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"It is too bad," said the Idiot, after a while, "that he has such a quick temper. It doesn't do a bit of good to get mad that way. He'll be uncomfortable all day long, and over what? Just because I attempted to say a good word for him, and announce the restoration of my confidence in his temperance qualities, he cuts up a high-jinks that makes everybody uncomfortable.
"Only as Nouveaux, and then, as a rule, the high-jinks are pretty genuine there at least, with the students. We used to go to keep cool in spring and hear the music; to keep warm in winter; and amuse ourselves at Carnival time." "But Mr Clifford knows all the girls at `Bullier's. Do do you?" "Some." "How many?" she said, pettishly. "None now." A pause. Yvonne was looking down.
It has been millions of years since the first of these supernaturals appeared, and by the time the last one in that inconceivably remote future shall have performed his solemn little high-jinks on the stage and closed the business, there will be enough of them accumulated in the museum on the Other Side to start a heaven of their own-and jam it.
Then just before the horn sounded for supper, a knock came at the door. "Come in!" called Anne, buttoning her white suede boots. "'S onny me. Ah jes' wanta ast you-all ef it is right in city sassiety, fur a widder of six months' standin' t' go t' a party whar onny old frien's will be. Thar won't be no sky-larkin' er high-jinks, yo' know!"
Dearest Father: I'm writing you your birthday letter early, as I don't know how busy I may be in the next week, nor how long this may take to reach you. You know how much love I send you and how I would like to be with you. D'you remember the birthday three years ago when we set the victrola going outside your room door? Those were my high-jinks days when very many things seemed possible.
'Mark used to go with me, but, poor old fellow, he has ruinous ideas about prices and quantities, and besides, now he is so hard worked-up and down all day he wants a little more of his bed in the morning. 'And what do you want? 'I never was a sleepy creature, and I get back in time to dress the boy. I generally find him at high-jinks on his father's bed.
On the present occasion, the revel had lasted since four o'clock, and, at length, under the direction of a venerable compotater, who had shared the sports and festivity of three generations, the frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of High-jinks. This game was played in several different ways.
"I wouldn't swear to those adjectives," returned the scalawag. "If I remember, you had the reputation of being a high-jinks man in your class at Princeton." "Sh! Don't you dare to drag forth any of those fool corpses of college, or out you go, bag and baggage." Jack glanced nervously around the room and toward the hall.
She looked for a minute into Martha's small, gray, very honest eyes, and wished with all her heart and soul that she could change with her. The usual high-jinks and merriment went on while the eatables were being discussed. "After that," she said, "we will ask Betty Vivian to tell us stories." "Oh, but we all want the stories now!" exclaimed several voices. Margaret laughed.
"It isn't me," he whispered back, with ungrammatical fervour. "It's you." They stood together, then, at the rear of the house, to watch the high-jinks going on in front.
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