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'Well, one thing is certain: Professor Pinnie never knew the STATE of his own flora, or at least he kept his wife sorting and arranging his specimens all the time; and I think he's a regular old frump, said Polly, irreverently, but meeting Aunt Truth's reproving glance, which brought a blush and a whispered 'Excuse me, she went on, 'Well, what I mean is, he doesn't know any more than other people, after all; for he cares for nothing but bushes and herbs and seeds and shrubs and roots and stamens and pistils; and he can't tell whether a flower is lovely or not, he is so crazy to find out where it belongs and tie a tag round it.
Let me leave the house, my dear. I daresay it was good half my fault. Young women don't understand men sufficient not altogether and I was a young woman then; and then what they goes and does they ain't quite answerable for: they, feels, I daresay, pushed from behind. Yes. I'll go. I'm a frump. I'll go. 'Tain't in natur' for me to sleep in the same house." Lucy laid her hands on Mrs.
Paulina was already on her knees, removing the boots and accommodating a pair of slippers to the little feet. "We might as well be in a desert island," continued Vera, "shut up from everything with an old frump." "Take care," said Agatha, in warning, signing towards Thekla. "I am sure she looks jolly and good-natured," said Paulina.
Frump, to think of the friends whom we knew many, many years ago, who no longer live to greet us on this festal day?" The speaker alluded to mankind at large. Mrs. Frump responded tartly, that she could not speak from experience, of course, but she presumed that Mr. Overtop's opinion was correct. And again she glanced at Maltboy. Mr.
Her mistake had only been, after all, in her wanting to seem to him straight; she had let herself in for being as she had made haste, for that matter, during the very first half-hour, at tea, to proclaim herself the sole and single frump of the party.
Her first distinct answer was, "My dear! tell me candid, how do I look?" "Very nice indeed, Mrs. Berry; but could you have believed he would be so kind, so considerate?" "I am sure I looked a frump," returned Mrs. Berry. "Oh dear! two birds at a shot. What do you think, now?" "I never saw so wonderful a likeness," says Lucy. "Likeness! look at me." Mrs. Berry was trembling and hot in the palms.
The man who can eat on his wedding day is a vulgarian, and dead to the finer feelings." They found a secluded table and ordered something, and when the waitress had taken the order and departed, Bob leaned across the table. "You're so beautiful!" he repeated. "I love you in that white suit." "I hadn't anything but this old thing, dear. I hated to come up looking like a frump "
"As if anything good were worth while when it has to be guarded and put in leg-irons and handcuffs in order to keep it good. Your desire for a chaperone as much as implies that I am that sort of creature. I prefer to be good because it is good to be good, rather than because I can't be bad because some argus-eyed old frump won't let me have a chance to be bad." "But it it is not that," he put in.
Your brother is, too, isn't he? I shouldn't think they would be at all in the same set!" The Percival girls looked at each other and smiled. "Poor old Ralph! Isn't she blighting? You don't know anything about him, you know. It's only because he called you a frump, but never mind, he has to be back to tea to look after some work for father, and then he'll see!
The adaptability of the graduation gown was wonderful and although Lydia knew that she was only a little frump compared with the other girls, Billy, who took her each time, always wore the dress suit! So she shone happily in reflected elegance. In the second place, three men called on her regularly Billy, Kent and Professor Willis.
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