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Updated: June 12, 2025
And into this uneasy hotbed of readiness to believe the worst, arrived the Twinkler twins, rolling their r's about.
Her dress betrayed her foreign birth, but the accent when she spoke was only very slight, a rolling of the "r's," by which I knew that she was French. "I'm so afraid that someone may see me here," she said, after a slight pause. "Then I take it, mademoiselle, that you are leaving the neighbourhood in secret?" I remarked in French, with some suspicion, still wondering who she might be.
Charlotte's bad enough, but Amelia! My word, she takes some standing, I can tell you!" Now, I always admired the way Amelia sounds her r's, or, I suppose I ought to say, the way she does not sound them. It is so soft and pretty. Then she writes poetry, all about the blue sea and the silver moon, or else the gleaming sunbeams and the hoary hills so grand!
And, criticizing the players, placing in lines on the granite rows of piled-up copper cents, they laughed, they whispered, in their chanted accent, with ends of syllables in "rra" or in "rrik," making the "r's" roll so sharply that one would have thought every instant sparrows were beating their wings in their mouths.
A stranger might have thought she was impertinent, for "garn" on cockney lips means "go on, now," in the slang of the United States, and "beller" is not elegant, but Anna knew that she did not intend an impudence. "I feel very sad at leaving you, M'ri-arrr." There was pathos, now, in the way Miss Anna rolled her r's. "Sad! Huh!
"R's for the 'Roll-call'" a terrible fag "Fetching six yards of bread, done up in a bag!" The other meals were provided by the Belgians and supplemented to a great extent by us. I am quite convinced we often ate good old horse. One day, when prowling round the shops to get something fresh for the night staff's supper, I went into a butcher's. The good lady came forward to ask me what I wished.
He rose, found his way into Charing Cross Station Hotel, and obtained a copy of "Who's Who" from the hotel clerk. He turned the pages till he found the R's. Here was his man. Baron Coningsby of Wilton, ex Lieut. Rifle Brigade, m. Teresa, 2d daughter of Sir Peter Mason Bart. 9 v. Educ. Heidelberg. Owns about 21,000 acres. Address 10A, Carlton House Terrace. Rochester Court, Rochester.
Talk about broad o's he spilled 'em easy and natural, a font to a galley; and he couldn't any more miss the final g than a telephone girl would overlook rollin' her r's. And such graceful gestures with the shell-rimmed glasses, wavin' 'em the whole length of the ribbon when he got real interested. I don't think I ever saw Auntie come so near beamin' before.
"Not by readin', 'ritin', or 'rithmetic." "No, we'll exclude the three R's for the present, although all of them may figure in our work before it is finished." "Well," mused Cub; "the others are history, geography, spelling " "Why didn't you stop with geography?" asked his father. "Geography!" exclaimed Bud. "How can you use that to explain a mystery?"
For we are decidedly tired of hearing "Reason" invoked in solemn and moving tones, as if to write the venerable name with the largest of capital R's were a magic solution of all problems.
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