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"Your plebes are getting away from you, Miriam," exclaimed the older girl in a bantering tone. "You haven't got them well in hand yet. Nutting parties should be left behind for the Grammar School pupils." "They certainly should," replied Miriam in a disgusted tone. "It's Grace Harlowe who gets up all these foolish children's games. She's nothing but a tomboy, anyhow."
Oh, the shouts of ringing laughter and the merry jest of words! Now and then Dick would bring home with him his special friend, Archie Trollope, and what a night would follow, Winnie entering into their games with all the zest of her tomboy nature.
The doctor flapped the lines nervously and tried to escape, but she pursued him madly. Catching up with the buggy, she pulled herself up on the springs and thrust an impudent, laughing face through the window at the back. "Annette," scolded her father, "aren't you ashamed? Fourteen years old, and a tomboy! Get down!" "Where you g-going, dad?" she stammered, unabashed. "To Judge Hollis's.
The splendors of the foliage, subdued by the rains, the grandeur of the peaks, the song of the glorious stream all were lost on Berrie, for she now felt herself to be nothing but a big, clumsy, coarse-handed tomboy. Her worn gloves, her faded skirt, and her man's shoes had been made hateful to her by that smug, graceful, play-acting tourist with the cool, keen eyes and smirking lips.
Sally's nice and all that, but she is such a tomboy." The girls turned in surprise to look at her. "Of course she is; she wouldn't be Sally if she were any different," Phyllis said, and the two girls nodded in solemn agreement, and then Sally herself arrived. She came into the room like a whirl of merry autumn leaves.
"Well, I do like a girl with some go in her, if she doesn't happen to put all the go in my direction." "In other words," assumed Nat, "you like the tomboy type in the abstract." "Guess that's it," answered Tom. "But certainly those two girls are equal to putting you through a lively holiday. Wish we had a pair like them down to The Elms for this spell. Gee I just dread this Christmas stuff.
If anything, I grew rather more girlish. I remember myself as very merry in the midst of my serious scientific friends, and I can think of no time when I was more inclined to play the tomboy than when off for a day in the woods, in quest of botanical and zoological specimens.
I think my face must have fallen. 'Oh, I said, disappointedly. 'She's a lady. 'No, indeed, said Mrs. Nestor, now laughing outright; 'if you knew her, or when you know her, as I hope you will soon, I'm afraid you will think her much more of a tomboy than a lady. Sharley is only eleven, though she is tall.
It was the only bed-chamber which she remembered ever to have occupied the same furniture, the same fireplace, the same outlook, the same familiar curtains, gas-jets, door-knobs that had been known to her tomboy childhood, to her formidably plain girlhood, to her ambitious and philanthropic spinsterhood.
"Mamma, can't you teach Tom to interfere with himself, and not with me?" "I would rather teach Annabel to be a young lady, and not a tomboy," said Mrs. Channing. "You may as well wish to be allowed to ring the college bells, as blow the organ, child." "I should like that," said Annabel. "Oh, what fun, if the rope went up with me!" Mrs.
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