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The words were not more agreeable to me than they had been to Josephine. I wonder at her assurance in repeating them "Un peu passee!" Many a woman in England, ten, fifteen years older than I am, has inspired a violent passion; and it has been observed, that power is retained by these mature charmers, longer than conquest can be preserved by inexperienced beauties.
One man, bolder than the rest, told him it was a fine day and a fine trip, but that the "Hatty" was getting a little too passée for real comfort. At the word passée the stranger looked up with something like interest, and admitted that the boat was passée, and the day fine, and the trip, too.
The pretty daughter of tio Paella poked biting fun at that wreck she had for a sister-in-law, that old hen, quite passée, poor as a rat, a mere day laborer of the meanest kind, who couldn't hang on to the man she had married! Tonet, in fact, as in earlier days, was again following Dolores around like an obedient dog, sitting up when he was told to sit up, and charging when he was told to charge.
Why so particular to a day? It's a bit Jewish. Anyhow, that seven years was rough on Rachel." "How, Hume? Because she got passee?" "Well, that counted; but do you suppose that Jew was going to put in those seven years without interest? Don't you believe it. Rachel paid capital and interest back, or Jacob was no Jew. Tell me, Marion, when shall it be?"
"You mean it passed from one Chinaman's hand to another?" "Allee same." "Why didn't the first Chinaman who got it bring it here?" "S'pose Mellikan man want to catchee lettel. He spotty Chinaman. He follee Chinaman. Chinaman passee lettel nex' Chinaman. He no get. Mellikan man no habe got. Sabe?" "Then this package will go back the same way?" "Allee same." "And who will YOU give it to now?"
"We are helpers, fellow-creatures, Of the right against the wrong." E. Barrett. "Life was not given us to be all used up in the pursuit of what we must leave behind us when we die." Joseph May. "Le bonheur ou le malheur de la vielillesse n'est souvent que l'extrait de notre vie passée." Two other methods of co-operative saving remain to be mentioned.
He did not suspect himself of any undue leniency to this lady. She was altogether too passée to admit of any such idea. The upshot of the flat episode, of course, was that Philippa "became engaged" to her new suitor, and did not fall out with him. They were married within the year, and three months later her former fiancé's father died, rather unexpectedly.
It was whispered, to be sure, by some who had seen her in burlesque in London, after her flight from America, that she had grown a bit passee; but this was refuted by the interviewers who had met her on her return and had duly chronicled that she looked "as rosy and youthful as ever."
Why so particular to a day? It's a bit Jewish. Anyhow, that seven years was rough on Rachel." "How, Hume? Because she got passee?" "Well, that counted; but do you suppose that Jew was going to put in those seven years without interest? Don't you believe it. Rachel paid capital and interest back, or Jacob was no Jew. Tell me, Marion, when shall it be?"
In the roomiest of these last the mistress of the house was more or less a fixture, and the whole apartment, like a passée beauty, was to be seen at its best by candle-light. The dining-room was chiefly notable for the heavy atmosphere of tobacco, and multitudes of empty black bottles under the sideboard. The kitchen, both in sound and smell, absolutely refused to be ignored.
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