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And take it from me, girls, these dimple-kneed chickens are vamping the older boys." "They're all stuck on Bessy," said Helen. Margaret squealed in delight. "Girls, look here. Valentines! Did you ever?... Look at them.... And what's this?... 'Wonders of Nature composition by Margaret Maynard. Heavens! Did I write that? And what's this sear and yellow document?"
As I went on thus, methought my chaise, the wreck of which look'd stately enough at the first, insensibly grew less and less in its size; the freshness of the painting was no more the gilding lost its lustre and the whole affair appeared so poor in my eyes so sorry! so contemptible! and, in a word, so much worse than the abbess of Andouillets' itself that I was just opening my mouth to give it to the devil when a pert vamping chaise-undertaker, stepping nimbly across the street, demanded if Monsieur would have his chaise refitted No, no, said I, shaking my head sideways Would Monsieur choose to sell it? rejoined the undertaker With all my soul, said I the iron work is worth forty livres and the glasses worth forty more and the leather you may take to live on.
Bald Pat, bothered waiter, waited for drink orders. Power for Richie. And Bloom? Let me see. Not make him walk twice. His corns. Four now. How warm this black is. Course nerves a bit. Let me see. Cider. Yes, bottle of cider. What's that? Mr Dedalus said. I was only vamping, man. Come on, come on, Ben Dollard called. Begone dull care. Come, Bob. He plumped him Dollard on the stool.
Why, Eusebius, they have lay-figures, and dress them just as you see them at the tailor's or perfumer's; and one of these things will be put up for you a mannikin for Eusebius! In such hands the coat is by far the best piece of work, you may be sure your own won't be taken for a pattern. You will despise it when you see it, and it will be one you can never change it will defy vamping.
Certainly never was there a style which more fully justified the definition given by Buffon, in Sterne's own time, of style as "the very man." Falsetto, "faking," vamping, shoddy all manner of evil terms may be heaped upon it without the possibility of completely clearing it from them.
This room was broad and deep, and boasted, at its far end, a miniature stage supporting the orchestra and, temporarily, the gyrations of a lady in a vivacious scarlet costume mistress of the shopworn contralto who was "vamping with the feet" the interval between two verses of her ballad.
"There are girls who make my old-fashioned soul shudder, but I shall rest in great comfort whenever I know that my boy is with you." "Sure!" laughed Linda. "I'm not vamping him. I don't know the first principles. We're not doing a thing worse than sucking 'hunters' rock leek' or roasting Indian potatoes or fishing for trout with cactus spines.
They tell the exhibitor, and he tells the producer, and back I am at the vamping again. Isn't it funny?" She paused a moment. "Take Gordon. Doesn't it make you laugh, what the public think he is clean-cut, hero, and all that sort of thing? Little do they know!" All at once Kennedy stopped abruptly.
Sundays she'd go to a show and a dance. Bella tried it one week and had to lay off three days of the next week before she could get back to work. Lost her twenty-one dollars. No more of that for Bella. Just once in a while was enough for her. They did not talk about “vamping dopes” at the brassworks.
The result was a mob of authors in garrets, of illiterate drudges as poor as they were thriftless and debauched, selling their pen to any buyer, hawking their flatteries and their libels from door to door, fawning on the patron and the publisher for very bread, tagging rimes which they called poetry, or abuse which they called criticism, vamping up compilations and abridgements under the guise of history, or filling the journals with empty rhetoric in the name of politics.
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