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You don't undahstand at all! Nobody wants you to be flowery, and nobody likes flat-footed, out-and-out compliments. They're not nice at all. I just meant well I scarcely know what I did mean, but you know how Malcolm does. It isn't that he says a thing in so many words, but he has a way of somehow making you feel that he has noticed nice things about you, and that he is thinking compliments."
I don't suppose you can understand such an infatuation." "Indeed I do undahstand," interrupted Lloyd, eagerly. She was thinking of Ida Shane, and the way she had fallen under the spell of her charming personality. Even yet the odour of violets brought back the same little thrill it had awakened when violets seemed made for Ida's exclusive wearing.
Away they went in a mad race, whose noisy clatter made it seem to the old Colonel in his den that the rafters were falling in. But on the landing she paused an instant. "It it helps a lot, Rob," she said, wistfully, "to have you undahstand, to know that you know how it hurts." "I wish I could really help you," he answered, earnestly. "You're a game little chum!"
"Now that youall undahstand this simple little trick, I will " And again no one understood how to do it but the Toyman. However, they just had to listen, for it was a wonderful speech. "Ladees an' gents and fellow citizens of " the strange man paused, coughed, then leaned down to his helper. "What's the name of this burg, Jake?" he whispered to him.
But she hastily thrust back the proffered turquoise, saying, in confusion: "Then I can't wear it! Take it back, please; I promised Papa Jack " "Promised him what?" asked Phil, as she hesitated. "Well, it's rathah hard to explain," she began in much confusion, "unless you knew the story of 'The Three Weavahs. Then you'd undahstand."
"When you were a little thing!" laughed Rob, teasingly. "What do you think you are now, missy? You're head and shoulders shorter than I am." "I'm eleven yeahs old, anyway, I'd have you to undahstand, Bobby Moore," answered the Little Colonel, with such dignity that Rob wished he hadn't spoken. "I was eleven last week.
"I can't undahstand," began Lloyd, "why I should be telling this to a little thing like you, when I hid it from Betty as if it were a crime.
Possibly it would be that way with her vacation. He hoped so. Although it was in the most cordial tone that he expressed his regret at her disappointment, and bade Princess Winsome good-bye until the "good old summer-time," it was with a vague feeling of disappointment that Lloyd hung up the receiver and turned away from the telephone. "He doesn't undahstand at all!" she thought.
"'Professah, says he, 'did I undahstand yo' all correctly to say that this yeah object in the cage has none of the attributes of the human race? "'Correct! says Merritt, glad of an excuse to delay things. 'He is lower than the beasts of the field. "'Well, he suttenly aint much to look at, says the Southerner, looking him over carefully.
Rogers, undaunted. "It teks a scholard to undahstand all them jawbreakahs. Common folks lak me nevah'd git the meanin' intah ther head pieces. An' I say thet the sort o' preachin' to do good is them plain, simple truths whut Bro. Stone gives us." "Yes, Hiram, Cynthy Ann's right," said Rogers.
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