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"We'll go and talk to Ruth Temple," decided the younger man, his eye lighting on the central figure of a group, chiefly masculine. "Who can look at her and maintain that the higher education of women is a mere factory for frumps?" "Ruth has a quaint rareness all her own," Sprague answered, watching the play of the girl's mobile face. "She had it as a mere tot.
The men smoked at Olive's request; and she herself lighted one of a special brand of cigarettes which she had made for her by Antonides. "I hate to have my drawing-room smelling of afternoon-tea and feminine chit-chat," she explained. "The two Carleton-Wingate frumps called on me this afternoon for a couple of solid hours' boring, which they dignify to themselves as a duty call.
The girls who come out together, all in a batch, like a hive of bees swarming, spend the rest of their lives together; and they have what they call sewing circles, that go on all their lives. There are sewing circles of old frumps sixty years old who have never been parted since they all went to their first ball together.
"I have told him that I have never been in Russia," she continued, "and he is rude enough to disbelieve a lady!" "I protest and apologize also," asserted Cassavetti, "though you are smoking a Russian cigarette." "As two-thirds of the women here are doing. The others are non-smoking frumps," she laughed. "But you smoke them with such a singular grace."
Why don't you ask some nice people in to dinner? MRS. G. Nice people! Where am I to find them? Horrid frumps! And if I did, I shouldn't be amused. You know I only want you. CAPT. G. And you have me surely, Sweetheart? MRS. G. I have not! Pip, why don't you take me into your life? CAPT. G. More than I do? That would be difficult, dear. MRS. G. Yes, I suppose it would to you.
She had an ebullient and voracious sense of humour and was baffled and eblouie by titled people, however vulgar and ridiculous they might be. By this I do not mean she was a snob on the contrary she made and kept friends among the frumps and the obscure, to whom she showed faithful hospitality; but she was old-fashioned and thought that all duchesses were ladies.
All the while such a pleasant lunch is going on, the amiable birds make complimentary remarks to one another about their dress how very handsome is one's long pointed topknot, what a becoming yellow border another's tail has, and how particularly fine are the coral-red bangles on the wings of a third which is much better than if they should pick each other to pieces and talk about 'frumps' under their breath.
"I spent five minutes over it this morning, and twisted it up three times in order to give it that horrid little handle of a jug look which you all aspire to. Well, well, I don't suppose we need add to our rules that the girls who belong to the society are to be fashionable." "It would be a really good idea if we did," said Elma. "I cannot see why schoolgirls should be a lot of frumps.
I knew very well that when we got there I should have to sit down somewhere on the edge of the platform with the other frumps and fogies, and begin taking cold in my dress-coat, and want to doze off without being able to, while my young people were waltzing together, or else promenading up and down ignoring me, or recognising me by the offer of a fan, and the question whether I was not simply melting; I have seen how the poor chaperon fares at such times.
"Yes" dryly "especially after she learns to concentrate." "And as intimately as I knew Roland that's Mr. Warren, you know of course I didn't call him Roland to his face. Not that he didn't want me to, but then Sis and Gerald would have disapproved old frumps!
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