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"Y-es," said Howard, musingly, "there is an atmosphere of mystery and romance about your esteemed parent, Sir Stephen Orme, which smacks of the Arabian Nights, my dear Stafford. Man of the world as I am, I must confess that I regard him with a kind of wondering awe; and that I follow his erratic movements very much as one would follow the celestial progress of a particularly splendacious comet.
Abigail and I have been here for a number of days and we have been entertained by some of her splendacious friends, to use Thackeray's adjective for American fashion; and the impression it all makes on me is beyond description. I want to see a better thing made of Chicago.
The weather, as O'Rook said, "was splendacious, almost equal to that of ould Ireland." Cocoa-nuts and other fruits were abundant. The lagoon swarmed with fish, including sharks, which rendered fishing an excitingly dangerous, as well as enjoyable, pastime.
There was silence for a minute or two, and while they stood leaning against the door-way two men came out of another door in the inn and stood talking. They were commercial travellers, and they were enjoying their pipes of extremely strong tobacco after a hard day's work. Presently one of them said: "Seen that place of Sir Stephen Orme's on the hill? Splendacious, isn't it?
Bob was looking out for me, and here Justin's tone became very friendly and confidential. 'You needn't go talking about it, he said, 'but, Archie, Bob's got them. He's to fetch them on Monday morning. Isn't it splendacious? 'You mean the ferrets, said Archie, growing excited in spite of himself, for both he and Pat had been getting rather tired of the subject. 'He's actshally got them!
Of course, she saw him start and the frank admiration in his eyes, and she smiled as she drew herself up with a proud consciousness of her beauty. "Shall I do?" she asked, knowing well what the answer would be. "You're simply splendacious," Derrick assured her. "That costume suits you down to the ground. You're magnificent." She flushed beneath her paint, and her lids drooped.
"I say, Tim," said Bob, "you seem to have a jolly place in there." "First-rate," replied Tim, "an' much the same as your own. I had a good squint at you before you awoke. Isn't the place splendacious?" "Yes, Tim, it is. I've been lookin' about all the mornin' for Adam an' Eve, but can't see 'em nowhere." "What d'ee mean?" "Why, that we've got into the garden of Eden, to be sure."
He looked at her, as a man does when he admires a woman's dress, and forgetting Howard's words of warning, said: "What a splendacious frock, Miss Falconer!" "Do you like it? I am glad," she said. "I had my doubts, but now " Her eyes rested on his for a moment, then she passed on. "I shouldn't like to have to pay Miss Falconer's dress bill," remarked a young married woman, looking after her.
It's splendacious she is entirely when she's dressed up in her best velvet and feathers and laces and jewels. Why, nothing holds her in bounds; there's nothing she stops at. I have seen her give hundreds of pounds for one little glittering gem. Ah! and here's a ring. Look, Mrs. Tennant." Kathleen had now opened a small box which was lying at the bottom of the great trunk.
"Ain't it lovely?" said Tim. "Splendacious!" replied Bob. The reader will observe that we did not say the language had, at that time, been much improved! only to some small extent.
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