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"On me," replied the other, reddening; "very well, Syl, let them do so; I can bear a joke, or give a blow, as well as another; so divil may care, such as they give, such as they'll get only this, let there be no attempt to make me drink whiskey, or else there may be harder hittin' than some o' them 'ud like, an' I think they ought to know that by this time."
Syl was the only young man in Glenoro who gave "the girls" the dignified title of "ladies." "Always the way with them college chaps," agreed Coonie. "They think they're some punkins and they don't know enough to make cheese." "That's true," assented Mr. Todd, warmed by this unwonted sympathy.
Whatever trouble Syl might have with his head, he was the perfection of nimbleness with his feet, and Maggie was almost cornered. She clutched Donald's arm. "Oh, Don," she cried, "get me out o' this. That crazy little mosquito is after me again!" Glad of an excuse for swift motion, Donald caught her hands and swept her forward with a force that made her gasp.
"What's the matter, Syl?" she said. "Why, of course!" Sylvia was regarding Joan impartially. "They might object to having you break in on their silly tea-talk, the police might raid the place if you danced but palm reading! Oh! my dear, you've struck it in the dark. Hurry!" And hurry they did, arriving at the Bonny Brier Bush a few minutes later in rather a breathless but radiant state.
During the meal we chatted about affairs in the East; that is, my father and I did, and Syl Miss Manning gave us some news of a church bazaar in which she is taking part. "My father rose first and went to his room, to collect papers brought from the City overnight. I met him on the stairs, and he gave me some instructions about a prospectus.
What is this one life for, anyway, if it does not leave us free? Syl, marry your John your art won't suffer! Pat, where I go you go next winter." But Patricia lighted a cigarette, and while the smoke issued from her pretty little nose she sighed. What happened was this: Patricia shopped and sewed for Sylvia and made her radiantly ready for her trip West.
Syl Todd, the village dandy, worshipped him, and Pat Duffy, who was rather a liberal-minded Catholic, declared him "a blazin' fine chap" and gave as his opinion that it was "a relief to see a parson that didn't look scared when a fellow swore a little" which indulgence was a conversational necessity to Mr. Duffy.
Joan reaped what seemed to her a harvest, for Elspeth was as just as she was canny. "After a year," Joan promised Sylvia, "I will begin to study music seriously. Why, I have decided to specialize, Syl English and Scotch ballads"; and then off she rippled on her "Dog-star" the song was a favourite in the studio; so was the Bubble Dance.
There was a trunk key, seventy-five dollars, and a letter signed "Syl," and frivolously dilating upon a man named John and loads of love to Miss Lamb! "Well!" said the nurse, "and as one might expect, no heading, date, or any sensible clue and the envelope missing. We must label this patient, I suppose, as Miss Lamb. The articles of clothing are unmarked. Queer all around!"
"Verses only take you near danger, Pat, dear," she would say; "and look at the things you can make for people! Why, dear, you bring out all their good points." "You would have me stick my precious little soul full of needles and pins? Oh! you black-hearted creature. Not on your life, Syl! Designing is my job it gets enough for me to fly on but I mean to fly!
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