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She took it out of her box and looked at it: perhaps there was something she could do to smarten it up a little. It certainly hung in a limp flattened manner across the bed, and was even beginning to turn a rusty colour; nothing would make it look any different. Would one of her cottons be better, Lilac wondered anxiously.
At first she would not hear of the Mastermaid's lodging in her house, but at last, for fair words and high rent, the Mastermaid got leave to be there. Now the but was as dark and dirty as a pigsty, so the Mastermaid said she would smarten it up a little, that their house might look inside like other people's.
If they excused her for half a second this would give her sufficient space to tittivate and smarten up. "Say when you want me to liven 'em up, Gertie," remarked Bulpert. "Go and be nice to those two sisters in the corner." "When we're married," he said, "we'll often give little affairs of this kind. I'm a great believer in hospitality myself."
As we emptied the bottle we yarned together upon various topics; and by and by he made some casual mention of the Maranon, to which I replied by saying that she had the appearance of being rather a fast vessel, and that I thought it a pity that her skipper did not take a little more pride in her appearance and smarten her up a bit by giving her a lick of paint occasionally.
People began to visit one another's tables and there was a blithe undercurrent of praise for my efforts to smarten the town's public dining. The Klondike woman, I fancy, was the first to light a cigarette, though quickly followed by the ladies of her party. Mrs. Belknap-Jackson and Mrs.
Marian looked disconsolate, and Selina laughingly asked why. She told her former wishes, and was further laughed at, or rather Mrs. Lyddell was. Selina said the old bonnet would have done just as well; "it was so like such people to smarten up for a great occasion." Such people! Marian wondered again, and disliked her white bonnet more than ever, resolving for the future to trust her own taste.
Good day, sir. I shall give myself the pleasure of calling in to see you to-morrow." Kenneth strolled about the town for awhile before returning to the tavern to shave, change his boots, and "smarten" himself up a bit in preparation for the ceremonious call he had dreaded to make. On all sides he encountered the friendliest interest and civility from the townspeople.
"I must really ask you to excuse me," he began, but Arranmore only rang the bell. "My valet will smarten you up," he said. "Here, Fritz, take Mr. Brooks into my room and look after him, will you. I shall be in the hall when you come down." As he passed from the dressing-room a few minutes later, Brooks paused for a moment to look up at the wonderful ceiling above the hall.
Last scene of all, which the author, now much enfeebled, tries to smarten up and make acceptable to his spectacular heart by introducing some new properties silver bow, golden harp, olive branch things that can all come good in an elopement, no doubt, yet are not to be compared to an umbrella for real handiness and reliability in an excursion of that kind.
"The Princess thanked her with tears in her eyes for her kindness. 'I have nothing to reward you with, she said, 'but some day I may be able to do so' and then she thankfully accepted her offer. "'And to-morrow, said the old woman, 'you must smarten yourself up as well as you can, and then we shall go out to see the gay doings.
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