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"But you must understand, I did! I took them home and turned them into the Cove. I know I'm an awful chump at this. There are things that I can do," he declared whimsically, "or I should want to kick myself to death. I can ladle out money the year round through a bank wicket and not be shy a cent at the end of the year.
Paula vanished into the porch with the rest; and, almost catching the wicket as it flew back from her hand, he too entered the high-shouldered edifice an edifice doomed to labour under the melancholy misfortune of seeming only half as vast as it really is, and as truly as whimsically described by Heine as a monument built with the strength of Titans, and decorated with the patience of dwarfs.
"Oh, very well, then, I won't," said Colville whimsically, as if that settled it. Mrs. Bowen would not talk of the matter any more; he could see that with her kindness, which was always more than her tact, she was striving to get away from the subject. As he really cared for it no longer, this made him persist in clinging to it; he liked this pretty woman's being kind to him.
She was wondering if he would ever be any less attractive to all women than he was now at forty-two or any better able to resist his own power. As she put her coffee cup back on the tiny table at her elbow, he leaned forward, and picked up a book which lay open on a chair near him, and carelessly glanced at it. "Schopenhauer," and he wrinkled his brows and glanced half whimsically down the page.
"But this is the last isn't it?" said Laura. "Yes," admitted Jadwin, with a quick, deep breath. "I'm done now. No more speculating. Let some one else have a try now. See if they can hold five million bushels till it's wanted. My, my, I am tired as I've said before. D'that tea come, Laura?" "What's that in your hand?" she answered, smiling. Jadwin stared at the cup and saucer he held, whimsically.
"I wish you would. Up to a very short time ago I thought you one of the most whimsically entertaining men I ever met, but as I said just now, a spiritual disparagement has arisen between us, a thick fog, and I wish you would clear the atmosphere." "Well," said Caruthers, "I am off. I don't know what to take with me," he added, looking about.
And then I read him that part of her postscript which had to do with himself. He put his head on one side like a great wise magpie, and "H'm ha!" said he whimsically, "aho! Gabord the soldier, Gabord, thou hast a good heart and the birds fed the beast with plums and froth of comfits till he died, and on his sugar tombstone they carved the words, 'Gabord had a good heart."
"I hope it will be a great picture." "Tell me about it." "I can tell you better, dear, when it is a little farther along." "You love your work, Ernestine. You have the real, true, fundamental love for it. I always loved to see your face light up when you spoke of your work. Is your face lighted up now?" he asked, a little whimsically, but earnestly.
Felicia tried them on, peering into a carved tortoise shell hand mirror, and giggled whimsically at the little flowered ones with lacy ties and the stuffy winter ones with velvet bows. "Miss Louisa was very handsome," Margot informed her, "My aunt says she was the handsomest girl she ever saw but very high-minded, very uppish!"
There's a path to her back door, worn there by fellows who would tremble like a colt in the presence of a lady." Dunwoodie frowned whimsically. "Don't say a path. It must be just a trail a more or less indistinct trail." Blanchard looked almost excited. "It's a path, I tell you!" And then both men laughed suddenly though in Dunwoodie's laughter there was a note of deprecation and regret.
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