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Updated: May 12, 2025
GRANDMOTHER: I don't need wine. SILAS: Well, I don't know as we need it. GRANDMOTHER: No, I don't know as you do. But I didn't go to war. FEJEVARY: Then have a little wine to celebrate that. GRANDMOTHER: Well, just a mite to warm me up. Not that it's cold. I was talking to that young whippersnapper about the Indians.
As for the dress, we can run the quails down quicker in it, and he says nothing to us so long as we only wear out old clothes and put on our uniforms before we near the town. My uniform is in the ranger's shelter an hour and a half higher up the valley." "See what comes," said Panky, "of having a whippersnapper not yet twenty years old in the responsible post of Head Ranger.
Carl, the listening Bob judged, must be the ticket agent. "I'd like to see that whippersnapper order me out!" blustered Bud. "There's a whole raft of women in there, waiting for the train." Mr. Davis carefully lowered the wheelbarrow and leaned carelessly against the box. "Guess I'll go in and see the girl like to know how she looks," he observed a bit more loudly than was necessary.
For instance, witness the ten-years' struggle of our own little paper to get rid of the word "Hon." as a prefix to the names of politicians. Everyone in town used to laugh at us for referring to whippersnapper statesmen as "Honourable"; because everyone in town knew that for the most part these whippersnappers were entirely dishonourable.
I come here to attend to the affairs of some whippersnapper whom I never saw and never want to see, just because Helen Ogilvy, who was my first cousin, chooses to make me a trustee of her confounded will, in which she leaves money to the confounded whippersnapper, God knows why. This whippersnapper has a father, a parson, who can write the most offensive letters imaginable.
The Revolution bequeathed to the French nobility its heritage, and now every whippersnapper of a Parisian may possess manners, methods of expression, and even thoughts that are above reproach in form, while all the time he himself may share in that form neither in initiative nor in intellect nor in soul his manners, and the rest, having come to him through inheritance.
"I wanna blow you to-night, Doll. A poor little blue-eyed queenie like you, all froze up with nothing but a sick husband for a Christmas tree a poor little baby doll like you!" "The kid, too, Jimmie, I oughtn't!" "Didn't you tell me yourself it sleeps through the night like a whippersnapper? Don't be a quitter Doll, didn't you?" "Yes, but " "A poor little baby doll like you!
"Fellow," I said, only last Saturday, to a whippersnapper from an Inn of Court, a Thing I would not trust to defend my Tom-Cat were he in peril at the Old Bailey for birdslaughter, and who picks up a wretched livelihood, I am told, by scribbling lampoons against his betters in a weekly Review, "Fellow," I said, "were I twenty years younger, and you twenty years older, John Dangerous would vouchsafe to pink an eyelet-hole in your waistcoat.
"Well, then I thought: why, now, any blackguard, any whippersnapper, any shattered ancient can take any one of these women to himself for a minute or for a night, as a momentary whim; and indifferently, one superfluous time more the thousand and first profane and defile in her that which is the most precious in a human being love... Do you understand revile, trample it underfoot, pay for the visit and walk away in peace, his hands in his pockets, whistling.
They were frankly disgusted at the spectacle, and their present spokesman thought it as well that they had not actually lived to witness it even the happier phases of this so-called art in which a mere chit of a girl might earn a living wage by falling downstairs for a so-called star, or the he-doll whippersnapper Merton Gill flinched in spite of himself could name his own salary for merely possessing a dimpled chin.
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