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Updated: July 14, 2025
The happy old times can't come back, and we mustn't expect it. We are man and woman now, with sober work to do, for playtime is over, and we must give up frolicking. I'm sure you feel this. I see the change in you, and you'll find it in me. I shall miss my boy, but I shall love the man as much, and admire him more, because he means to be what I hoped he would.
But Della drained her draught of joy to the dregs, and then tilted her cup anew. With croquet came her supremest joy, one that leavened her days till God took her, somewhere, we hope, where there is playtime. Della had no money to buy a croquet set, but she had something far better, an alert and undiscouraged mind.
Moved Heaven and earth, and ultimately the War Office, to be allowed to go to Gallipoli." He might have told us that he had been recommended once for a D.S.O., and twice for a court-martial, because he persisted in devoting his playtime to sharpshooting and sniping in No Man's Land, and to leading unauthorised patrols on to the enemy's wire.
The dimpled hands that caressed you are indeed folded upon his breast; the lips that kissed your honest faces are sealed; the baby voice that sang your playtime songs with you is hushed, and all about him are the fragrance and the beauty of flowers.
'Nonsense, said Menlove; 'he meant no harm. Playtime was now getting short, and further antics being dangerous on that account, the performers retired again downstairs, Picotee of necessity following.
His classmates began to call him "old know-it-all." Jimmy did not realize that it was their resentment speaking. He accepted it as deference to his superior knowledge. The fact that he was not a part of their playtime life did not bother him one iota.
When does your er work begin down here?" "My work?" Then she understood him and dimpled. "Oh, just now is my playtime." "Making pictures must be interesting." "I presume it looks so to the outsider," she admitted. It amused her immensely that he should think her a motion picture actress.
Instruction in Danish was, for Holst, instruction in the metrical art. He explained every metre and taught the boys to pick out the feet of which the verses were composed. When we made fun of him in our playtime, it was for remarks which we had invented and placed in his mouth ourselves; for instance: "Scan my immortal poem, The Dying Gladiator."
"Louise, what's this I've been hearing about you and Sid drinking sodas together at the drug store?" She stood speechless, thinking of a defense. "It's got to quit. Do you hear?" "Why shouldn't I have sodas with him?" his lady broke out vindictively. "You never take me anywhere." Didn't she understand that all of his playtime was taken up with earning money for her?
I want the bairn you were aye girding and grumbling at! that got the rod for this, and the hard word and the black look for that! My bonnie Davie, wha ne'er had a playtime nor a story-book! O gudeman, I want my bairn! I want my bairn!" The repressed passion and sorrow of ten long years had found an outlet and would not be controlled.
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