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She told Flora that she ought to thank her stars that SHE had the money herself in her own name, to do just as she pleased with, without any old-fogy men bossing her. But Flora only shivered and said "Mercy me!" and that, for her part, she wished she didn't have to say what to do with. it.
I mean to say that since you never lived in that dear old-fogy Ohio River village of New Geneva, and since, consequently, you never knew our Priscilla, no words of mine can make you exactly understand her. Was she handsome? No yes. She was "jimber-jawed" that is, her lower teeth shut a little outside her upper. Her complexion was not faultless. Her face would not bear criticism.
The 'old-fogy' doctor, who knows the family tendencies of his patient, who 'understands his constitution, will often treat him better than the famous specialist, who sees him for the first time, and has to guess at many things 'the old doctor' knows from his previous experience with the same patient and the family to which he belongs.
"Why, I only meant that Kenneth is, well he's a dear and all that, but he's so " "Oh, fiddlesticks, Nan, say it out! Dull, prosaic, old-fogy, poky, slow." "Patty, Patty! those words are too strong! Ken isn't all those things! He's only, just a little bit " "Just a day and a half behind the times. Or else I'm a day and a half ahead of them. Well, Nan, that's what I told him."
And this is about the order of proceedings: A few conscientious people take an early glass at the spring, and later patronize the baths, and there is a crowd at the post-office; a late breakfast; lounging and gossip on the galleries and in the parlor; politics and old-fogy talk in the reading-room and in the piazza corners; flirtation on the lawn; a german every other morning at eleven; wine-parties under the trees; morning calls at the cottages; servants running hither and thither with cooling drinks; the bar-room not absolutely deserted and cheerless at any hour, day or night; dinner from two to four; occasionally a riding-party; some driving; though there were charming drives in every direction, few private carriages, and no display of turn-outs; strolls in Lovers' Walk and in the pretty hill paths; supper at eight, and then the full-dress assembly in the drawing-room, and a "walk around" while the children have their hour in the ballroom; the nightly dance, witnessed by a crowd on the veranda, followed frequently by a private german and a supper given by some lover of his kind, lasting till all hours in the morning; and while the majority of the vast encampment reposes in slumber, some resolute spirits are fighting the tiger, and a light gleaming from one cottage and another shows where devotees of science are backing their opinion of the relative value of chance bits of pasteboard, in certain combinations, with a liberality and faith for which the world gives them no credit.
If she is to meet the right people, she must be rightly presented. All her set wear low gowns at dinner, whether guests are present or not, just as much as men wear their evening dress at night and their business suits in the morning. That we have kept up our old-fogy habits so long has nothing to do with the present question.
"Why, yes, after the recent experience of a friend of mine, I did begin to think that there would soon be no such personage left as that same old-fashioned family doctor. Shall I tell you what that experience was?" The young Doctor said he should be mightily pleased to hear it. He was going to be one of those old-fogy practitioners himself.
It may be merely the old-fogy conservatism of the individual, or there may be a law in it." These seemed very paltry things for a man of such wisdom to bother his head about. Theron looked, as he was bidden, at the rows of hives shining in the hot sun on a bench along the wall, but offered no comment beyond a casual, "My mother was always going to keep bees, but somehow she never got around to it.
"How do you know? You've never seen any except my brother and sneak-thief Harry." "Papa says if a girl begins to run around with boys too soon it makes her so forward that by the time she's eighteen she's too old and faded " "That's old-fogy talk." "You mean it's old fogy for girls to let boys jam everything else out of their heads.
But he had drifted away from that set; indeed, they had disappeared, and he knew none of their successors. On the other hand, he had never got into the ways of the old-fogy set. Those stout old gentlemen who carefully drank nothing but claret and seltzer, who took a quarter of an hour to write out their dinner-bill, who spent the evening in playing whist, kept very much to themselves.
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