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He said quickly, "No, but look here, Mabel, wait a bit. I ought to have explained. What I mean is they have a pretty rotten time, all that class. When High Jinks puts up a trumpery, gee-gaw parasol, she's human. That's pathetic, only being human once a week and alternate Sundays. And when you get a life that finds pleasure in a trumpery, gee-gaw parasol, well that's more pathetic still. See?"
He was one of the younger members, but was popular and well liked, and on more than one occasion had materially contributed to the fun of the club's "low jinks." In his box this morning he found one letter that he told himself he must read upon the instant.
If I know Porter Barkley, he'll know enough to stay right there in his room. If he does not " "By Jinks! Dolly," exclaimed her father, "you remind me all the time of your mother. I never could fool that woman; and no one ever could scare her!" She looked at him without reply, and though he stroked her hair softly, he departed in discontent, his own head bowed in reflection.
"You see, mister, I've been living in New York for three months, now, and I've cut most of my eye-teeth. No offence, of course." "Certainly not." "You look straight goods, and I b'lieve I'd run almost any risk to catch that train well, by jinks! here comes Grenelli now; that makes it all O.K." I did not like the looks of the man who presently joined us in response to Ben Day's hail.
As he spoke he took his list out of his pocket and ran his eye over it once more. "Hullo," said he in a surprised tone, "there's one more item on Miss Jane Mackenzie's and it seems to be missing! Comparatively unimportant, but I like to have my things complete. 'One lost Kitten! Now what can have become of that, I wonder?" It was Captain Jinks' voice that broke the silence. "Prisoner of War, sir!
Jinks had an impression that Verty was trifling with him; and considering him too good-natured to quarrel, advanced toward him with a threatening gesture. "I refer to people neither blind nor deaf, who cannot see nor hear insults, sir!" he said. "I never knew any," said Verty, wondering at Mr. Jinks. "You are one, sir!" "Yes!" "Do you mean I am afraid of anything?"
"My Nat's a Peel!" she would say. "Can't never tell how he'll turn out." The farmers thereabouts thought they could tell her. Nat was into one scrape after another nothing especially wicked; but a compound of the bubbling mischief in a too ardent life robbed orchards, broken windows, practical jokes, Halloween jinks, vagrant whimsies of an active imagination.
Sam did not get out of the omnibus, but told the driver to take him to Congressman Jinks'; and on they went, first to the right and then to the left along the wide and gently winding streets, which would have been well shaded with maples if the yellow leaves had not already begun to fall.
"What's in that box in the hall, Colonel Jinks?" he asked in an embarrassed voice at supper, as he fingered the edge of the tablecloth and looked blushingly at his plate. "Oh, that?" replied his father with a wink "that's a bombshell." And a bombshell indeed it proved to be for the Jinks family.
"I have, Tom. Now, where was it? I seem to remember his face; and yet he wasn't dressed like this the last time I saw him." "I guess not, Ned. He had on a uniform then." "By jinks! I have it. That German officer von Brunderger! That's he!" "You're right, Ned. And he's got his servant with him, I guess," and Tom nodded toward a stolid German who was carrying the other's suitcase.
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