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Updated: June 16, 2025
He come here one day last week about ten in the morning, said his doctor told him to go out 'en the country for his health. He's stuck up and citified, and wears gloves, and takes his meals private in his room, and all that sort of ruck.
The next day passed without any incidents save trivial ones that did not count. Lance rode to the creek with his trout-rod and reel more citified innovations which the ranch eyed askance and spent four hours loitering along the bank, his fly floating uselessly over shallow pools where was never a fish.
Along Broadway, beyond a huddle of merry-go-rounds and peanut stands, a row of shops had sprung up, as it were, overnight; they were shiny, trim, citified shops, looking a trifle strange now in this half-transformed setting, but sure to have plenty of neighbours before long.
She felt more cheerful, and when she came to a choice of frocks, decidedly a new current of interest was stealing through life again. First impressions were so terribly important! She wanted to do honor to the Blairs to justify the hopes of Mamma. This was not enough of an occasion for the white mull. The silks look hot and citified.
Him an' Mink, the barber, keep runnin' each other to see who can get the most citified things. No sooner'd Zittelhof get his pulleys than Mink, he put in shower-baths. An' when Mink bought a buzz fan, Zittelhof sent for the lavender cloth to spread over 'em before the coffin comes. It makes it rill nice for Friendship. "'Who's goin to get down in? says Mis' Toplady, shakin' out the cloth.
"Rebecca," he continued, after a moment's pause, "who is that young girl with a lot of pretty red hair and very citified manners? She escorted me down the hill; do you know whom I mean?" "It must be Huldah Meserve; she is from Riverboro." Adam put a finger under Rebecca's chin and looked into her eyes; eyes as soft, as clear, as unconscious, and childlike as they had been when she was ten.
Dave scented patronage in his "citified" air; he and other young men at the table young men who helped about the farm resented everything about the stranger from the self-satisfied poise of his head to the aggressive gloss on his riding-boots. "Why, Dave," said Kate to her cousin in an undertone, "you look positively fierce. If I had a particle of vanity I should say you were jealous."
Stannard was the only man who really knew very much about him as a cavalry officer, and Stannard's opinion was what brought it all about. They had served for some months at the same post, and both the major and his clear-sighted wife had taken a fancy to the young officer, whose first appearance in "citified garb and a pince-nez" gave little promise of future usefulness in the field.
You've lived in cities some, an' know how citified things go. Con-twist it, Ethel, there's things in the bunch that neither I ner Nick Thorne ever hearn tell of, much less knowin' what they're used for." The girl laughed. "When are the folks coming?" she asked. "When I git things in shape. They've sent some money down to pay fer what's done, so you won't have to work fer nuthin'."
And Dinky-Dunk appeared in Lady Alicia's car, in her car, carefully togged out in his Sunday best, with that strangely alien aspect which citified clothes can give to the rural toiler when he emerges from the costume of his kind. But it wasn't merely that he came arrayed in this outer shell of affluence and prosperity.
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