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Save that Nora Casey wore mourning and seemed quiet, everything was the same as the summer before. Patty Sands was wild with delight upon seeing Ethel. Edna Whitely was the same happy-go-lucky Edna as of old. Mollie Long and Edith Overman had grown very tall, while Sallie Davis had become a perfect roly poly. She had gained twenty pounds and was constantly dieting and taking long walks.
It is not my fault, if I am unable to point to any classical model for the portrait: the records of antiquity afford no precedent for a culture so highly developed. May I hang this beside the other? I think it is a passable likeness. Ly. Passable! My dear Polystratus, it is sublime; exquisitely finished in every line. Poly.
To which old Eno replied that he thought he saw himself! As for joining Ranny's precious old Poly., why, for all the Life you were likely to see there, you might as well be in a young ladies' boarding-school. And Ransome said that that was where Jujubes ought to be. He liked young ladies. Chivalry constrained him to a mental reservation: Winny Dymond and the young ladies of the Poly.
He found it that ineffable and poignant quality in everything about her and in everything she did in the gravity of her deportment at the Poly.; in her shy essaying of the parallel bars; in the incredible swiftness with which she ran before him in the Maze; in the way her hair, tied up with an immense black bow in a door-knocker plat, rose and fell forever on her shoulders as she ran.
Then Booty took Ransome round to his place in Putney Bridge Road, and they sat on Booty's bed with their arms round each other's shoulders while Booty read aloud to Ransome from the pages of the Poly. Prospectus.
She will lead you in chains, hither and thither, as the magnet draws the steel. Poly. Enough! You would make her more than human. And now tell me who she is. Ly. You think I am exaggerating: I fear you will have but a poor opinion of my eloquence when you see her as she is so far above my praise.
Townsend began at the very beginning to take the irrepressible ex-Raven very soberly indeed, and the more preposterous Pee-wee's schemes the more in favor of them Townsend seemed to be. No doubt he got a great deal of amusement out of Pee-wee. But Pee-wee never knew it. It was quite characteristic of Townsend Ripley that he did not ask Roly Poly anything about his extraordinary adventure.
"Sure," said Peter; "but was her mother a white woman ?" "They say so," said Poly. "Her long tam dead." "When did the girl come?" asked Peter. "Las' fall before the freeze-up," said Poly. "She come down the Spirit River from the Crossing on a raf'. Michel Trudeau and his wife, they bring her. Her fat'er he not know she comin'. Her fat'er want her live outside and be a lady.
"Oh Oh, my my nice ca-cake is all spoiled," she sobbed. "Oh, no it isn't!" comforted Mother Blake. "Only one pan of dough is spilled, and there is plenty more. The kitchen floor can easily be washed, and so can Roly Poly. "Hal," went on his mother, "you take the dog up to the bath tub and give him a good scrubbing. He'll like that. Take off your own waist and let the water run on that.
They had been caught up and flung together and carried away in a maze; like the Combined Maze at the Poly., it was, when they had to run to run, locked together. What weighed on him most for the moment was the financial problem. He lived in daily fear of not being able to pay his way without breaking into the rest of his small savings.
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