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Hope I see foreign stuff like that in the moving pictures." He came primly up to the Nickelorion, feeling in his vest pockets for a nickel and peering around the booth at the friendly ticket-taker. But the latter was thinking about buying Johnny's pants. Should he get them at the Fourteenth Street Store, or Siegel-Cooper's, or over at Aronson's, near home?
"Very well indeed, thank you," she replied, primly, but nicely. Upon this, they both of them sought to recover from an affair that had occurred in the late seventies. In the late seventies James Ollerenshaw had been a young-old man of nearly thirty.
I watched his yellow waistcoat and waving hands till they could be seen no longer, and then I settled myself primly upon the back seat, and ventured upon a shy conciliating promise to be 'very good. "'You're quite welcome to come, child, said Aunt Harriet; 'but as I said, there are neither children nor playthings for you. "Children or playthings! What did I want with either?
They seemed very strange people over the way, and it was only sometimes on a Sunday that any one at our place caught a glimpse of them, and then one perhaps would come to a window for a few minutes and sit and talk to Miss Adela one of the elder sisters, I mean; and when I caught sight of them, I used to think that it was no wonder they had taken to dressing so primly and so plain, for they must have given up all hope of getting husbands long before.
Then Mom Wallis's bonnet was brought out and tied on her, and the poor old woman blushed like a girl when she stood with meek hands folded at her waist and looked primly about on the family for their approval at Margaret's request. But that was nothing to the way she stared when Margaret got out the threefold mirror and showed her herself in the new headgear.
"I am really and truly one, and your own cousin, and I hope you will find me a very dear" "Oh!" said Dorcas, starting up primly. "You must really allow me to withdraw." To the young man's astonishment, she seized her parasol, and, with a youthful affectation of dignity, glided from the summer-house and was lost among the trees.
"I wonder what she would like," pondered Cyril. "She'd like us all to be good," said Jane primly. "Yes but that's so dull for us," Cyril rejoined; "and besides, I should hope we could be that without sand-fairies to help us. No; it must be something splendid, that we couldn't possibly get without wishing for." "Look out," said Anthea in a warning voice; "don't forget yesterday.
"Thank you, sir," she said primly. "You ain't got any call to give me this, not after bringin' us all the way from Hudsondale." "I guess I can make a little present if I'm a mind ter, ter a pretty little girl like you." Mr. Perkins turned to Jim. "Wish yer both luck on your way."
"Dear me, no. Mr. Dempster sings The Indian's Lament, and The May Queen: that's a cantata and it's in three parts." Jeremy began to hum, and in a moment was intoning in a loud monotonous voice, sweeping a hand up and down: "To my hero, Bangedero, Singing hey for a gay Hash girl." "I don't think that's very nice," she said primly. "What do you mean not very nice?" he demanded, incensed.
"Here lives the wizard!" murmured Tom under his breath; but it was only little Una who advanced to meet them across the big, bare room, bowing primly to each of the three in turn, then turning to introduce the English governess who was seated at a table near the window.
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