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"The girls were up at four this morning, packing her trunks, sister," replied Miss Jemima; "we have made her a bow-pot." "Say a bouquet, sister Jemima, 'tis more genteel." "Well, a booky as big almost as a hay-stack; I have put up two bottles of the gillyflower-water for Mrs. Sedley, and the receipt for making it, in Amelia's box."
I am afraid all that is at an end, unless you can find a girl with money, which of course you ought to have no difficulty in doing, with your advantages. "But it is no good writing. Come to-morrow, and wire your train. "Your loving father, ARTHUR FALLODEN." "'Ruined on the threshold of life' what does he mean?" thought Falloden impatiently. "Father always likes booky phrases like that.
Murray was suddenly dragged away by a current in the mob which set towards a book-maker who had chalked up "even money, Maid Marian." I followed long enough to see the "booky" change again to "4 to 5" before Murray reached him; and then, believing myself about to be crushed to death, I forced my way to the edge of the ring and stood hoping that my friend would do likewise.
You were saying that it was a shame of a man to complain of his wife flirting," and the General studied the ceiling. "You know that I never said anything of the kind; some women are flirty in a nice way, just as some are booky, and some are dressy, and some are witty, and some are horsey; and I think a woman should be herself.
Upon a train of incidents, as unconnected as life itself, we are wont to clap a booky ending. We would like to have life "turn out" but it doesn't it doesn't. Each event is the beginning of a whole new genealogy of events. In boyhood I remember asking after every story I heard: "What happened next?" for no conclusion ever quite satisfied me even when the hero died in his own gore.
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience. In Milan we spent most of our time in the vast and beautiful Arcade or Gallery, or whatever it is called.
The boys, moreover, like so great a variety of books that, in order to please them, it is not necessary to select a book that is not "booky." Their parents are lovers of great literature. "I cannot bring myself to buy a book about how to make an aeroplane, for instance," their mother said to me one day, "when there are so many wonderful books they have not read, and would enjoy reading!
"I do not mean swat," rejoined the experienced Oswald. "I want to know all about real things, not booky things. If you kids had known about electric bells you wouldn't have " Oswald stopped, and then said, "I won't say any more, because Father says a gentleman does not support his arguments with personal illusions to other people's faults and follies."
The older men stared at her more persistently than the younger ones, who liked their own sort and not girls who looked as if they might be "booky" and "spring things on a fellow."
Rode my bay oss Desperation in the park. Sir John's carridge there in coarse. Miss Hemly lets fall her booky as I pass, and I'm obleged to get hoff and pick it hup, & get splashed up to the his. The gettin on hossback agin is halways the juice & hall.
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