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While all these matters were in progress, we received frequent visits from our Indian friends. First and foremost among them was "the young Dandy," Four-Legs. One fine morning he made his appearance, accompanied by two squaws, whom he introduced as his wives. He could speak a little Chippewa, and by this means he and our mother contrived to keep up something of a conversation.
"As I understand the affair," Hampton continued, as she paused for breath, "it was Lieutenant Brant who suggested the idea of his coming to me. Brant knew Gillis, and remembered you, and realizing your unpleasant situation, thought such an arrangement would be for your benefit." "Brant!" she burst forth in renewed anger; "he did, did he! The putty-faced dandy!
Sheppard looking round alarmed, as her son is robbing the dandy Kneebone, is charming, simple, and unaffected. Not so "Mrs. Sheppard ill in bed," whose face is screwed up to an expression vastly too tragic.
Now if that mental telepathy were working right now it would be handing the things passing in your head something like this: 'Why in hell can't that damned dope merchant, and that dandy woman who don't know better than to waste her time being his wife, come right along and fix something so Nita and the kiddie ain't left lonesome and unprotected while I'm away. That's the kind of message I'd be getting from you.
He hoped to draw six thousand francs from the mistress who, according to her usual custom, could not fail to buy from him what he called his idea. The dandy was thoughtful; he was preparing his batteries.
And the lips, so used to close upon the wine-cup, in laughter so often parted, they do not seem immobile, even now. Sad that one so prodigally endowed as he was, with the three essentials of a dandy physical distinction, a sense of beauty and wealth or, if you prefer the term, credit should not have done greater things.
Here, throw that by, it's could, and I'll get you something hot and comfortable." "Go on," replied Dandy; "I hate idleness. Get the eggs and rasher you spake of, and while you're doin' it I'll thry and amuse myself wid what's before me. Industhry's the first of virtues, Nancy, and next to that comes perseverance; I defy you in the mane time to do a rasher as well as you did this ham hoeh och och.
But what if the Greeks had told him, in so many words, that they despised HIM? How would he have felt then? Would he have been content with his potations of barley-water?... The Duke replenished his glass, hoping the spell might work yet.... Perhaps, had Byron not been a dandy but ah, had he not been in his soul a dandy there would have been no Byron worth mentioning.
"Oh look at the house, it's all ruined like Reims Cathedral," Pee-wee shouted. This, indeed, was its only point of resemblance to Reims Cathedral. "Come on inside," he continued, leading the way, "it's a dandy place, it's all caving in." "I suppose they want about a thousand dollars a month rent for this place," said Westy Martin.
Says his lordship to me, 'Dandy, says he, 'find out where she goes to, and you and every one that helps you to do so, is a made man." "Ha, ha!" exclaimed the driver, with glee, "is that it? Come, then here's at you they're off."
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