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Guess he went on to the next station a little farther, but it's easier driving, now they're dumping straw on the trail." "Putting straw on the road?" Edgar broke in. "Why are they doing that?" "You'll see, if you drive out north," the man answered shortly. Then he turned to his better-dressed companion. "What are you going to do with that carload of lumber we got for Grant?"
Young women of less pious aspect solicited the attention of the better-dressed travellers, and jugglers, mountebanks and quacks of every description hung on the outskirts of the square.
You see, my eyesight is better than yours and I could see the two men distinctly, whilst you could only see their figures. One of them, the better-dressed, was fair and obviously affluent, and the other was a labourer. Neither of them could in any way have answered the description of the missing man." Mr. Raymond Greene was a little dashed. "You didn't say so at the time," he complained.
Mr Rendal was disengaged. She rose and went into an inner room, where a big man was seated at a desk. It was Joe. There was no doubt about that. But it was not the Joe she remembered, he of the twisted ringers and silent stare. In his case, New York had conjured effectively. He was better-looking, better-dressed, improved in every respect.
Aileen imagined that she was the superior woman of the two, the better-looking, the better-dressed, hence the more ensnaring. "This is charming," he said, sinking down beside Rita. "What a fine evening! And the nice straw hat with the roses, and the nice linen dress. My, my!" The roses were red; the dress white, with thin, green ribbon run through it here and there.
You look more like Hercules than Falstaff now, sir, and if a coat can make a gentleman, a gentleman you are. Let me recommend you to sink the blue cravat, and take the stripes off your trousers. Dress quiet, sir; draw it mild. Plain waistcoat, dark trousers, black neckcloth, black hat, and if there's a better-dressed man in Europe to-morrow, I'm a Dutchman."
He directed the attention of his women towards me, and I saw that they were attempting to titter and sneer at my expense; but the effort was a total failure, for there was not a better-dressed person in the house than I was.
Society of that day boasted few better-dressed men than Zephyr Wetherley. His judgment in a case of cravat was unerring. He had been in Europe, and was quoted when waistcoats were in debate. He had been very attentive to Mr. Alfred Dinks and Mr. Bowdoin Beacon, the two Boston youths who had been charming society during the season that was now over. He was even a little jealous of Mr. Dinks.
There, in the "mow," while we devise bitter and futile conspiracies against society, the mare, munching her fodder, looks up at us with patient eyes, as if to say: "Am I not also mortified for the faith?" But we are cut to the heart to think that Margot may contrast us with better-dressed boys, and therefore think us of little spirit, learning, and courage.
It was an odd little place, equipped with several booths, each containing a table and seats for four persons. "We'll take the booth away down at the end of the room, where we won't be seen by better-dressed people," proposed Dave. Accordingly they occupied the last booth in the row. There they ordered a meal that made their mouths water in advance.
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