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"Yes, we've admitted all that," says I. "But who the blazes is she?" Ernie rumples his hair thoughtful and then shakes his head. "But during all that time didn't she say anything about herself, or give you any hint?" I goes on. Ernie can't remember that she did. "What was all the chat about?" I demands. "Oh, everything," says Ernie. "She she said she'd been looking for me long timesh.
He rumples up the bed, but he does it awkwardly and it is impossible to reconcile these three facts, the bed crumpled, the clock showing twenty minutes past three, and the countess dressed as if it were mid-day. He adds as much as he can to the disorder of the room. He smears a sheet with blood; also the bed-curtains and furniture.
Mr Arnold glosses Pagan morals rather doubtfully, but so skilfully; he rumples and blackens mediæval life more than rather unfairly, but with such a light and masterly touch! Different again, inferior perhaps, but certainly not in any hostile sense inferior, is the "Joubert."
"I've got as many hats as I want at home," he said, "and besides, it rumples one's hair so, trying them on." Perhaps he was going to develop into a Nut after all. It was a disquieting symptom that he left all the parcels in charge of the cloak- room attendant. "We shall be getting more parcels presently," he said, "so we need not collect these till we have finished our shopping."
It is all very well that you should be treated like saints, but do not let it be forgotten that you are women, and, listen to me, do not forget it yourselves. A husband, majestic and slightly bald, is a good thing; a young husband who loves you and eats off the same plate is better. If he rumples your dress a little, and imprints a kiss, in passing, on the back of your neck, let him.
Spruce; "Don't ye think it! For there's nothin' like a man, passon or no passon, for makin' rumples of every bit of clothes he touches, even his own coats and weskits, and I wouldn't let ye lay hands on any o' these things to save my life. Why, they'd go to pieces at the mere sight of yer fingers, they're so flimsy! What I thought ye might do, was to be a witness to us while we sorted them all.
She lolled back now in her simple dress, of which Alexina had reason to know the cost, and she lolled indifferently Celeste or some one would press out the rumples when need be then she held out a pretty hand to Charlotte. But Mrs. Leroy, the greetings over, spread her draperies with some care and absorption as she sat down.
And there stands the giant, to this day; or, at any rate, there stands a mountain as tall as he, and which bears his name; and when the thunder rumples about its summit, we may imagine it to be the voice of Giant Atlas, bellowing after Hercules! "Cousin Eustace," demanded Sweet Fern, who had been sitting at the story-teller's feet, with his mouth wide open, "exactly how tall was this giant?"
But this time a troubled frown followed the laugh. "I know, Bertram, I suppose they do look dowdy, sometimes," she confessed; "but, you see, I hate to wear a really good dress Baby rumples them up so; and I'm usually in a hurry to get to him mornings, and these are so easy to slip into, and so much more comfortable for me to handle him in!"
It is all very well that you should be treated like saints, but do not let it be forgotten that you are women, and, listen to me, do not forget it yourselves. A husband, majestic and slightly bald, is a good thing; a young husband who loves you and eats off the same plate is better. If he rumples your dress a little, and imprints a kiss, in passing, on the back of your neck, let him.
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