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Alymer did not look any too pleased at Hal's frank appellation, but former remonstrance had only been met with derision, and he knew he had no choice but to submit with a good grace. "I might ask the same question, Lady-Clerk," he replied. "Don't call me a lady-clerk I hate the term. I'm a typist, secretary, bachelor-girl, city-worker, anything you like, not a lady-clerk bah!..."
He was so unconscious of this that, on the twelfth anniversary of her incarceration beneath the stock-balcony, he commissioned his mother to shop her a crown of thorns in the form of a gold-handled umbrella with a bachelor-girl flash-light attachment. There are men like that, to whom life is not only a theosophy of one God, but of one women who is sufficient thereof.
She lived in bachelor-girl apartments with a lot of artists, and they say they were pretty lively. And Miss Cohen is going to be married, ain't coming back any more after this year. Some of us thought we could work it so as the new principal Hoff's his name would ask to have you transferred back to one of those places. There's just a chance. Now I've told all my news and everything!"
Falling in love is pure dissipation to one of my temperament, and I have too many contracts to fill. I'm afraid of your sailor-man. Think of the character you built about him to-day in this room. If he didn't prove up to that, what a pity for us all! And if he did, what a pity for poor Beth, if he started coming here!... Anyway, I've ceased to be a bachelor-girl.
For, much as she liked George, her hesitation to become his wife and renounce the bachelor-girl career to which, since her last birthday her twenty-fifth she had felt herself committed, was a sort of indefinable suspicion as to the real integrity of his standards.
I merely remark on the notable fact that only one of these victims, the Maidenhead girl, is described as having any home or parents. All the rest are boarders or birds of passage a guest, a solitary dressmaker, a bachelor-girl doing typewriting.
"You shall judge," said Peters, who waited until his audience was in strained attention before opening his story. "The names are, of course, disguises." Mrs. Rita Kildair inhabited a charming bachelor-girl studio, very elegant, of the duplex pattern, in one of the buildings just off Central Park West.
And on this particular night, she had invited her six bachelor-girl friends, who were in her confidence, to come and share its hospitalities with her.
Were she to become his wife, it would be necessary to give up the Settlement work in which she had become deeply interested as the result of her activities as a bachelor-girl. She must be certain that he was all she believed him to be before she admitted that she loved him and burned her philanthropical bridges.
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