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Updated: June 27, 2025
In a fair wind and a charmin' day like this, I never coiled up on the deck for a nap in my life, that I had'nt pleasant dreams.
"They're surely not going to make a show of him!" he thought. Mrs. Dennant was writing, in a dark-blue dress starred over with white spots, whose fine lawn collar was threaded with black velvet. "Have you seen the new hybrid Algy's brought me back from Kidstone? Is n't it charmin'?" and she bent her face towards this perfect rose.
Shelton was lost in admiration of Ferrand's manner in this scene.. Its subtle combination of deference and dignity was almost paralysing; paralysing, too, the subterranean smile upon his lips. "Charmin' young man, Dick," said Mrs. Dennant, when Shelton lingered to say once more that he knew but very little of him; "I shall send a note round to Mrs. Robinson at once.
The centre panel depicters a orchard covered with bright green grass, and graceful female wimmen a-gatherin' apples offen the tree. Apples of knowledge, I spoze, but different from Eve's fur different; these wuz peaceful Knowledge, Literature, Art, and all beautiful and useful industries. A smaller panel describes Music and Dancin' in a charmin' way.
He says he's goin' to remember th' place and come back when he's old. A charmin' retreat fer supernumerary superannuates, he calls it. Them's his woids. I'm gittin' sort o' nervous havin' 'im round. Zimmerman he's the clothes-presser tried to talk Goiman to 'im this mornin' an' th' guy pretended like his feelin's wuz hoit, an' he never knowed th' Hun's language, he says.
'But, my dear Major, said Lady Castlerich, trying to get past him, 'your house is charmin', the drawing-room is perfectly charmin', I don't know a more charmin' room. 'The room is well enough, it is what one hears in the room. 'Hears in the room! Major, I'm sure our conversation has been most agreeable.
"'I'm afther charmin' a burd out iv a three; 'tis a way I have, says I, shovin' in a fresh cartridge from my waistcoat pocket, fair an' aisy, an' kapin' me back to the haystack. "'Was it you kilt the jackdaw? says he. "''Twas meself, says I, 'that did it, says I. "'An' ye carry a murdherin' thing like that in a paceful counthry, says he. ''Tis yer American thrainin' says he, sneerin'.
Then came Spring in earnest, and that real business of life the racing of horses 'on the flat, when Johnny Dromore's genius was no longer hampered by the illegitimate risks of 'jumpin'. He came to dine with them the day before the first Newmarket meeting. He had a soft spot for Sylvia, always saying to Lennan as he went away: "Charmin' woman your wife!"
"Sago sago," cried my uncle, as we came quite near, seeing no risk in using that familiar semi-Indian salutation. "Sago, sago, dis charmin' mornin; in my tongue, dat might be guten tag."
"I was smitten first with Kate Sharp, the Applewoman, in consideration of her charmin' method of giving me credit for fruit when I was a school-boy, and had no money. I thought her a very interesting woman, I assure you, and preferred my suit to her With signal success. I say signal, for you know she was then, as she is now, very hard of hearing, and I was forced to pay my suit to her by signs."
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