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Updated: July 23, 2025
"I suppose I couldn't very well prevent you, if you were sure to put on a three-cent stamp." "Do you want me to?" persisted Orde. She began gently to laugh, quite to herself, as though enjoying a joke entirely within her own personal privilege. "You are so direct and persistent and boy-like," said she presently.
Then there was the fearful, great boa-constrictor ... which turned out to be a double-jointed, lithe, acrobatic, boy-like girl whom we knew as Jessie ... Jessie, they whispered, was marked for death by consumption, if she didn't look out and stop smoking so many cigarettes ... she was slender and pretty but spoke with an adenoidal thickness of speech.
After it is over any who like can do private trading. They offer for barter all sorts of things, sometimes even the moccasins which they are actually wearing. William got a coat for his pair the other day; on another occasion, boy-like, he got a big pair of boots which he is most proud of, but which are of very little use to him.
Fran rode in a sort of stilly rapture. Soames said: "Not worried, Fran?" Fran shook his head. Then, boy-like, he turned on the transistor radio to show his nonchalance. A voice spoke. He'd have shifted to music but Soames caught a word or two. "Hold it!" he commanded. "Put it so I can hear!" Fran raised the volume and held the small radio so Soames could hear it above the motor-noise.
Afterwards, at his son's urgent request, he had bared his chest to show us his tattooing of which Jack had, boy-like, often boasted to us. I recalled how we had gazed admiringly at the skilfully worked picture of Nelson with his empty sleeve and closed eye and the inscription underneath: "England expects that every man this day will do his duty."
"Then it's done it before?" asked Charlie, in no wise moved by the knowledge of his past danger, but, boy-like, rather enjoying the novelty of his position, halfway down the shaft of the mine, and lodged like a fly on the wall, with only a narrow beam between himself and a fall of four or five hundred feet. "Once," answered Mr. Everett, amused, in spite of his anxiety, by the boy's coolness.
Boy-like, I was absorbed in this. Our little mountain cabin would almost have gone into this one room. The candles threw their flickering rays upward until they danced on the high ceiling. Marvel of marvels, in the oval left clear by the heavy, rounded cornice was a picture. The negro set down the candles on the marble top of a table.
He gave a last look at the town and its white-fanged mountains, and descended through the garden, round the way of the kitchen garden and garage and stables and pecking chickens, back to the house again. In the hall still no one. He went upstairs to the long lounge. There sat the rubicund, bald, boy-like Colonel reading the Graphic.
As he did so, the wild-cat, thinking herself about to be deprived of her prey, sprang at him. With one hand holding the pot of water, which, boy-like, he did not want to spill, and the other grasping the rabbit, Wilbur was terribly handicapped.
The lieutenant looked as if he would have liked to ask Clarice to accompany us; but she was busy about her household duties, and gave no response to his unspoken invitation. Boy-like, I took a great fancy to the young officer. He was quiet and gentlemanly, and free from all conceit.
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