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But then she remembered she was on honor to stay indoors; so even after throwing her bag out of the window, she gave up the intention. And let me tell you," added Jennie, storming with anger, "if this stuck-up, silly Cora Rathmore doesn't want to room with Nancy, I do!" The excited girl turned to the sobbing Nancy and took her in her arms again.
"I'm not disagreeable," replied Christopher mendaciously; "only I can not let you be taken in by a stuck-up fool without trying to open your eyes; I shouldn't be your friend if I could." And he actually believed that this was the case. He forgot that it is not the trick of friendship, but of love, to make "a corner" in affection, and to monopolize the whole stock of the commodity.
Jones being the only woman in the circle of her acquaintance to whom she would lend her copper boiler looked a little askance at these "new-fangled notions," wondering how "Miss Jones expected to keep the flies out of her house if she had all the doors a-flyin' three times a day," and fearing lest Melinda was getting "stuck-up notions in her head, which would make her fit for nothing."
He was the object of considerable curiosity among the visitors, and was generally voted "stuck-up," and "too big for his boots."
"Oh, Hester, don't!" said Midget, bursting into tears. "How can you be so cross to me? I don't mean to be stuck-up and proud, and I don't think I am. You can be Queen if you want to, and we'll have the election thing all right. Please don't be so mean to me!" "Can I be Queen?" demanded Hester, a little mollified; "can I, really?" "Why, yes, if the boys agree. They have as much say as I do."
She bore the number 1 upon her satin side, and dropping my eyes to my program I read: 1. Très Jolie b. m. by Hamilton dam Alberta. John C. Dillon, Lexington, Kentucky. "What sort of jockey is Manders?" I asked Blister. "Good heady boy," was the reply. "Virginia, oh, Virginia, isn't she a lamb?" gasped Mrs. Dillon. "She's a stuck-up miss," said Miss Goodloe in an even tone, and I almost hated her.
Girls whom years ago she had rather fancied to be "snobs" and "stuck-up" proved very gracious, very informal and jolly, at closer view; even the most prominent matrons began to call her "child" and "you little Susan Brown, you!" and show her small kindnesses.
But Madame Loiseau, who had the prickly disposition of a nettle remarked to her husband, at the moment they were going to bed: "That stuck-up little Madame Carre-Lamadon laughed deceitfully all evening." "You know, for women, when they chase uniforms, it does not make any difference whether the uniforms are French or Prussian. What a pity, oh Lord!"
"Oh, Bruce," she said with a little tinge of fear in her tone. "I'm sometimes so afraid of that losing you all in the work and hurry that is coming to me. But you'll help me, won't you? You'll keep me remembering how much we've always despised conceited, stuck-up people?
You passed within ten feet of me at the crossing of Whitehall Street and Marietta. You saw me as plainly as you see me now, and yet you turned your head away. You thought" here an actual oath escaped the girl's lips "you were afraid of what that stuck-up fool of a woman would think. She knows about us she's heard; she recognized me. I saw it in her eyes.
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