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"Don't you think we'd better hold on to the best one?" Now the Boy couldn't deny that the Colonel's was the better, but none the less he had a great affection for his own old 44 Marlin, and the Colonel shouldn't assume that he had the right to dictate. This attitude of the "wise elder" seemed out of place on the trail. "A gun's a necessity. I haven't brought along any whim-whams." "Who has?"
I must have books, pictures, theatres, chit-chat, scandal, jokes, ambiguities, and a thousand whim-whams, which their simpler taste can do without. I should starve at their primitive banquet. To sit a guest with Daniel at his pulse.
"What's he doing now?" said Martha. "Isn't going to be ill, is he?" "Ill?" said Bella, contemptuously. "Not he!" "But he's shut up in that attic, isn't he?" "Yes, I told you so. Got another of those whim-whams in his head, and making a litter of some kind skinning snakes or something that he's caught in the woods." "Ugh!" ejaculated cook.
Of course, if it were offered now to the complex and sophisticated society of New York, it would fail to attract anything like the attention it received in the days of simplicity and literary dearth; but the same wit, insight, and literary art, informed with the modern spirit and turned upon the follies and "whim-whams" of the metropolis, would doubtless have a great measure of success.
The women had evidently derived special pleasure from the slyness and presumable secrecy of their interview, skulking out with a craft of concealment that completely eluded the notice of Sandy and "Dill," and this had given Odalie a sense of disapprobation and repulsion. "Why should you care?" demanded Demeré, always sympathetic with a woman's whim-whams, even when he could not feel with them.
Except in our large cities, where some foreign travel may have created the demand, it seems impossible to get much in this line that is properly prepared. I am aware that, if this is urged on the score of æsthetics, the ready reply will be, "Oh, we can't give time here in America to go into niceties and French whim-whams!"
Many Gold Chains, Bracelets, Ouches, and suchlike Whim-Whams the Sable Nymph found cunningly stowed away; upon which we gave her half a pint of Wine and a large pot of Sweets, forgiving her at the same time a Whipping at the Capstan which had been promised her for Romping and Gammocking among the people in the Forecastle. For I suppose there was never a modester man than Captain Blokes.
If you stay another minute I'll regret it, and so will you." "Shall I shake your pillow before I go, Mr. Huntter?" "Yes. Thank you. You manage to shake more whim-whams out of the creases than you know." He stayed her by a wistful, longing, and half-boyish smile. "Say," he said, "you see you didn't run quick enough, and now I'm going to ask you something.
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