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To Peter, it was just a quiet, happy evening at home, with the pianola and flashlight photographs, and a rarebit that wouldn't grow creamy in spite of his and Susan's combined efforts. But to Susan it was a glimpse of Paradise. "Peter loves to have his girl friends dine here," smiled old Mrs. Baxter in parting. "You must come again. He has company two or three times a week."
"Thank you, Louis." "No; I thank you! It's a new sensation to be of legitimate use to anybody. Really, I'm much obliged." "Don't speak so bitterly " "Not at all. Short of being celestially translated and sinlessly melodious on my pianola up aloft, I had no hope of ever being useful to you and Hamil "
He thought of his realty interests in town, as they lay exposed to spoliation, to confiscation. "I am afraid I shall not be a reformer," he said, in discouragement. Abner shook a condemnatory head in full corroboration. And Whyland, who may have been looking for a prop to wavering principles, shook his own head too. "Don't work so hard at it," said Medora, laying her violin on top of the pianola.
There isn't any wheat or chaff or anything of that sort in the barn, and there never will be again: there's just a pianola and a dancing floor, and if a cow came into this farmyard everybody in the place would be shooing it out again. They'd regard it as a most unnatural object." He had a pleasant sense of talking at last. He kept right on. He was moved to a sweeping generalisation.
It was as if he had been a pianola and somebody had inserted a new record. Looking well and happy! He blew a smoke ring. Well, if it came to that, why not? Why shouldn't he look well and happy? What had he got to worry about? He was a young man, fit and strong, in the springtide of life, just about to plunge into an absorbing business.
Britling, and then he danced with Letty. And then it seemed time for him to look for Miss Cecily again. And so the cheerful evening passed until they were within a quarter of an hour of Sunday morning. Mrs. Britling went to exert a restraining influence upon the pianola. "Oh! one dance more!" cried Cissie Corner. "Oh! one dance more!" cried Letty. "One dance more," Mr.
I'm sure she could manage a gramophone thing I mean pianista pianola quite nicely for you when you want any music. Couldn't you, my dear?" And she gazed at Cicely with a bland kindliness as she put the question. Cicely's eyes sparkled with fun and satire. "I'm sure I could!" she declared, with the utmost seriousness "It would be delightful! Just like organ-grinding, only much more so!
It was furnished as a sitting-room elegant in red plush, with oil paintings on the walls, a fringed red silk-plush dado fastened to the mantelpiece with bright brass-headed tacks, elaborate imitation lace throws on the sofa and chairs, and an imposing piece that might have been a cabinet organ or a pianola or a roll-top desk but was in fact a comfortable folding bed.
Nothing remains to be brought but mutton, books and pictures, and the pianola. So at last we really are a self-contained party ready for all emergencies. We are LANDED eight days after our arrival a very good record. The hut could be inhabited at this moment, but probably we shall not begin to live in it for a week.
Certain it is that she began to feed on young boys, and made the old fellow sit up in his evening clothes until impossible hours, for sheer appearance sake, while his bed was piled with the wraps of boys and girls from what our paper called the Hand-holders' Union, who were invading the Markley home, eating the Markley olives and canned lobster, and dancing to the music of the Markley pianola.
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