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"And of course you, too, were horribly disappointed?" she added, after a moment's pause, tapping her oxford with tennis-racket. Garrison turned and deliberately looked into her gray eyes. "Yes; I am horribly," he lied calmly. "My ideal is the dark, quiet girl of the clinging type." "She wouldn't have much to cling to," sniffed the girl. "We'll be miserable together, then.
They were large, broad; the knuckles heavy; the palms calloused by something rougher than oar and tennis-racket. The microscopic traces of black grease did not for months quite come out of the cracks in his skin. And two of his well-kept but thick nails had obviously been smashed.
He would play at something, anything, indoors or out as occasion offered, until he was fairly perspiring, when, throwing down whatever implement he had in hand be it cards, a tennis-racket, a golf club would declare, "That's enough! That's enough! I'm done now. I've licked-cha," or "I'm licked. No more. Not another round.
They speak to-day of a member of a despised race, as one who showed "The constant service of the antique world." "Now listen to me, Neddie Dibbs," she said, as she bounced the ball lightly on her tennis-racket, "you are very precipitate.
He invented things for the pleasure of it rather than with any idea of ultimately profiting from the results of his ingenuity, which may explain why it was that his friends deemed many of his contrivances a sheer waste of time. Among other things that Jarley invented was a tennis-racket which could be folded up and packed away in a trunk.
Miss Miniver looked over her glasses at her friend almost balefully. "NO!" she said, at last, with something in her voice that reminded Ann Veronica of a sprung tennis-racket. "I've been through all that," she went on, after a pause. She spoke slowly. "I have never yet met a man whose intellect I could respect."
The fact that any ordinary tennis-racket could be packed away in any ordinary trunk without being folded up was to Jarley no good reason why he should not devote his energies to the production of the compact weapon of sport which he called the Jarley Racket. He was after novelty, and utility was always a secondary consideration with him. Others of his inventions were somewhat more startling.
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