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Updated: May 26, 2025
The following day being Sunday, was given over to rest and recreation and the writing of letters, until late in the afternoon. The day dawned clear but very warm. There was very little breeze stirring, and the spar and gun decks, where we spent the most of our time, were almost stifling. "Corking mats," as they are termed in naval parlance, were very much in evidence.
Keineth's clear, straightforward gaze made Billy drop his eyes in sudden shame. "Play square," she said sternly. And Billy played square! Their opponents had not a chance! "Well, Billy did wake up," some one said and some one else added: "If they'd lost it would have been his fault. That Randolph girl played a corking game for her age!" They had won the tennis tournament!
"Was it a very big ship that you came over in?" "No, not so very big, but she's about as fast as anything in her class, and a corking sea-boat." "What's her name?" "Her name?" repeated Bellew, "well, she was called the er 'Silvia." "That's an awful' pretty name for a ship." "Hum! so so, but I have learned a prettier, and next time she puts out to sea we'll change her name, eh, my Porges?"
It was now called, "Pass Along, Please!" and, according to its authors, was a real revue. Roland was to learn, as the days went on, that in the world in which he was moving everything was real revue that was not a stunt or a corking effect. He floundered in a sea of real revue, stunts, and corking effects.
"One would think you admired them and their military system," remarked the Critic, a bit crest-fallen at the attack. "I may not, but I'll tell you one sure thing if you want a good circus you've got to train your animals. The Kaiser has been a corking ringmaster."
Freddie resumed the conversation. "I was just reading a corking book. Have you ever read these things? They come out every month, and they're corking. The fellow who writes them must be a corker. It beats me how he thinks of these things. They are about a detective a chap called Gridley Quayle. Frightfully exciting!" An obvious remedy for dumbness struck Aline. "Shall I read to you, Freddie?"
'They are going to be married. 'Exactly. 'Ray and I are going to be married. 'I suppose so. 'Bertie, old man, I feel immense. I look round me, and everything seems to be absolutely corking. The change in the mater is marvellous. She is twenty-five years younger. She and old Danby are talking of reviving "Fun in a Tea-Shop", and going out on the road with it. I got up.
Granted, on the part of Madame; with a proviso, That as the curtains of that bed are of a flimsy transparent cotton, and appear likewise too scanty to draw close, that the fille de chambre shall fasten up the opening, either by corking pins, or needle and thread, in such manner as shall be deem'd a sufficient barrier on the side of Monsieur. 2dly.
"You won't fail," assured Drouet. "Just act as you do around here. Be natural. You're all right. I've often thought you'd make a corking good actress." "Did you really?" asked Carrie. "That's right," said the drummer. He little knew as he went out of the door that night what a secret flame he had kindled in the bosom of the girl he left behind.
And I suppose you've always known how to do those corking fine embroideries that the priests are so stuck on? But how did you learn? And how does it come that you look like a dead swell? And where did you get those hands like a saint in a stained-glass window? And that hair? I'll bet you anything you like you're a princess in disguise." "I'm your princess, dear," she smiled.
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