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He had been finicking over his coloured shirts, handkerchiefs, and socks; a set of mauve, a set of blue, a set of grey; the brown set with the striped shirt; they were all awf'ly smart. Marie was so dainty, she liked a man to be smart, too. All he wanted was to please her. Rokeby came early, as quiet and lacklustre as ever.
She looked quite moved, for Julia; she held Marie at arm's length, stood off and surveyed her. "Well," she asked, "how are you?" "Very well, and awf'ly happy." Once more the kettle boiled on the gas-stove; once more toast baked under the grill; and the girls, one eager to tell, the other eager to listen, sat down on the hearthrug in the little dining-room to talk.
"To the pier, my Haddock, and then back to the turnpike gate, and if you let a yell, or signal a policeman, I'll twist your little neck. Fancy our Haddock in a vulgar street row with a common soldier and in the Police Court! Step it out, you worm!" Then the agonized Haddock dropped pretence. "Oh, Dam, I'm awf'ly sorry. I apologize, old chap.
Always have loved him, ever since that night years ago when he saved my father's life. Do you really truly love me, Dave?" "God knows I do," he said, almost in a whisper. "I'm glad oh, awf'ly glad." She gave him her hands, tears in her soft brown eyes. "Because I've been waiting for you so long. I didn't know whether you ever were coming to me." Crawford found them there ten minutes later.
"Ha that's the question! Over on Greylock the farmers' sons call him Shooting Star', alias 'Starry'," with a boyish laugh, "because when they were awf'ly hard up for a player in the last ball game of the series against Willard College, having lost their second baseman and substitute too, by gracious! he breezed along, an' the captain, hearing he had played on a college team, roped him in ... an' an', what do you know, but he won the game for that mountain team with a home run!
Gaddy, the little dicky-birds have been billing and cooing for ever so long; and I'm here! Most awf'ly good of you. 'Don't know what I should do without you. On my soul, I don't. 'Haven't slept a wink all night. CAPT. M. I didn't get in till half-past eleven. 'Had a look at you then, and you seemed to be sleeping as soundly as a condemned criminal.
"Honour," said Washer, "'l'honneur, die Ehre' duelling, unfaithful wives " He was clearly going to add to this, but it was lost; for the little fat man, taking the meerschaum with trembling fingers, and holding it within two inches of his chin, murmured: "You fellows, Berryman's awf'ly strong on honour." He blinked twice, and put the meerschaum back between his lips.
"W'en your back's at the wall, you do the best you can, don't you?" began the clerk. "I s'y that, because I 'appen to know there's a prejudice against it; it's considered vulgar, awf'ly vulgar." He unrolled the handkerchief and showed a four-ounce jar. "This 'ere's vitriol, this is," said he. The captain stared upon him with a whitening face. "This is the stuff!" he pursued, holding it up.
He sat on his wife's right hand, and the maid served them from the sideboard, an arrangement which pleased him because it saved him the trouble of carving, and also because it was rather smart, he thought, for home, where things generally tended to be dowdy. "I've had an awf'ly good time, this last year," he confided, "but I'm glad to be back.
The woman would have led again, but young Hallam cut in, none too courteously. "I say, Mamma, it's no good standing here, palaverin' like a lot of flats. Besides, I'm awf'ly knocked up. Let's get home and have it out there." Instantly his mother softened. "My poor boy!... Of course we'll go."
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