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Do you want us to undress and go to bed?" And with that she brushed Katie aside and proceeded on her way. A dapper little man in a dress-suit, the only man anywhere in sight, popped out from behind a great palm and demanded, "Name, please, madam?" Elizabeth regarded him with awe. He represented the zenith point of Estella's ambition.
The head-waiter was a college student, and a perfect gentleman; he was always dressed up in a dress-suit and a white silk neck-tie. Statira said that next summer she wanted they should go off somewhere, she and 'Manda Grier, and wait on table together; and she knew Lemuel could easily get the head-waiter's place, after the St. Albans.
And the alderman, jolly but still aldermanic, produced his revolver, proving that it went even with his dress-suit. "Look here," said one. "Is it loaded?" "Of course," said the alderman. "Ball cartridge?" "Of course," said the alderman. "Well, would you mind putting it back in your pocket with all this wine and whisky about " The alderman complied, proud.
"For five seconds I was the happiest man in the United States. I I did everything you said, you know, and I was dumfounded at my own success. S-s-she loves me, Westoby." I gazed inquiringly at the dress-suit case. "We don't belong to any common Joneses. We're Connecticut Joneses.
As soon as the doors opened the men came in and the place was jammed to the limit. The meeting was opened with prayer, then the sandwiches and tea were passed around. The Count, wearing a dress-suit, was sitting on the platform. I introduced him as the "man of the hour" who had given the lay-out to the boys. They thanked him with three cheers.
But Leonora saw quite near, in another corner, Ethel talking to Fred Ryley; she noticed how awkward Fred looked in his new dress-suit, and she liked him for his awkwardness; it seemed to her that Ethel was very beautiful. Arthur pointed out Rose, who was standing up with the lady member of the School Board.
Baxter laughed a laugh that chilled the supplicant through and through. "At your age I thought I was lucky if I had ANY suit that was fit to be seen in. You're too young, Willie. I don't want you to get your mind on such stuff, and if I have my way, you won't have a dress-suit for four years more, anyhow." "Father, I GOT to have one. I got to have one right away!"
As they crossed the lobby of the hotel they almost ran into a big, burly young fellow who was coming in the opposite direction. "Dan Baxter!" ejaculated Dick. "Then I was right after all." The burly young fellow stared first at Dick and then the others in blank amazement. He carried a dress-suit case, and this dropped from his hand to the floor.
I dare say I should understand the mechanism of a dress-suit, even if I'd never seen one," said the man, amused, yet impressed by her argument. "I've always had visions of women dressed in this kind of clothing, white women never natives not dressed like this exactly, but in dainty, soft things, not at all like the ones I wear.
So there in readiness lay the hired dress-suit, the Major's gleaming linen, and the other necessaries of evening attire. Coogan leisurely donned the unaccustomed plumage, paying as much attention to his toilet as a debutante when arraying herself for her first cotillion.
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