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Good heavens, no! Too much sense hang it, you know what I mean! It would never suit him. Can't imagine such a thing. He gets more and more booky. Has his open-air moods, too, and amuses me with his Jingoism. So different from his old ways of talking; but I didn't care much about him in those days.
Tell her I was laid up with one of my bad heads.... No? You won't let me fib? Horrid old thing come and kiss me!... Ah, you never refuse to kiss me, nice cave man with bad manners and muddy shoes, wanting to thump his strong dear fists on my little Chippendale tables and grow so good and booky all in an instant.
And keep on the other side of the street from the woman's righter as long as you can. Alas! your daughter will be one." "Well, isn't there any classifying on the other side? Aren't there horsemen and sporting men and booky men, in the feminine mind?" "Perhaps so.
On this balmy holiday it seemed almost like school; it had a booky, studious atmosphere which turned him against it. And to complete this impression and make the place abhorrent to him there sat Miss Bunting, the history teacher, in a corner of the reference room with several books spread about her. To Pee-wee on Saturday morning this seemed nothing less than an insult.
Leavitt not only had on the costume, but he had the lines too. Sounded a little booky in spots maybe; but he was right there with the whole bag of chatty tricks, the polite salute for the hostess, a neat little epigram when it come his turn to fill in the talk, a flash or so of repartee, and an anecdote that got a good hand all round the table.
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