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"I don't say nothing how her mother treats Vetsburg, her oldest boarder, and for what he pays for that second floor front and no lunches she can afford to cater a little; but that such a girl shouldn't be made to take up a little stenography or help with the housework!" "S-ay, when that girl even turns a hand, pale like a ghost her mother gets."
A smile spread over his face slowly, and he clasped his hands in an embrace about his knees. "You don't tell me!" "Oh, I.W., please " "Our little girl. S-ay, how poor Lenie would have loved this happiness! Our little girl engaged to get married!" "I.W., she " "We do the right thing by them eh, Hattie? Furnish them up as many rooms as they want. But, s-ay, they don't need help from us.
Now, where do you get the kind of hats you see some folks wearing, and where do you get the dresses well, it's hard to describe 'em, but the kind they have in pictures marked 'Breezes from Paris'? You see S-ay! what do you think of that?" "That" was in a window across the street. It was an opera cloak. He walked toward it, Virginia following.
"I'm surprised, Hattie, you should hold so against a man his wild oats." "Then why ain't oats for the man oats for the woman? It's the men that sow the wild oats and the women us women that's got to reap them!" "S-ay, life is life. Do you want to put your head up against a brick wall?" "A wall that men built!"
"S-ay, in your own home, shouldn't you have your own comfort? You can take it from me, Hattie, no matter what Effie tells you, you're twice the looking woman with some skin on your bones. I want my wife when she sits down to table she should not look blue-faced when the gravy is passed. Maybe it's not the style, but if it suits your old man, we should worry who else it suits."
"Can I help it if he couldn't tear himself away?" "S-ay, don't fool yourself! I said to him to-day he should stay over Sunday. After the bill of goods I bought from him this morning, and the way he only comes out to see his trade once in five or six years, he should stay and mix with them a little longer. That fellow knows good business."
'S-ay, I tell him, 'she can stand her good looks." "It's that big-ideaed daughter who's to blame. Did you see her new white spats to-night?" Right away the minute they come out she has to have 'em. I'm only surprised she 'ain't got one of them red hats from Gimp's what is all the fad. Believe me, if not for such ideas, her mother could afford something better as succotash for us for supper."
"You're a good woman, Hattie, and you deserve all that's coming to you. I wish it was more." "And you're a good man they don't come no better." "I'm satisfied with my bargain." "And me with mine, honey, if if you don't mind the talk." "S-ay, this town would talk if you cut its tongue out." "You're my nice old hubby!"
I only say not a boy in this town could give it to her so good. Fifteen years I've done business with that firm, and with his father before him. A-1 house! S-ay, I should worry that he ain't a Sunday-school boy. Show me the one that is. Your old man in his young days wasn't such a low flier, neither, if anybody should ask you."
"The way girls demand things nowadays, a man has got to be twice her age before he can provide for her. Leon Kessler is big rich." "He he's fast." "Show me the one that 'ain't sowed his wild oats. Them's the kind that settle down quickest into good husbands." "He " "S-ay, it 'ain't happened yet. I'm the last one to wish my girl off my hands.
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