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And she knew so much, so self-assured, and not yet nineteen. What was that odious word? Flapper! Dreadful young creatures squealing and squawking and showing their legs! The worst of them bad dreams, the best of them powdered angels! Fleur was not a flapper, not one of those slangy, ill-bred young females. And yet she was frighteningly self-willed, and full of life, and determined to enjoy it.
The girls went to "doll up," to quote the slangy Tom, for Reef Harbor was one of the most fashionable of Maine coast resorts and the knockabout clothing they had been wearing at Beach Plum Point would never do at the Harbor hotels. The Stazy was a comfortable and fast motor-yacht. As to her sea-worthiness even Tom could not say, but she looked all right.
"Oh, he is dreadfully slangy, and, of course, he isn't educated. I suppose if I mentioned Hamlet to him, he'd think I was talking about some town in Oklahoma." "Well, I reckon he's been his own Hamlet," retorted Miss Polly; "and knowing about Hamlet don't make a man, anyhow. George knew all about Hamlet, but it didn't make him easy to live with." "Yes, that's just it.
In one sense this breach would mean freedom and relief, and yet he was rather fond of his dowdy old Aunt Emma, and he also liked that slangy slacker Sandy; he could not bear to give anyone pain, or to appear shabby or ungrateful. Of course he ought to have taken a firm stand weeks ago, and repelled advances that had stolen upon him so insidiously.
Suddenly Lance turned upon his companion. "You didn't swallow all that rot about the diamond, did you?" he asked, crossly. Flip ran a little ahead, as if to avoid a reply. "You don't mean to say that's the sort of hog wash the old man serves out to you regularly?" continued Lance, becoming more slangy in his ill temper.
Hitherto she had bumped them down with a slash of slangy comment. The change was quite as wonderful as the absence of the flies. "Do we owe these happy reforms to you?" asked Cavanagh, admiring Virginia's neat dress and glowing cheeks. "Partly," she answered. "I was desperate. I had to do something, so I took to ordering people around." "I understand," he said. "Won't you sit at our table again?"
There is a bunch of noisy, dirty, slangy and bold street-arabs at least that is what they look like from the outside. But learn to look within. There you will find the cause of their appearance, and when you have found the cause you will sympathize with them.
Scorch O'Brien, the odd new friend she had made, was so sprightly a soul that she really had not observed the change in the weather. "Oh! I'd like to have a brother like him," she thought. "I don't care if he is slangy and fresh. I guess he wouldn't be so if as he says everybody didn't try to poke fun at his red hair. And how homely he is!"
It should not, therefore, seem incongruous that Checkers, penniless, slangy, illiterate, should have won, in a few, short weeks, the love of a girl whom Arthur, a higher type, from a worldly standpoint, had tried for years to make his own, without success.
She still saw him outwardly at least without the glamour of romance she still thought of him as boisterous, uneducated, slangy but she was beginning almost unconsciously to distinguish between the faults of manner and the faults of character; she was beginning to be tolerant.
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