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Updated: May 3, 2025
She enjoyed the atmosphere of a large school, the little excitements, and the hundred-and-one topics of conversation which seemed continually to be discussed by those around her.
"Bravo! bravo! that's splendid; 'topping, I should say, like you 'sporting, I suppose I ought to say, only I'm a hundred-and-one, a woman of the old school," exclaimed the lady, uttering, on behalf of the voiceless Champs-Elysees, their thanks to Gilberte for having come, without letting herself be frightened away by the weather.
I assume the nature of boys of the present day to be similar to that of boys twenty years ago; and if so, I suspect that all these services have added about as much to the growth and strength of their religious principles, as the hundred-and-one paternosters and ave-marias muttered by a monk of Camaldoli for the last half century.
The Castle is very nice; and I shall hear all about your last new protegees, and your Dorcas societies, and your model cottages, and your architect, and your hundred-and-one schemes for the benefit of your fellow-man. It is not possible to be dull in the presence of so much energy." The next day was lovely.
Dug-outs had to be found to accommodate every one; platoons arranged in all the sections of trench, all the hundred-and-one details which go to making trench life as secure and comfortable as is possible under the circumstances, had to be seen to and arranged.
For that you must have milk or meat or eggs or fish. It is most important that children should eat a good big breakfast. All the hundred-and-one things that you are going to do during the day racing, jumping, shouting, studying require strength to do; and that strength can be got only out of the power in your food, which is really, you remember, the sunlight stored up in it.
Medical panniers, operating marquee, tents and tent-poles, cook-house dixies, picks and shovels, bully and biscuit boxes and a hundred-and-one articles necessary to the work of the Medical Corps in the field: all this had to be man-handled through the sand up to our camp about a mile away.
They were principally invitations, though a few of them were bills big sums, many of them, for horses, dinner-parties, supper-parties, jewellery, flowers all the hundred-and-one trifles which were as necessary to a man in his position as light and air.
"What'll Billabong be, with its little girl at school?" "At WHERE?" asked Norah. She had come in with the tea-tray in her hands a little flushed from the fire, and her brown face alight with all the hundred-and-one things she had yet to tell Daddy. On the threshold she paused, struck motionless by that amazing speech.
Whether he was more intoxicated with his success or with a shilling Gwen gave him as recompense, it would have been hard to say. The old lady was infinitely more excited and interested about this Bull, on Dave's account, than about any of the hundred-and-one things Gwen had shown her during her five-mile drive.
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