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Nor I. And, take it from me, it's some ride from the Tarleton down to Pier 9, East River. First thing next morning Mr. Robert wants to know how the reunion passed off, and he listens bug-eyed as I describes the way we rung in on the dinner-party with Gladys. "The deuce you did!" says he. "Just like Warrie to do that, though.
This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months. "Listen to him!" you howl. "Didn't tell him! Why you gangle-legged bug-eyed soft-handed pop-eared tenderfoot, you! there are some things you never THINK of telling a man. I never told you to open your mouth to spit, either.
Then I slips out to where Vincent is waitin'. "Buildin' on fire?" says I. "Why, no, sir," says be, goin' bug-eyed. "Oh!" says I. "Then who you got waitin' out there Secretary Daniels or the Czar of Russia?" Vincent pinks up like a geranium and smiles shy, like he always does when he's kidded. "If you please, sir," says he, "it's only a lady; to see Mr. Mason, sir."
And, say, that's my last stab at givin' off the wise stuff about the nose powderin' sex. Pos-itively. For I've seen Louise turn the clock back. Uh-huh! I can't tell how it was done, or go into details of the results, but when she sails into that front pew on the big day, with Dick Harrington trailin' behind, I takes one glance at her and goes bug-eyed. Was she a stunner? I'll gurgle so.
I'd noticed him around the lot on different sets; something about him that makes you look a second time. I don't know what it is-kind of innocent and bug-eyed the way he'd rubber at things, but all the time like as if he thought he was someone. Well, I keep running across him and pretty soon I notice he's up against it.
It ain't often, either, that I can spring anything on her that leaves her stunned and bug-eyed. "Why, Torchy!" says she, gaspy. "How in the world did you ever manage it? I I don't understand." "Oh, very simple!" says I. "It's all in havin' the right kind of neighbors." "But you don't mean," says she, "that you persuaded some of our oh, I'm sure you never could. Besides, you're grinning.
And, sure enough, I got the notion, or it got me. Chee! I near slid off the rattan seat when I reads that note. Guess I must have sat there, starin' bug-eyed and lookin' batty, from 14th to Wall. Do you know what that mush-head of a Piddie was at?
Their expressions ran the gamut from sheepishness to blank haughtiness. MacDonald bug-eyed. "Dean ... Rosetti ... the Temple priests burned you at the stake!" They grinned at him, shamefaced. "Guess not," Dean said. "We were kidnaped. We've been teaching basic science, in some phony monastery." Watson's face was white. "Joe," he said. "Yeah," Joe Chessman growled. "You sold me out.
Max, who had largely been staring bug-eyed out the window at the passing scene, said, "Hey, the car's stopping. Is this it?"
"'S a' right, Governor," he goes on, "'s a' right. Been givin' lil' lu-luncheon to for'n rep'sen'tives. Put 'em all out but An-Andorvski, and he's nothing but a fish deuced Russian fish. Eh, Droski?" Believe me, with J. Q. Hubbard turnin' purple in the gills, and all them cheap foreigners lookin' on bug-eyed, it wa'n't any humorous scene.
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