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Updated: June 10, 2025
'My friend, Betty Millen, has positively made herself a frump at five-and-twenty. We practically quarrelled over it. I don't think people have any right to do that sort of thing. It is not fair to their friends. Seriously, I do regard it as an actual duty for every one to cherish and preserve her youth. 'And his youth, too? I asked.
"Hold on to her," said the carpenter. "She will come to in a minute." "Who, sir who on earth are you?" shouted Matthew, struggling under the burdensome widow and a sense of mental bewilderment. "I am Amos Frump," he replied, in a voice which had suddenly risen five notes. "The widow's husband! The dead come to life!" exclaimed Matthew, starting back, and nearly dropping the inanimate form.
I couldn't help seeing that the dreadful dress made my skin pearly white; and I was afraid that, when I had altered the thing, instead of looking like a frump, I should only present the appearance of a rather fast little actress. I should be looked at in my scarlet abomination. People would stare, and smile.
"Exactly eleven, Clemmy," said she. "Gusty Frump," returned Miss Whedell, with some warmth, "you ought to be ashamed of yourself! We have had fifty callers, to my certain knowledge." "I presume you are right," said Mrs. Frump, with a smile that irradiated the whole of her fat face, and again imparted the idea that Miss Whedell was wrong.
Doing so he saw an old woman draw back the curtain and look down upon him as if searching for him with a purpose. He uttered an exclamation of anger. "Damnation! Mother Posset again," he said. "What does she there, old frump?"
"Rather better actor than carpenter, I guess," said Mr. Frump. "Perhaps so," said old Van Quintem; "but a financier of your talent needn't act, or mend railings, for a living. I should like to know, now, how you made your money in California. Nine out of ten who go there, come back poorer than they went."
"Ye may guess I did na sleep that night; and wi' the first light, down wi' me to my aunt, as fast as my two legs cud carry me. "Well my aunt did na frump or flite me, as I thought she would, but she held me by the hand, and looked hard in my face all the time. And she telt me not to be feared; and says she: "'Hed the appearance a key in its hand?
Father Daly is such a little frump." "That will do, children; I cannot really allow our chaplain to be spoken of in that manner." And Mother Hilda looked at Evelyn, thinking, "Well, the Prioress has had her way with her."
When they flared, hers fairly challenged the laws of equilibrium. She danced with the same facility with which she rode, swam, and played tennis. In doing these things supremely well she felt that she vindicated the position of the woman of letters. Why should one be a frump because one wrote?
She looked up into his eyes quickly, but she saw nothing there indicating flattery, only a somber gravity. "I should be silly to deny it. I know that had I been a frump, the colonel would not have snubbed me. I wonder why it is that in life beauty in a woman is always looked upon with suspicion?" "Envy provokes that." She resumed her inclination against the rail again.
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