United States or Montserrat ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
A white figure advancing along this path, proved to be nothing more ghostly than Mr Boffin, easily attired for the pursuit of knowledge, in an undress garment of short white smock-frock. 'Mrs Boffin, Wegg, said Boffin, 'is a highflyer at Fashion. And her make is such, that she does it credit. As to myself I ain't yet as Fash'nable as I may come to be.
You see, I guess them fash'nable fellers sorter got to runnin' her about me, and so she put our acquaintance on a square business footing. I tell you, she's a right peart gal. Did ye hear of the accident that happened to her?" I had not. "Well, you see, she was out yachting, and I managed through one of those fellers to get an invite, too.
The' was quite a fair one then," he explained; "but it burned up, an' wa'n't never built up agin because it had got not to be thought the fash'nable thing to put up there. Mr. Harum stopped and looked at his companion thoughtfully for a moment, as if something had just occurred to him.
"That's good from YOU, miss," said Dick, giving way to a fit of hilarity. "That's good for a fash'nable young lady own daughter of Philip Carr. She sez, says she," continued Dick, appealing to the sedate pines for appreciation of Christie's rare humor, "'Wot's the use of a flume, when gold ain't there? I must tell that to the boys."
"Say, ain't it against the law fer a man to marry a woman when he's already got one wife?" "It is," said Michael, "unless he gets a divorce." "Well, I ain't goin' to give him no divorce, you bet!" said the girl fiercely. "I worked hard enough to get a real marriage an' I ain't goin' to give up to no fash'nable swell. I'm's good's she is, an' I've got my rights an I'll hev 'em.
"No?" murmured Faraday, mightily surprised, and wondering what she was going to say next. "Not exactly," continued Miss. Ryan, moistening her red under lip in a pondering moment "not exactly in fash'nable society. Of course we have our friends. But gentlemen from the East that I've met have always been so surprised when I told them that I didn't go out in the most fash'nable circles.
"Now if I goes, or you goes and sez to 'im: 'Passon, there's fash'nable folks from Lunnon comin' 'ere to look at ye an' listen to ye, an' for all we kin tell make mock o' ye as well as o' the Gospel itself in their 'arts' d'ye think he'd be any the better for it? No, Tummas, no! I say leave Passon alone. Don't upset 'im.
I wanted a gray rig, like that Miss Ross had on, but I couldn't get none to fit, an' the young lady told me 't black was dredful fash'nable now, so I got this rig; an' 'twas lucky I did ter-day. What could she mean by this diversion? I was growing uneasy when she uttered the last words. 'Yes? I said feebly. 'I s'pose you wonder what I'm drivin' at? she queried.
He did not regret the untasted liquor; here was an experience in after years to lean his back against comfortably in bar-rooms, to entrance or defy mankind. He had even got so far as to formulate in fancy the sentence: "I remember, gentlemen, that one afternoon, being on a pasear with two fash'nable young ladies," etc., etc.
"In the dear old cabin," said Christie quickly; "I remember it; I wish we were there now." "Do you really? Do you?" said Whiskey Dick, with suddenly twinkling eyes. "That's like you to say it. That's what I allus said," continued Dick, addressing space generally; "if there's any one ez knows how to come square down to the bottom rock without flinchin', it's your high-toned, fash'nable gals.
Word Of The Day