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She simmered down a bit, I under stand, after her first wild splurge. But she was very folksy all through his stay, insisted that Waddy was her heroic deliverer, and all that sort of thing. "Of course," says Waddy, "I tried to tell her that I'd had very little to do personally with smashing the Hindenburg line. But she wouldn't listen to a word. Besides, my French was rather lame.
At college you don't get a chance to make two starts. You're sized up from the crack of the pistol." "I haven't the money to make a splurge even if I wanted to." "Borrow." "Who from?" asked Jeff ungrammatically. "You can rustle it somewhere. I'm borrowing right now." "It's different with you. I'm used to doing without things. Don't worry about me. I'll get along."
"Mostly presents," she answered it, "from an aunt who has more money than she knows what to do with. The rest is just splurge. It's quite true about my poverty. Ever since we were left alone Maizie and I have had to work. We could have gone to live with my aunt, but we wanted to be independent, to make our own living. And we've made it, though," laughingly, "we've been pretty hard up sometimes.
"They're looking for us. Lucky we're on the last section, for if it was dark, we couldn't make much of a splurge getting off the train. Aren't you going to get up?" "Yes." Phil slowly pulled himself from his berth, then began drawing on his clothes. Teddy was already up and nearly dressed, full of expectation of what was before him.
"You're a liar!" said Jimmy Phoebus, promptly, catching Jack by the back of the neck, and pushing his bell-crown down till it mashed over his nose and eyes, "What do you mean by tellin' a splurge like that?" "I seen him, Jimmy," was the bell-crowned hero's smothered cry; "if I didn't, hope I may die!" "What did he go there for?" "I can't tell, Jimmy, to save my life!"
What shall I treat you with, young people? Will you order beer or wine?" Gladishev had a great deal of money in his pocket, as much as he never had before during all his brief life all of twenty-five roubles; and he wanted to go on a splurge. Beer he drank only out of bravado, but could not bear its bitter taste, and wondered himself how others could ever drink it.
Little Joe is at her house, but he is doing well enough for her to spare the time; I wonder if she was ashamed to be seen out with him after that first splurge. I don't know; she certainly is a plumb mystery to me." His business over, he skirted around Long's establishment and made his way through an isolated alley to the wagon-yard where he had left his horse and buggy.
Thus his nature was reduced to its real elements in the hour of leaving home; it was only for a swift moment he forgot to splurge, but for that moment the cloak of his swaggering dropped away, and he was his naked self, morbidly alive to the impressions of the world, afraid of life, clinging to the familiar and the known.
I don't care about these splurges myself and I don't suppose you do now." "Thanks, no. I told you this was my last game. As to the splurge, if I had the money I would willingly try it again. So long." When Mellish came in and saw that the game was over he asked where Pony was. "He knew when he had enough, I guess," answered Bert. "He's gone home." "Come in here, Bert.
Now I ain't one of them mean skunks that wants his folks to wait till he's dead afore they enjoys themselves; and the day my Ann 'Liza is married, I plank down a million in hard cash for her and her husband to do what they darned please with; cut a dash in Europe as Hal is doin', if they like, or cut a splurge to hum, it's all one to me. I call that square, don't you?
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