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"By Jove, we ought to have insisted on her doing it from the first," he told Tiddy, his lieutenant, under his breath. "I could have gotten twice as much work out of 'em. "Who'd have broken the news to Cousin?" he wanted to know. Clarence eyed him with the detached interest that was his, and meditated with a certain amusement on the changeableness of college boys.
An' Tiddy Rosenfelt stood alone in th' primeval forest. Suddenly there was a sound in th' bushes. He loaded his pen, an' thin give a gasp iv relief, f'r down th' glade come his thrusted ally, John Burroughs, leadin' captive th' pair iv wild white mice that had so long preyed on th' counthry. "An' there ye ar-re, Hinnissy.
"Not I, Miss Hobbs; but Howard, there! ah, if you heard him!" The consequence of this hint was, that the unhappy secretary, who, alone, in a distant corner, was unconsciously refreshing his fancy with some cool weak coffee, was instantly beset with applications from Miss Bridget, Mrs. Tiddy, Mr. Tiddy, and the tall doctor, to favour the company with a specimen of his talents. Mr.
He was evidently a worshiper. Joy felt quite herself by now, the old self-possessed Joy of the salon and recitations. "Well, not over the dessert," she said, laughing. "But as soon as dinner is over, if you want me to. There's one I say to a harp. There's a harp here." "Can you play a harp, too?" demanded Clarence, "as well as make biscuits? See here, Tiddy, you forget your position in life.
He gamed me to do it, an' laughed an' squeezed me harder, an' the cowardly crawler actually made to kiss me; but I bit him on the nose and spat at him, an took the horses over a bad gutter round a fallen tree at the same time an' some people is afraid to let their blessed daughters out in a doll's sulky with a tiddy little pony no bigger than a dog.
Little Philip Harrington does, too, and I suppose you'll be telling me to have him stop next!" But at the scorn in her voice John only became firmer. "Gail Maddox is entirely different," he explained. It seemed to Joy that if he had offered her that explanation once he had a hundred times. "Gail is not different," said Joy firmly. "Anyway, Tiddy is just a baby." John could not help laughing.
Harrington and Gail, with as many more as are needed, go chorus-hunting tomorrow," said Clarence with finality. "Now we'll start that 'When darkly looms the day' duet. Tiddy, Joy! Look interested, please. Bang the piano, if you don't mind, Mrs. Harrington. Now!" Joy and Tiddy accordingly burst into song, assisted by Allan and John. Mrs.
After an indefinite number of performances Meckisch would hurry home in the darkness to dance and sing "Tiddy, riddy, roi, toi, bim, bom." Thus Meckisch lived at peace with God and man, till one day the fatal thought came into his head that he wanted a second wife.
She was perfectly content with things as they were. The weather settled down to be legitimate October weather, a little early: crisply lovely outdoors, and of the temperature to be an excuse for fires indoors at night. Tiddy transferred his allegiance, still a little shyly, to Joy. The change was good for him, because they were, after all, very much of an age. They got to be excellent friends.
They ain't been so much as a black eye give or took in th' ward an' its less thin two months to th' big day." "'Twill liven up," said Mr. Dooley, "I begin to see signs iv th' good times comin' again. 'Twas on'y th' other day me frind Tiddy Rosenfelt opened th' battle mildly be insinuatin' that all dimmycrats was liars, horse thieves an' arnychists.
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