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Anyways you mustn't go traipsing around, even if you feel better to-morrow. I'll settle everything, so don't you fret." She took his face between her hands, and kissed him as if he were a child. "Good night, my duck. You get off to bed and keep warm." She worked off her fears in action. Having given notice of the banns to Mr. Pratt, sent off Dr.
How these folks can stand gadding 'round the country week in and week out, feeding their stomachs on a French dictionary instead of good United States meat and potatoes and squash, and spending their days traipsing off to see things they ain't a mite interested in, and their nights trying to get rested so they can go and see some more the next day, I don't understand." Mr. Smith chuckled.
Not for an instant do we feel the customary respectable and sanctioned desire to kiss the sheets yet an hour or so. The traipsing, trolloping humor of spring is in our veins; we feel that we must be about felling an aurochs or a narwhal for breakfast. We leap into our clothes and hurry downstairs and out of the front door and skirmish round the house to see and smell and feel. It is spring.
Just what happened to give you such a change of heart?" "I made the sudden discovery," he said, affecting a laziness he was very far from feeling, "that you were too near being a young woman to go traipsing around the country with me, living at shacks, and having no company but gambling sharks, and that class of cattle." "Oh, did you? What else?"
Suppose he'll leave her at Ali Masjid? He'll have to leave her somewhere on the way. She'll get stolen. Gad! That's the brightest notion yet! I'll make a point of buying her from the first horse-thief who comes traipsing down the Pass!" "Here's wishing you luck!" said King. "It's time to go, sir."
I asked, without thinking, because to Evan and me going to fires is one of the standard attractions of our New York. "Barbara, child, don't be absurd. What should I do traipsing after an engine?" "Yet a good fire is a very exciting spectacle. I once had the habit of going," said Martin Cortright, emerging from a cloud of cigar smoke.
"Perhaps if you had tried to catch her it would only have made her worse," Ruth replied, gently patting the excited woman's hand. "The voice of God!" muttered the victim of her own nervousness. "And she traipsing through these woods in a silk dress!" exclaimed Mr. Paul. "I tell 'em all, city folks ain't got right good sense." "Maybe you are right, Mr. Paul," sighed Ruth.
In the morning, the unhappy victim awoke to a headache, and consciousness, and the dialogue of the night was resumed. "Why do you bring captains home to dinner when there's not a guinea in the house? How am I to give dinners when you leave me without a shilling? How am I to go traipsing to Kensington in my yellow satin sack before all the fine company?
Have to be moving along if he wanted to get there some time that day. He wished he didn't have to go alone, so he did. The old lady would surely lay him out, and he wished for company to share his misery. Why couldn't Swing Tunstall have stayed reasonably in Farewell instead of traipsing off over the range like a tomfool. Might not be back for a week, Swing mightn't. Why hadn't he used his head?
This is no place for a woman. A woman would have to be off her head to come traipsing up here in the snow. Is that what you were yelling about? I thought you were a catamount, at least." He laughed. He had an idea, suddenly conceived, that the man, having a keen sense of personal dignity, was subject to ridicule, and that a laugh would be salutary for him. And he was right.
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