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Upon my word and honour, said Mr Toots, warming as he became better acquainted with Walter's face and figure, 'I'm very glad to see you! 'Thank you, heartily, said Walter. 'I couldn't desire a more genuine and genial welcome. 'Couldn't you, though? said Mr Toots, still shaking his hand. 'It's very kind of you. I'm much obliged to you. How-de-do?
As her head touched the green earth, she saw the little maiden seat herself on the log, and turning her face sideways, say in her pleasant, piping voice, "How-de-do, Dod?" And having made her acknowledgments, all her fears vanished. Ruth laughed softly to herself, and straightway began to read. The afternoon burned itself away.
Surely daddy could not have seen her before hiring this very peculiar-looking person. He must have accepted her services over the telephone, and "sight, unseen." The newly hired girl wreathed her flabby face in a vacuous smile. She bobbed up from her seat, bringing the oilcloth bag with her, and towering over Janice Day in a most startling manner. "How-de-do! I guess you are after bein' Mr.
When Janice heard of this, she was delighted. She had not seen the teacher more than to say "how-de-do" since their rather warm discussion before the date of the town meeting. Now she put herself in the way of meeting him where they might have a tête-
What worried him as a lawyer and a parent was the fear that Dartie might suddenly turn up and obey the Order of the Court when made. That would be a pretty how-de-do! The fear preyed on him in fact so much that, in presenting Winifred with a large Christmas cheque, he said: "It's chiefly for that chap out there; to keep him from coming back."
And about an hour and a half after you have given up all hopes, and are getting resigned to your fate, you turn off the big road and up the lane to the house where you are going on your pleasure-trip, and you hop out as nimble as a sack of potatoes, and hobble into the house, and don't say how-de-do or anything, but just make right for the stove.
I said it was a pretty how-de-do if a distinguished lady amateur, trying to raise ranching to the dignity of a sport, couldn't turn loose a few prize beagles without having 'em taken for a hunt breakfast by a nefarious beast that ought to be in a stout cage in a circus this minute!
Said the most complimentary things about yours truly, and how I was staying at my bungalow on the beach; and then she mentioned you, too, and told about you being in the 'Rest Haven' bungalow. But she just said 'How-de-do, rather carelessly didn't offer to shake hands or anything. "I muttered something about it being a pleasant day and hoping she was enjoying the place.
"Stage life is coming to a pretty how-de-do," cried one, furiously, "when women who have been before the foot-lights for ten years ay, given the best years of their lives to the stage have to stand aside, for a novice like that!" "My husband plays altogether too ardent a lover to her!" cried Dovie Davis, jealously. "I won't stand it!
Oh, yes, sir, I'm ready," he broke off suddenly in addressing some other person, and Stuyvesant, turning quickly to see, was confronted by Lieutenant Ray. "Oh, how-de-do? Going to be here long?" promptly queried that young gentleman. "Haven't seen you since the night at the Presidio. 'Scuse me, will you, I've got to take er my sister wants to see the brakeman, you know.
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