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Updated: May 17, 2025
"And her just after givin' you the whole game over the 'phone?" says I. "Ah, say!" "Young man," says he, shootin' over the quizzin' gaze, "either you are too blickety blinked fresh to keep, or else you're too keen to lose; hanged if I know which! But er well, I'll take a chance. You may go out and report to Mr. Piddie for duty." "It'll near break his heart," says I. It does, too.
Inside is nothing but a picture, one of these dinky portraits on ivory mini'tures, ain't they? It shows a young lady with a perky chin and kind of a quizzin' look in her eyes: not a reg'lar front row pippin', you know, but a fairly good looker of the highbrow type. For a second Mr.
Vee only dabbles her pink finger-ends in the little glass bowl, and chuckles like she was rememberin' something funny. "Suppose I did and got away with it?" I asks. Vee gives me a quizzin' glance from them gray eyes, one of the kind that sort of warms me up under my vest. "I couldn't decorate you with the Victoria Cross," says she. "But would you take a chance on the results?" I asks.
"Belinda Lamb begun quizzin' as soon as she got in here; said she thought she heard a man talkin', an' asked if it was you; an' when I said it wa'n't, wanted to know who it was. I told her right to her face it was none of her business." "Who is it in there, mother?" asked Jerome. "It ain't anybody to make any fuss about." "Who is it in there with Elmira?"
You'd like to see Harlan plug Deveny, eh; so's you'd have a chance with Barbara Morgan. I'd be a heap careful, if I was you, Rogers. Deveny knows you took a shine to Barbara Morgan. I seen him lookin' hostile at you when you was quizzin' him in Balleau's. He's next." "This is a free country," returned Rogers.
While she was outfittin' Polly with the snappiest stuff to be found in the Fifth Avenue shops she picked some for herself. I understand, too, that she was makin' reg'lar trips to a beauty parlor, and all that. "How foolish!" I says to Vee. "I hope when you get to be forty you won't try to buy your way back to 25. It simply can't be done." "Really?" says Vee, givin' me one of them quizzin' looks.
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