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"He isn't slovenly now," suggested Miss Graham. "Oh no; he's quite swell," said Mrs. Bowen, depriving the adjective of slanginess by the refinement of her tone. "Well," said Miss Graham, "I don't see how you could have endured her after that. It was atrocious." "It was better for her to break with him, if she found out she didn't love him, than to marry him. That," said Mrs.
Mrs.; you nurse-lady, you Holmes Sen. Ito big Japan fight man, he Ito Sen, you unnerstand me, nurse-lady?" "Yes, child, I understand. Sen is a title, a term of respect, and you like to show your friend Frank all the honour you can, so you call him Frank Sen." And Omassa with unconscious slanginess gravely answered: "You right on to it at first try. He gamble all time.
He was the livelier of the two, and affected a slanginess of dress and talk and manner, a certain "horsey" style, very different from his elder brother's studied respectability of costume and bearing. His clothes were of a loose sporting cut, and always odorous with stale tobacco.
He had been a fancy of hers; and the sort of affectionate respect with which Fulkerson spoke of him laid forever some doubt she had of the fineness of Fulkerson's manners and reconciled her to the graphic slanginess of his speech. The affair was now irretrievable, but she gave her approval to it as superbly as if it were submitted in its inception. Only, Mr.
She greeted Paul with a nod and went on with her work, while he explained his mission. Dorothy was a wholesome young person of clear complexion and straightforward eyes and she spoke with an independence of manner amounting to slanginess. She was one of those girls whom an unaided life in the city fosters.
"Who was Sydney Bamborough, at any rate?" he asked, with a careless assumption of a slanginess which is affected by society in its decadent periods. "So far as I remember," answered Steinmetz, "he was something in the Diplomatic Service." "Yes, but what?" "My dear friend, you had better ask his widow when next you sit beside her at dinner." "How do you know that I sat beside her at dinner?"
From his childhood he had known nothing but the fever heat of his "little old New York," as he called it with affectionate slanginess, and any temperature lower than that he was accustomed to would have struck him as being below normal. Penzance was impressed by his feeling of affection for the amazing city of his birth. He admired, he adored it, he boasted joyously of its perfervid charm.
She spoke delightfully, in a delicious voice, attuned to the most melodious inflections, and her constant study of the finer literature of the past gave her certain ways of expressing herself in a manner so far removed from the abrupt slanginess commonly used to-day by young people of both sexes that she was called "quaint" by some and "weird" by others of her own sex, though by men young and old she was declared "charming."
He had been a fancy of hers; and the sort of affectionate respect with which Fulkerson spoke of him laid forever some doubt she had of the fineness of Fulkerson's manners and reconciled her to the graphic slanginess of his speech. The affair was now irretrievable, but she gave her approval to it as superbly as if it were submitted in its inception. Only, Mr.
He had been a fancy of hers; and the sort of affectionate respect with which Fulkerson spoke of him laid forever some doubt she had of the fineness of Fulkerson's manners and reconciled her to the graphic slanginess of his speech. The affair was now irretrievable, but she gave her approval to it as superbly as if it were submitted in its inception. Only, Mr.
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