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Updated: April 30, 2025
"It's the worst thing in the world for me. I'm grand-standing and you know it. So's Lucky, but there wouldn't be any living with him if he pulled it off and I didn't." Doret chuckled. To Pierce he said, in a low voice: "Plenty feller mak' fool of demse'f on dat woman. I know all 'bout it. But she 'ain't mak' fool of herse'f, you bet." "How do you mean?" Pierce inquired, quickly.
"Sure. I understand that. I get the glory and do all the grand-standing. But you'll have to stand for it, I reckon." "I'm going to think it over. Then I'll let you know what I can do." She looked at him sharply, a new angle of the situation coming home to her. "You meant to do this from the first, Mr. Gordon." "Not quite from the first.
I'll tell you what's ailing you. You're just honing to see Miss Valdés again. You want to go grand-standing around making her mad at you some more." "You're a wiz, Steve," admitted his friend dryly. "Maybe you're right. Maybe I do want to see her again. Why shouldn't I?" "What good does it do you when you quarrel all the time you're together?
Copley, the stocky, red-headed catcher from Roxbury, received the balls when they were returned from the infield and the out, catching the most of them one-handedly with the big mitt, although he seemed to do this without flourish or any attempt at grand-standing.
The Texan measured looks with him. "Yes, I'm here." "Grand-standing still, I reckon." "If you could only learn to mind your own affairs," the Texan suggested evenly. "You'll wish I could before I'm through with you." "Am I to thank you for that little courtesy from Bald Knob the other evening?" "Not directly. At three hundred yards, I could have shot a heap straighter than that.
Her brother clenched his fist menacingly, but she did not recoil, and he thought better of his impulse. "Are you grand-standing?" he queried, brutally. "Are you stuck on the boob? or do you want your bit?" Without reply she walked back to the cab, redirected the driver to the Charlevoix, then seated herself beside Wharton, who was already sinking into a stupor.
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