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Updated: May 21, 2025
Years ago an artist cousin had sketched her portrait in pastel crayons upon the color-wash of the wall. It had been done as a mere artistic freak, but like many such spontaneous drawings it had been an admirable likeness and a very pretty picture. It bore her name, "Ingred," in flourishy letters underneath. The whole of this had now been protected with a sheet of glass and enclosed by a frame.
Some one had only sometimes to put in a penny for a stamp and the whole thing was upon her. She was so absurdly constructed that these were literally the moments that made up made up for the long stiffness of sitting there in the stocks, made up for the cunning hostility of Mr. Buckton and the importunate sympathy of the counter-clerk, made up for the daily deadly flourishy letter from Mr.
It is a pity such a metamorphosis does not occur in reality; for the wretched oblong envelope, with the sprawly, flourishy writing, so unmistakably suggests a bill, that you well, I do not know what you do on such an occasion; my letter, which I have been so anxious to obtain, is flung to the other side of the room. How is it that bills mount up so quickly?
Granger, and wasn't that also precisely where one would look for them on the eve of a smash? Pemberton gathered that Mr. Granger was a rich vacant American a big bill with a flourishy heading and no items; so that one of Paula's "ideas" was probably that this time she hadn't missed fire by which straight shot indeed she would have shattered the general cohesion.
I can't abide to hear folks talk nonsense. Who's at Elmfield?" "Ain't nary one there that had ought to be there; nary one but the help." "But they're comin'?" said Mrs. Starling, lifting up her head for the answer. "Wall, I can't say. Evan, he's too fur; and I guess men in his place hain't their ch'ice. And his folks is flourishy kind o' bodies; I don't set no count on 'em, for my part."
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