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Those Kirkland girls are going to college, dearly loved cousins, quite sufficient for themselves, and there's that granery, yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, one who writes poetry and is too lackadaisical for anything. What we want is a rollicking, fun loving girl to start us." "And something's the matter with you, Phil. Have you been crossed in love?" Phillipa Rosewald turned scarlet.
You know what kids is mostly like in the Brown Borough, but Elbert 'e never was. Straight legs 'e 'ad, an' never a chilblain nor a sore, an' a small up-lookin' face, an' yallery 'air what you could see of it, for of course I always made 'im keep it nicely cropped to the pink.
Indeed, women may consider him engaging. His aunt seems devoted to him, and says he is irresistible to girls. I think if no "greenery yallery" haze floated before my eyes, I might see that he is rather a decent boy, extremely well-groomed, alert, with good, short features and bright eyes.
"But I must come in for the title and the estate when the old boy, my cousin, 'shuffles off this mortal coil, and in the meantime the governor stands to me decently enough, and I'm pretty jolly all round." "Tell us about Stephen Gower," says Dulce, after a pause, "He interests me, I don't know why. What is he like?" "He is 'A greenery yallery Grosvenor gallery Foot-in-the-grave young man."
Morris papers and chintzes and "artistic" shades of color were in their infancy at that date; but Rose's taste was in advance of her time, and with a foreshadowing of the coming "reaction," she had chosen a "greenery, yallery" paper for her walls, against which hung various articles which looked a great deal queerer then than they would to-day.
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