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Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory. Lily would have been surprised to know how many trivial facts concerning herself were lodged in Miss Stepney's head.
'The supply of game for London is going steadily up, it ran. 'Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen pheasant's life. "I daresay my face looked as bewildered as yours did just now when first I read this message. Then I re-read it very carefully.
"You're it!" screamed Mrs. Givens as she pushed the minister over onto a sheet of fly-paper. "It yourself," shrieked Leathersham adroitly shoving a sheet where he saw Mrs. Givens would light next. Warble was certain she was a great reformer. Yet would these reformed people stay reformed?
"You see, he has been selling fly-paper for me all summer on commission, and I've had a chance to see the inner workings. People are always coming to me with some pleasant thing to say about him. He's certainly won the 'loving favour' of all he's had anything to do with, whether they were his customers or not, and the good name he has made for himself will stick to him all his life.
Come on nowsing up: Said the old Obadiah to the young Obadiah, 'I am dry, Obadiah, I am dry. Said the young Obadiah to the old Obadiah, 'So am I, Obadiah, so am I." They had dinner in the Moorish Grillroom of the Hotel Sedgwick. Somewhere, somehow, they seemed to have gathered in two other comrades: a manufacturer of fly-paper and a dentist.
He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-gray paper. "The supply of game for London is going steadily up," it ran. "Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life."
In telling stories about him, people often tried to imitate his smooth, senatorial voice, robust but never loud. Even when he was hilariously delighted by anything, as when poor Mahailey, undressing in the dark on a summer night, sat down on the sticky fly-paper, he was not boisterous. He was a jolly, easy-going father, indeed, for a boy who was not thin-skinned.
And one of my dogs would be apt at this crisis to pursue and slay a chicken or poison himself with fly-paper. I've known him, man and boy, for thirty years; you'll do well not to trust <i>him</i>!" Yet these same men who had so villified each other could be seen nightly lounging in front of the grocery, discussing politics and spitting in sweet unison.
"About two years ago I dropped into New York with a little fly-paper proposition about a Tennessee mica mine that I wanted to spread out in a nice, sunny window, in the hopes of catching a few. I was coming out of a printing-shop one afternoon with a batch of fine, sticky prospectuses when I ran against Denver coming round a corner. I never saw him looking so much like a tiger-lily.
Judge Drinkwater folded Daisy Snow's two little hands together, then wrapped them tightly in fly-paper, and shook with laughter to see her futile attempts to get free. "Naughty man!" she cried, "to make poor little me so helpless!" With a spring she flung her entangled hands over the Judge's head, and hung round his neck like a pretty little millstone.
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