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Updated: June 3, 2025
The brakes did not work, the carriage banged against the horses' hocks, who, in turn, leapt forwards, and our four heads met in a resounding thump in the centre of the waggon; after which Jo insisted that the widow should turn her hatpins to the other side. The widow's luggage cast loose and hit us in cunning places when we were not looking.
Took scholarship prizes as carelessly as a policeman takes peanuts from a Dago stand. Since then he's gone up so fast that every time I see him I insult him by congratulating him on getting the place he's just been promoted from. But what was Rearick's hobby at Siwash? Stealing hatpins. He had four hundred hatpins when he graduated, and he never could see anything wrong in it.
She moved away from him, feeling for her hatpins and turning to lay her hat and sunshade on the table. Suddenly she said: "That woman has been talking to me." Gannett stared. "That woman? What woman?" "Mrs. Linton Mrs. Cope." He gave a start of annoyance, still, as she perceived, not grasping the full import of her words. "The deuce! She told you ?" "She told me everything."
She had been utterly unable to pin on her first American hat with hatpins, so had wisely tied it to her head with a large red-bordered handkerchief which she had brought over from the old country. Jocelyn Brownlee, sitting beside David in his smart rig, had begged him to go last so that she could see everything.
Miss Bristol paused with her hands raised and her hatpins half drawn. Her face, for a moment, clouded. "Where are you going?" "Out west for a month or two." "Oh," she said slowly. "What's the idea? Girl?" He shook his head. "Rest," he enlightened. "I'm tired." The smile came again to her lips. "Oh, very well," she said. "Get out your bag. I'll help you pack it."
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