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I've sojourned up and down it and I can't guess how the old-time highbrows in your little island came to put it together. But I'll let you into a secret, Dick. I read this morning in a noospaper that there was a natural affinity between Americans and the men of the British Dominions. Take it from me, there isn't at least not with this American. I don't understand them one little bit.
Kathleen Mavourneen, and all! No man could have brought up a fatherless and motherless girl like that and keep her so simple, frank and innocent unless there was something fine about him. You see, highbrows and lowbrows are all alike below the collar bone. And here's the catch in it. Bently had told Eleanor that very morning that none of the rogues would get by him, and he had meant it.
"How very annoying for you! I am so sorry. . . . Shall I go away, and then you can discuss my sins in a loud voice with Captain Vane?" Nancy Smallwood shook an admonishing finger at him, and sighed pathetically. "Do go on talking, you two. I do so love to hear about these things, and I'm so stupid myself. . . ." "For Heaven's sake, Nancy," laughed Vane, "don't put me amongst the highbrows.
Finally he raised up, swung his feet to the floor, and sat there staring around the little cabin as though he had never before seen it. "Huh! You'd think, the way he highbrows me, that Cash never done wrong in his life! Tin angel, him I don't think. Next time, I'll tell a pinheaded world I'll have to bring home a quart or two, and put on a show right!"
I had to pretend to be satisfied, for the position of John S. wasn't so strong as to allow him to take liberties. If I asked one of the highbrows he looked wise and spoke of the might of German arms and German organization and German staff-work. I used to nod my head and get enthusiastic about these stunts, but it was all soft soap.
Even Ditmar was not of these. "I've just been showing a lot of highbrows through the mill," he told Janet. "They asked questions enough to swamp a professor of economics." And Janet was suddenly impelled to ask: "Will you take me through sometime, Mr. Caldwell?" "You've never been through?" he exclaimed. "Why, we'll go now, if you can spare the time." Her face had become scarlet. "Don't tell Mr.
"The restaurant, where I go as often as once a month, has an unvarying clientele, hostile highbrows, officers in mufti, members of Parliament, bureaucrats. "While laboriously gnawing my way through a redoubtable sole with sauce au gratin, I examined the habitués seated all around me and I found them singularly altered since my last visit.
We opine that there is more bellicosity than science among your highbrows. That is so? My father fought at Chattanooga, but these eyes have seen nothing gorier than a Presidential election. Say, is there any way I could be let into a scene of real bloodshed? His serious tone made me laugh. 'There are plenty of your countrymen in the present show, I said.
Chum had, for a literary fellow, always seemed to be a Regular Guy; he belonged to the Chatham Road Presbyterian Church and went to the Boosters' lunches and liked cigars and motors and racy stories. But suppose that secretly After all, you never could tell about these darn highbrows; and to be an out-and-out spiritualist would be almost like being a socialist!"
"You just want to grab it off, right after dinner, and leave it in front of some skirt's house all evening while you sit and gas about lite'ature and the highbrows you're going to marry if they only propose!" "Well, Dad oughtn't to EVER let you have it! You and those beastly Jones boys drive like maniacs. The idea of your taking the turn on Chautauqua Place at forty miles an hour!"
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