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They invaded the depressing atmosphere of the European-style hotel, where Geoffrey and Asako were trying to enjoy a tasteless lunch their grubby, bare feet pattering on the worn lino. It pleased him to watch them, playing their game of Jonkenpan with much show of pudgy fingers, and with restrained and fitful scamperings. He even made a tentative bid for popularity by throwing copper coins.
Patrick, John felt that he could have cheerfully seen the entire theatre collapse on everybody concerned with it. He went to the grubby Temperance hotel in which he had taken a room, and gave himself completely to gloom and despair.
"The reason is the responsibility that attaches to the very title you wish to wear." The lady smiled, a little scornfully perhaps. "Oh! Your grubby old peasants, I suppose," she said. "Yes. You remember, Etta, what I told you before we were married about the people, I mean?" "Oh, yes!" answered Etta, glancing at the clock and hiding a little yawn behind her fan.
I suppose you imagine that a girl enjoys that sort of thing? Oh, what's the use of talking about it? It's horrible, and no amount of arguing will make it anything else. Do let's change the subject. How did you like Chicago?" "Oh, all right. Rather a grubby sort of place." "So I've always heard. But you ought not to mind that, being a Londoner." "Oh, I didn't mind it.
Of these there were two sorts: careless young women who admitted that they intended to leave the "beastly classroom and grubby children" the minute they had a chance to marry; and studious, sometimes bulbous-browed and pop-eyed maidens who at class prayer-meetings requested God to "guide their feet along the paths of greatest usefulness." Neither sort tempted Carol.
Small boys mounted the step and peered into the wonder-box, into the mysteries of this neat death-machine, and poked grubby fingers into bullet-holes which had scored the armour-plates.
There was a certain excitement in slithering up and down the social scale, one minute chatting in a personal tete-a-tete with the most famous, or notorious, of the society beauties: and the next walking in the rain, with his flute in a bag, to his grubby lodging in Bloomsbury.
The paper that was pinned on Rameau's breast is in red ink on common and rather grubby paper, therefore it was written somewhere else and brought here. Inference, premeditation." "Yes, yes. But are you an inch nearer with all these speculations? Can you get nearer than I am now without them?" "Well, perhaps not," Hewitt replied. "I don't profess at this moment to know the criminal; you do.
He yielded. When Lawson, after his work, went back to the bungalow he found it crowded with natives. They lay about smoking, sleeping, drinking kava; and they talked incessantly. The place was grubby and untidy. His child crawled about, playing with native children, and it heard nothing spoken but Samoan.
"But it happens, unfortunately, to be neither a dairy-maid nor a warming-pan," said Garth. "My appointment is with a very grubby small boy, whose rural beauties consist in a shock of red hair and a whole pepper-pot of freckles." "Philanthropic?" inquired Miss Lister. "Yes, at the rate of threepence an hour." "A caddy, of course," cried both ladies together. "My!
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