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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Always asking her to dress up and come over to chow with him at the hotel." And the spanner went down as if Neptune were rebuking the seas. "Does she go?" "No." "Well, then can't you leave the lady to discourage him in her own way?" "She won't go to the ho-tel, because she hates Ching Po. But she walks out with him Sunday afternoons. He gives her gimcracks." "Then she likes him?"
Ah! if I had but known the value of his gimcracks, and if I had known what I know now about his amours, I should be easy in my mind this day " "Keep on, in fact," broke in Fraisier. "Dying folk have queer fancies, my dear madame; they disappoint hopes many a time. Let him make his will, and then we shall see. And of all things, the property must be valued.
"About antiquities, the old gimcracks that people pay so much for today. Do you know the kind of price they bring?" I thought I saw what was coming, but I said ingenuously, "Do you want to buy something?" "No, I want to sell. What would an amateur give me for that?" She unfolded the white paper and made a motion for me to take from her a small oval portrait.
"An' I tell you what's more, if I were to climb up an' in there, I'd trust to my own 'bean' and a few matches, 'thout any gimcracks," craked the boastful voice further, the special gewgaw on which the braggart fixed his eye, at the moment, being the little Baldwin safety lamp, four inches high, which Stud was just lighting, attached to the front of his olive-green scout hat.
Becky came down to him presently; whenever the dear girl expected his lordship, her toilette was prepared, her hair in perfect order, her mouchoirs, aprons, scarfs, little morocco slippers, and other female gimcracks arranged, and she seated in some artless and agreeable posture ready to receive him whenever she was surprised, of course, she had to fly to her apartment to take a rapid survey of matters in the glass, and to trip down again to wait upon the great peer.
How Rooney rendered "gimcracks" into Eskimo we are not prepared to say, but the whole description sent Nunaga and her mother into fits of giggling, for those simple-minded creatures of the icy north unlike sedate Europeans are easily made to laugh. At this point Angut struck in again, for he felt that the conversation was becoming frivolous.
"Nothing can be so annoying as to see common gimcracks aping ME!" interposed the princess in the pink shoes. "They even steal my motto, though it is Scripture," said a Trauerkrug of Regensburg in black-and-white. "And my own dots they put on plain English china creatures!" sighed the little white maid of Nymphenburg.
"By no means, for they cover 'em well up with loose flapping garments, extending from the waist all the way down to the feet. Then they don't wear hoods like you, but stick queer things on their heads, of all shapes and sizes sometimes of no shape at all and very small size which they cover over with feathers, an' flowers, an' fluttering things of all colours, besides lots of other gimcracks."
He came to it, at all events; he packed up his books and pictures and gimcracks, and bade farewell to Europe. This house which he now occupies belonged to his wife's estate. She had, for sentimental reasons of her own, commended it to his particular care.
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