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We're amateurs in America compared with the British and you're caught by it all. 'Nothing of the sort, said Watson, putting down the ukulele. 'All I know is that Germany runs amuck and gives a mighty good imitation of hell let loose. I am not discounting the wonderful bravery of France and Belgium, but you know that the hope of everything lies right in this country here.
She lost her self-control. Gay sprang up in alarm, the ukulele being the only weapon handy, holding her off at arm's length. "How low!" he chattered. "How d-disgustingly low " "Is it? I'll show you I'll show you whether or not you can wear diamond stickpins while I have to endure a wedding ring like a washwoman's!" Before Gay knew what was happening Trudy had left the house.
We'll go to tea." "So do I Do." A dark man cut in with intense formality. "You don't remember me, do you?" he said gravely. "I should say I do. Your name's Harlan." "No-ope. Barlow." "Well, I knew there were two syllables anyway. You're the boy that played the ukulele so well up at Howard Marshall's house party. "I played but not " A man with prominent teeth cut in.
You'd be surprised how it would bring you down to earth. 'You talk like a child, said Selwyn angrily. 'Well, retorted the other, 'that's better than talking like an old woman. With an impatient movement of his shoulders the younger man left the fireplace, and walking over to the piano, picked up a Hawaiian ukulele which had been left there by Mrs. Jarvis.
Most motherless chits would of pretended a feverish interest in the day's hunt for fossil cockroaches, and would even of gone out to chip off rocks with a hammer; but not Lydia. She would never pretend to the least infatuation for organic remains, and would, like as not, strike up something frivolous on her ukulele while Oswald was right in the middle of telling all about the secret of life.
When in town, Saxon carried her oilcloth-wrapped telescope in her hand; but it was so arranged with loops, that, once on the road, she could thrust her arms through the loops and carry it on her back. When she did this, the tiny ukulele case was shifted so that it hung under her left arm. A mile on from the lineman, they stopped where a small creek, fringed with brush, crossed the county road.
Ted had collected fifty or sixty announcements, from annual reference-books, from Sunday School periodicals, fiction-magazines, and journals of discussion. One benefactor implored, "Don't be a Wallflower Be More Popular and Make More Money YOU Can Ukulele or Sing Yourself into Society!
His hand moved impotently, as if to reach hers, and when he found it, his fingers could not close. He gazed at her with a great smile that slowly faded. The eyes drooped as the life went out, and remained a face of quietude and repose. The ukulele clattered to the floor. One by one they went softly from the room, leaving Polly alone.
Little traffickings began between the two women. After Mercedes had freely taught Saxon the loose-wristed facility of playing accompaniments on the ukulele, she proposed an exchange. Her time was past, she said, for such frivolities, and she offered the instrument for the breakfast cap of which Saxon had made so good a success. "It's worth a few dollars," Mercedes said.
I hated worse in Sam Hill to see that Morris chair go back you liked it so. We did a lot of honeymoonin' in that chair." They were well out of San Leandro, walking through a region of tiny holdings "farmlets," Billy called them; and Saxon got out her ukulele to cheer him with a song.
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