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Updated: June 28, 2025
She was obviously a young person of italics, a human exclamation-point, enthusiastic, irrepressible. She sat fidgeting in her chair, trying her best to convince the detective that she was a woman grown. "I'm Evelyn Rogers," she gushed. "I'm the sister of Naomi Lawrence you know her, of course. She's one of the city's social leaders. Of course, she's kind of frumpy and terribly old.
'I look back on my life, child, said my aunt, 'and I think of some who are in their graves, with whom I might have been on kinder terms. If I judged harshly of other people's mistakes in marriage, it may have been because I had bitter reason to judge harshly of my own. Let that pass. I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years. I am still, and I always shall be.
She had fancied Ralph's wooing would at once admit her to all his social privileges; but he had shown a puzzling reluctance to introduce her to the Van Degen set, where he came and went with such familiarity; and the persons he seemed anxious to have her know a few frumpy "clever women" of his sister's age, and one or two brisk old ladies in shabby houses with mahogany furniture and Stuart portraits did not offer the opportunities she sought.
That girl is just as nice a person as ever walked the earth, and nobody ever said she wasn't except those frumpy old cats that hate her good looks because the men all like her." "Old cats!" I echoed, wishing to rebuke this violence of epithet, but she would have none of me. "Nasty old spite-cats," she insisted with even more violence, and went on to an almost quite blasphemous absurdity.
He wasn't London, more was the pity. He knew the esthetic people the worldly, semi-smart ones, not the frumpy, sickly lot who wore dirty drapery; and the esthetic people had run after her. Mr.
"We're slaves to fashion," replied Eleanor, "That's the popular excuse." "Bah!" exclaimed Carley. Eleanor laughed in spite of being half nettled. "Are you going to stop wearing what all the other women wear and be looked at askance? Are you going to be dowdy and frumpy and old-fashioned?" "No. But I'll never wear anything again that can be called immoral.
She looked so tired and wan in her frumpy old clothes that the florist's clerk, who was a sentimental young thing, assumed she must be purchasing them for some one's grave. Even though he might be foredoomed to lose his job, he recklessly tied up the whole bundle that her hand had indicated.
"One can look very nice in a black dress and a white apron. I'm going to be a frumpy old woman, with the worst rig you ever saw. But of course," concluded Peggy firmly, perceiving that Rosetta Muriel was inclined to argue the point, "If you'd rather not take the part, I can probably find some one else. But whoever takes it, will have to be dressed suitably."
I uncover my typewriter and set to work at the thing which may or may not be a book, and am extremely wretched and gloomy and pessimistic, after this fashion: "He probably wouldn't care anything about you if you were free. It is just a case of the fruit that is out of reach being the most desirable. Men don't marry frumpy, snuffy old things of thirty, or thereabouts.
"Sambo poor black nigger obbicer berry white man, but him heart all ob a color. He no Frumpy Massa Geral no like an Irish bestibal. I wonder he no tick up for a broder, Massa Henry." His agitation here was extreme.
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