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"The Ethels did begin it some time ago; I caught them at it," he accused, shaking his finger at his sister and cousin. "I told the girls we had been taking flowers to the Old Ladies' Home," confessed Ethel Brown. "O, you have! I didn't know that! I did find out that you were supplying the Atwoods down by the bridge with sweetpeas." "There have been such oodles," protested Ethel Blue. "Of course.
He could always motor up to Washington and New York, and bring a crowd back with him. His cellars were well stocked, and his hospitality undiscriminating. "I don't know the girl," he told Dalton, "but the old man is Judge Bannister. He's one of the natives no money and oodles of pride." In calling Judge Bannister a "native," Oscar showed a lack of proportion.
"I wanted to talk a little about your Becky." His laughter died at once. "Well, I'm not going to talk about her." "Please I am dying of curiosity I hear that she is very rich, Georgie." "Rich?" "Yes. She has oodles of money " "I don't believe it." "But it is true, Georgie." "Who told you?" "Mrs. Flippin." "It is all rot " "It isn't rot, Georgie. Mrs. Flippin knows about it.
"What do we need money for? It costs practically nothing to live up here. Why this sudden desire to pursue the dollar? Besides, how are you going to pursue it?" "Go prospecting," he replied promptly. "Hit the trail for a place I know where there's oodles of coarse gold, if you can get to it at low water.
"There's oodles of it, and oodles of it, and, without kith or kin, I have so little time longer to live that I shall not need it much or much of it."
"What's that?" demanded Jerry, a bit sharply. "Well, what's the idea of our coming over here every night to sleep, when there's oodles of room there on Lost Island, where we're needed? Huh?" "What's that 'huh'? Boy Scout for sir?" cried Jerry hotly.
But I shake my fist in the teeth of Time. I refuse to surrender. I shall not allow myself to become antiquated. I'm on the wrong track, in some way, but before I dry up into a winter apple I'm going to find out where the trouble is, and correct it. I never was much of a sleep-walker. I want life, Life and oodles of it.... Among other things, by the way, which I've been missing are books.
He could always motor up to Washington and New York, and bring a crowd back with him. His cellars were well stocked, and his hospitality undiscriminating. "I don't know the girl," he told Dalton, "but the old man is Judge Bannister. He's one of the natives no money and oodles of pride." In calling Judge Bannister a "native," Oscar showed a lack of proportion.
"Sure, it's one of our agreements, sir. What time would it suit you, sir, to-morrow afternoon, for me to sign on at the shipping commissioner's?" "Casks and chests of it, casks and chests of it, oodles and oodles, a fathom under the sand," chattered the Ancient Mariner. "You're all touched up under the roof," Daughtry grinned.
I'll live in the annals of nothin'! Curtiss and Brookins and Hoxsey have all made longer flights than mine, in this country alone, and they're aviators I'm not worthy to fill the gas-tanks of.... Gee! I'm sleepy! Got to look polite, but I wish I could beat it.... Let's see. Now look here, young Carl; starting in to-morrow, you begin to read oodles of books. Let's see.
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