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Updated: May 1, 2025
I smarten and dress you so fine every day but to-day you ought to think of dressing me." "We will see about it," said Keraunus evasively. "Do you know," said Arsinoe, after a short pause, as she twisted the last lock in the freshly-heated tongs, "I thought it all over last night again. If we cannot succeed any way in scraping together the money for my dress, we can still " "Well?"
She had never worn it since, but had said to Mandy Ann a few days before she died, "I should like to be buried in it, if you can smarten it up."
"Scott," Catia let go the coffee pot and looked up to face him; "I do wish you'd begin to think about smartening yourself up a little." Brenton, who still clung to his bachelor habit of reading the newspaper between swallows of coffee and snatches of toast and jam, looked up at the arraignment which lay in Catia's tone, if not within her words. "Smarten myself up?" he echoed, in blank question.
Mark's is not the oldest building in the world, of course, but it seems the oldest, and looks the oldest especially inside. When the ancient mosaics in its walls become damaged, they are repaired but not altered; the grotesque old pattern is preserved. Antiquity has a charm of its own, and to smarten it up would only damage it.
So the old mother smartened up their clothes, and gave them a store of provisions for their journey, not forgetting to add a bottle of brandy. When they had gone the poor Simpleton began to tease his mother to smarten him up and let him start off. 'What would become of a dolt like you? she answered. 'Why, you would be eaten up by wolves.
The first thing we want is a good fire; I'll see to that I always know where to find things. So this is the parlour? Splendid! Your own idea, those little sleeping-bunks in the wall? Capital! Now, I'll fetch the wood and the coals, and you get a duster, Mole you'll find one in the drawer of the kitchen table and try and smarten things up a bit. Bustle about, old chap!
"There is nothing else left!" said he to himself, and he went home to smarten himself up. That evening, at seven, he arrived in a hackney cab at Madame de la Baudraye's door, and begged the porter to send a note up to the Countess a few lines, as follows: "Would Madame la Comtesse do Monsieur Lousteau the favor of receiving him for a moment, and at once?"
Nothing is the matter. 'If you could be persuaded to smarten yourself up a little, Frederick 'Aye, aye! said the old man hurriedly. 'But I can't be. I can't be. Don't talk so. That's all over.
But I must smarten myself up before I take up my new post, for I am really like a tramp. Just look at my boots! I cannot possibly appear like this, and if I am not at the bureau at the time appointed, the job will be given to someone else; and I shall have to try for another. Now I only beg for fifteen roubles, and I give my word that I will never ask him for anything again.
Paulus did indeed see her, but he made as though he neither, saw nor heard, for he knew she was going there to wash herself, and to dress and smarten herself as well as might be for was she not a woman! When she returned, she looked not less fresh and charming than on that morning when she had been seen and watched by Hermas.
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