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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Oh, nothing's the matter, only she's poky, and doesn't seem to fit in somehow. You would understand if you had seen her the day she came. Mrs. Gray has dressed her up, as you might be sure she would; but then she looked like the backwoods, didn't she, Ethel?" "She seemed nice-appearing enough to-day. You'll have to make the best you can of it, I guess; for Mrs. Gray accepted for her."
It shakes one's faith in humanity to see such a girl in such a position and that nice-appearing old mother sat there serene as a tabby-cat while her daughter bamboozled a dozen open-faced ninnies." "Tell me exactly what happened; I can't share your horror till I know what the girl actually did." He approached the details with a grimace.
They settled their checks and left the restaurant, trying to disguise their eagerness. After the door had closed behind them the man whom they had asked about the Brimfield trains inquired: "Who are those boys, Can?" "Don't know. They walked in here about six-thirty and wanted some breakfast. Said they was nigh starved. Looked it, too. And mighty tired. Nice-appearing young fellows.
The other fellow, Tanumafili, is a nice-appearing boy from the missionary college, and being above wire-pulling and promising everything to everybody, he hasn't any following to speak of. But he's a good, decent Protestant boy, and will make a fine king." "Oh, ho!" said Jack, beginning to see how the wind lay, "and so the other dodger's a Catholic?"
"Your friend seems a nice-appearing young man," said Grandma Orde. "Wouldn't he stay to dinner?" "I asked him," replied Orde, "but he couldn't. He and I have a scheme for making our everlasting fortunes." "Who is he?" asked grandma. Orde dropped his napkin into his lap with a comical chuckle of dismay. "Blest if I have the slightest idea, mother," he said. "Newmark joined us on the drive.
What does every one of you, up and down town, think I am? Do I look like I was born yesterday? Well, I wasn't, or the day before or the day before that. Honest to God, if I was a nice-appearing fellow like you I'd be ashamed, I would. I'd go out in the garden and eat worms, I would." He retreated before her scorn, but smiling.
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