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"If I had a vote I'd give it to him just for that, as I'm sick of these red-nosed old members of parliament with corporations." "He's the real lah-de-dah Johnny, isn't he?" laughed "Dora" Eweword. "Don't you say he's any relation of mine," said Ernest. "It would give me away, and he thinks I'm in Melbourne. I told every one that's where I was bound. I hope he won't catch sight of me."
"If I liked him I'd go an' stand in the street an' listen to him, not take up the room of them as has a hall hired for 'em by the best man, who has lived among us, and not some city lah-de-dah married to a hussy off the stage, an' who had women who might be any character goin' round speakin' for him," she tiraded, and turning to me aggressively demanded "Where are your colours?"
"He wears a penny flower in his coat, lah-de-dah! And a penny paper collar round his throat, lah-de-dah! In his mouth a penny pick, In his hand a penny stick, And a penny in his pocket, lah-de-dah-heigh!"
And all at once the mutter merged into a vindictive hiss: "Him with his airs and graces, his fine clothes and greasy manners, putting on the lah-de-dah over them that's stood by him when he hadn't a red and was glad to cadge drinks off spiggoties in hells like the Colonel's at Colon him!" But Lanyard had been listening only with his ears; he hadn't the slightest interest in Mr.
You're a spoiled kid. You keep these manicured lah-de-dah New York lads steppin'. Good enough. Be as high-heeled as you're a mind to. I'll step some too for you when you smile at me right. But it's time to serve notice that in my country folks grow man-size. You ask me to climb up the side of a house to pick you a bit of ivy from under the eaves, and I reckon I'll take a whirl at it.
"None of your business, Charley Long. I've got a date, that's all." "I'll make it my business. Remember that lah-de-dah bookkeeper rummy? Well, just keep on rememberin' him an' what he got." "I wish you'd leave me alone," she pleaded resentfully. "Can't you be kind just for once?" The blacksmith laughed unpleasantly.
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