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Updated: May 9, 2025
"I drink success to Poland." cried Helen, lifting a great, juicy grape to her lips, like a little purple goblet, hoping to hide her confusion under a playful air. The grapes went round, and healths were drunk with much merriment, for in travelling on the Continent it is impossible for the gruffest, primmest person to long resist the frank courtesy and vivacious chat of foreigners.
Even the gruffest boy could scarcely escape from such a net and Neale O'Neil was never impolite. He agreed to show her, and did so. Of course they became more or less friendly within a few minutes. "It's so kind of you," said Carrie, when she had managed to get the figure very nicely. "I'm a thousand times obliged. But it wasn't just this that I wanted to talk with you about."
Minky, a plain, large man of blunt speech and gruff manners, looked up swiftly as Scipio entered, and a moment later three more pairs of eyes were fixed inquiringly upon the newcomer. "Struck color?" inquired Minky, with his gruffest cordiality. "No." Scipio's entire attitude had distinctly undergone a change since Sunny Oak's lazy eyes first discovered his approach.
You mustn't mind if he snaps your head off occasionally. His life's made him savage, but even his life he's had an awful one, Ernestine couldn't make him vicious. He's the gruffest, snarliest, biggest man I ever knew meaner than the devil, and the best friend on top of earth. And Lord, how he works! I don't know any other three men could swing the same load. And I tell you, Ernestine, he's great.
There, tarry a year or two; and then let the gruffest of boatswains, his lungs all goose-skin, shout forth those magical words, and you'll swear "the harp of Orpheus were not more enchanting." All was ready; boats hoisted in, stun' sail gear rove, messenger passed, capstan-bars in their places, accommodation-ladder below; and in glorious spirits, we sat down to dinner.
'He said, replies Teddy, in the gruffest voice he can assume, trying to imitate Jimmy, "More's the pity," and now you see I can just tell him you don't look pretty a bit, when you're holding somebody in your arms.
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