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They scrambled from bed and pawed around in the dark for their clothes. "Spontinuous conibustication," said Shoop, with a yawn. "A Jew clothin'-store and a insurance-policy. Wonder who's ablaze?" "I can see from here," said Corliss at the window. "Keep on dressing, Bud, it's the sheriff's office!" "Sundown!" Shoop exclaimed, dancing about inelegantly with one foot halfway down his pants-leg.
At last, the Yankee cast a damper on his enthusiasm by exclaiming, in a pet, "Oh! dumn your singing! keep quiet, and pull away!" This we now did, in the most uninteresting silence; until, with a jerk that made every elbow hum, the root dragged out; and most inelegantly, we all landed upon the ground.
"What about a branch manager in place of O'Brien?" inquired Mr. Wintermuth at length, thinking at least to change the subject, and hoping to touch a brighter theme. Mr. Cuyler's face darkened still further, if such a thing were possible. "Nothing doing," he said inelegantly but comprehensively. "Hasn't Mr. Gunterson ?" the President began, but he stopped short. "What's that?" he asked sharply.
Still they work bravely away, obsessed with the idea of raising their own particular reef well out of the water at the cost of their own lives. The coral of a reef is an ugly brown substance which has been inelegantly compared to a decayed tooth. Not until the coral is pulverised does it take on its milk-white colour.
There was no reply forthcoming from the distracted young man, only a burst of sardonic laughter. It seemed to him clear that everyone had gone mad together. Quickly, then, the old gentleman directed the question to his niece. "Have we, Mrs. Partner?" "You bet we have!" Cicily answered on the instant, inelegantly, but with convincing emphasis.
"The trip's did wonders for you. You look well, bloomin' isn't hardly strong enough. Miss Prentice, I want you to meet my wife you must." "Thanks so much." A certain dryness momentarily disconcerted Mr. Wentz. With a shade of chagrin Mr. Wentz returned to his desk, telling himself inelegantly that she was "feeling her oats."
Miss Earle retorted inelegantly, and with ghoulish satisfaction. "Money can do anything! It makes my blood simply boil when I think of how those Forsyte girls in Hamilton so smug and snobbish in their hick town 'society' must be running poor Nita down, now that she's dead and can't defend herself!... If the truth were only known about some of them "
In very warm weather this Shanks would sit at the foot of the mess-cloth, fanning himself with the front flap of his frock or shirt, which he inelegantly wore over his trousers. Jack Chase, the President of the Club, frequently remonstrated against this breach of good manners; but the steady-cook had somehow contracted the habit, and it proved incurable.
Strongly contrasted with this, would the spectator, whom we still suppose standing on the bank where we first placed him, find the view on his left. There would he behold a neat small town, composed entirely of wooden houses variously and not inelegantly painted; and receding gradually from the river's edge to the slowly disappearing forest, on which its latest rude edifice reposed.
What do they take up my time and say they like my butterflies for, when they don't like them at all and don't want to know anything about them? That's what gets me!" Laurence winked at Mary Virginia, shamelessly. "Bugs!" said he, inelegantly. "That's what's intended to get you, you old duffer!" "Mr. Flint," said Mary Virginia, with dancing eyes.
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