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I hadn't thought of of living there." "The house is large," he ventured, puzzled. "Mamma has always said," remarked Isabel, primly, "that no house was large enough for two families." Colonel Kent managed to force a laugh. "You may be right," he answered. "At least, everything shall be arranged to your liking." He had said good-bye and was on his way out, when Francesca came down from Rose's room.
The features are a trifle too elongated, and their delicacy is marred by a nose a bit broad and unshapely and a mouth with thin lips primly set. Her dark eyes might be magnificent if wide open: but through the narrow slits of their lids, half hidden by long curling lashes, the eyes peer at you with a cold, watchful, intent gaze that carries a certain uncanny and disconcerting fascination.
She wore a purple calico dress, rather short and scant; a gingham apron, with a capacious pocket, in which she always carried knitting or some other "handy work"; a white handkerchief was laid primly around the wrinkled throat and fastened with a pin containing a lock of gray hair; her cap was of black lace and lutestring ribbon, not one of the butterfly affairs that perch on the top of the puffs and frizzes of the modern old lady, but a substantial structure that covered her whole head and was tied securely under her chin.
Oh, that little ramrod of a bishop! The blood rushed up under his clear, thin, baby-like skin and he sat up straight and solemn and awful awful as such a tiny bishop could be. "I fear, Miss, you have made a mistake," he said primly. I looked at him steadily. "You know I haven't," I said gently. That took some of the starch out of him, but he eyed me suspiciously.
Groaning inwardly, he continued to turn, while Rosemary went primly down the winding trail, stood with her toes on the line Luck had marked for her, gazed stiffly off to the right, and then, when he called to her, turned and came back, staring fixedly over his head.
Weary, still planting his feet primly upon the trampled grass, went smiling up to the stupefied Patsy. "Lord, how I do love a big, fat, shiny Dutch cook!" he murmured, and flung his long arms around him in a hug that caused Patsy to grunt. "How yuh was, already, Dutchy? Got any pie in this man's cow-camp?"
"Why!" exclaimed the lady, "are you bound for Carcasonne House? So am I." "In that case," said Saterlee elegantly, "we'll go the whole hog together." "Quite so," said the lady primly. "You'd ought to make Carcasonne House by midnight," said the proprietor. "Put your feet up on that there stove." "Heavens!" exclaimed the lady. "And if we don't make it by midnight?" "We will by one or two o'clock."
Replacing the various objects which formed the furniture of the dressing-case one by one, Midwinter lighted unexpectedly on a miniature portrait, of the old-fashioned oval form, primly framed in a setting of small diamonds. "You don't seem to set much value on this," he said. "What is it?" Allan bent over him, and looked at the miniature.
The editor laughed outright. "If you didn't look so honest, I would think that somebody of experience had been tutoring you. How many other places have you tried?" "None." "You were going to The Sphere first? On the promise of a job?" "No. Because they printed what I wrote." "The Sphere's ways are not our ways," pronounced Mr. Gordon primly. "It's a fundamental difference in standards."
He picked up a few papers that were lying on the table and after glancing at them threw them down in disgust. "Law reports Wall Street reports the god of this world. Evidently very ordinary people, Jane." He looked at his sister, but she sat stiffly and primly in her chair and made no reply. He repeated: "Didn't you hear me? I said they are ordinary people."
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