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She was gay and frank with both, a jolly comrade for a ride, a dinner dance, or a theater party. This was what troubled Johnnie. Of course she must be in love with Clay and want to marry him, since she was a normal human being. But if she continued to play with Bromfield the Westerner might punish her by sheering off.
In America, with people moving around from place to place by means of stage coach, steamboat, and railroad, there has been no great chance to develop dialects, although we can instantly tell the New Englander, the southerner, or the westerner by his speech. It should be remembered that in Europe, for centuries, the people were kept on their own farms or in their own towns.
That was why you were asked here." "Innocent Westerner as I am," he answered, "that idea " She interrupted him. "Yes, but don't you see it's entirely different now. Now they really have a sort of hold on you. I don't know what Christine's own attitude may be, but I can tell you this: her position was so difficult that she was on the point of engaging herself to Ned."
No one can say, and yet without that humor of the suburbs the comic supplements of American newspapers would be infinitely less entertaining, to the people who enjoy comic supplements. So it is with the larger divisions of our national life. Yankee, Southerner, Westerner, Californian, Texan, each type provokes certain connotations of humor when viewed by any of the other types.
"Thought I knew that chap's face," he observed. "It's Eli Hamblin Senator Hamblin, you know." "A friend and confidant of the President," she murmured. "A Westerner, too. I wonder what he's doing here ... Jimmy!" "Hallo, Sis?" "You've just got to be a dear," Pamela begged. "Go to the caddy master, or professional, or some one, and find out whether Mr.
There was no mistaking the refinement and good breeding in the girl's sweet face. Slim had known better, yet nearly always he had talked in the language of the uneducated Westerner, in the jargon of yeggmen, and the vernacular of the professional tramps with whom he had hoboed over the West a "gay cat," as he was pleased to call himself, when boasting of the "toughness" of his life.
The representation of a tussle between a cowboy and an exquisitely dressed Eastern youth, in which comedy bit the so-called dude disarmed the Westerner and drove him into a corner till his sweetheart bursts in to protect him from the "wild Easterner," went to a glorious finish.
When they met at lunch, as they did more than once, the grizzled Westerner who had driven a line of steel across almost impassable mountain passes was simple and frank in talk. He had taken a fancy to this young fellow, and he let him know it. Perhaps he found something of his own engaging, dogged youth in the strong-jawed range-rider.
At last she was ready, and when she had closed the heavy house door behind her, and had run down the driveway to the park road, a delicious sense of freedom possessed her. "There goes the little Westerner," observed Mrs. Evringham, looking from her window. "It's a good thing she knows how to amuse herself." "A good thing, indeed," returned Eloise. "There is no one here to do anything for her."
BURNING DAYLIGHT CLEANED OUT, he read; DAYLIGHT GETS HIS; ANOTHER WESTERNER FAILS TO FIND EASY MONEY. As he entered his hotel, a later edition announced the suicide of a young man, a lamb, who had followed Daylight's play. What in hell did he want to kill himself for? was Daylight's muttered comment. He passed up to his rooms, ordered a Martini cocktail, took off his shoes, and sat down to think.
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