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When I entered the house I felt there was something comin' over me, and lo and behold ye! no sooner was we in the hall- passage if it hadn't been for that blessed infant I should 'a dropped. I must 'a known his step, for my heart began thumpin', and I knew I hadn't got my hair straight that Mr. Wentworth was in such a hurry nor my best gown. I knew he'd scorn me. He hates frumps."
Meanwhile, whatever price that old slave-dealer Potts wanted for it, must be paid to him even if I had to overdraw my somewhat slender account. Seraglios, of whatever sort, it must be remembered, are expensive luxuries of the rich indeed, though, if of antiques, they can be sold again, which cannot be said of the human kind for who wants to buy a lot of antique frumps?
I heard him say, getting purple like a gobbler, "Come on, come on, I don't mean to let that old catamaran get in front of me!" And he dragged Miss de Lacy through the doorway, bumping the others to get past; and she told me afterwards her funny-bone had got such a knock that she could hardly hold her soup spoon! It was quainter even than the frumps' dinner that Godmamma gave.
They talked a little about the books Howard had been recommending, but Mrs. Graves was bent on making much of Jack. "I don't get you here often by yourself," she said. "I daren't ask a modern young man to come and see two old frumps one old frump, I mean! But I gather that you have views of your own, Jack, and some day I shall try to get at them.
Several people were lunching at Carlton House Terrace: cabinet ministers, and a clever novelist, and the great portrait painter, besides two or three charming women one as pretty and smart as Lady Ver, but the others more ordinary looking, only so well mannered. No real frumps like the Montgomeries. We had a delightful lunch, and I tried to talk nicely and do my best to please my dear hostess.
When I entered the house I felt there was something comin' over me, and lo and behold ye! no sooner was we in the hall-passage if it hadn't been for that blessed infant I should 'a dropped. I must 'a known his step, for my heart began thumpin', and I knew I hadn't got my hair straight that Mr. Wentworth was in such a hurry nor my best gown. I knew he'd scorn me. He hates frumps."
As, however, he had made a movement he re- settled himself comfortably and said, with very creditable indifference, that yes she was, rather. Especially amongst a lot of over-dressed frumps. There wasn't one woman under forty there. "You aren't moderate in your expressions you know." "I express myself very little," interjected Renouard seriously. "I will tell you what you are.
Then: "That just shows how much men notice," Mrs. White confided to her ivory-backed brush. "I believe they LIKE women to look like frumps!" These were busy days in the once quiet and sleepy office of the Santa Paloma Morning Mail.
Julaper; and I know I'm to blame." "That's quite right, that's spoken like a wise lad; only I don't say you're to blame, nor no one; for folk can't help frettin' sometimes, no more than they can help a headache none but a mafflin would say that and I'll not deny but he has dowly ways when the fit's on him, and he frumps us all round, if such be his humour. But who is there hasn't his faults?
But the Lockyers were young and good-looking and clever, and she was always glad when they came to Loche during her stay at Mallowe. "There is not a frump or a bore among them," she said. "In the country people are usually frumps when they are not bores, and bores when they are not frumps, and I am in danger of becoming both myself.
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