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Updated: June 7, 2025
They go hopping and laughing about and they seem to please the men and to have no end of a good time. Especially the oldish men. Oh, yes, you know a squab on sight tight skirt, low shoes and silk stockings, cute pretty face, always laughing, hat set on rakishly and hair done to match, and always a big purse or bag with a yellow-back or so in it as a kind of a hint, I guess."
And by the time the square-face had made a second round, Tom's fancy had flown higher than a yellow-back novel, Old Dibs being dead, blessing me with his last breath and making me the heir of all his riches!
There is a broad field awaiting some original-minded philanthropist who will try to counteract the maudlin yellow-back by putting in its place something wholesome and sweet and sane. Only, please, Mr. or Mrs. Philanthropist, don't let it be Shakspere, or Ruskin, or Walter Pater.
For instance, often these squabs do or pretend to do a little something in the way of work a little canvassing or artists' model or anything you please. That helps them to explain at home and also to make each of the yellow-back men think he's the only one and that he's being almost loved for himself alone." Mrs. Belloc laughed.
So tiny and elegant, the smallest of the warblers; a delicate blue back, with a slight bronze-colored triangular spot between the shoulders; upper mandible black; lower mandible yellow as gold; throat yellow, becoming a dark bronze on the breast. Blue yellow-back he is called, though the yellow is much nearer a bronze.
This Yellow-back was twenty-three or four, and he read books, and played a fiddle and drew strange pictures and was weak in the heart when it came to a fight. But Elise loved him. She loved him for those very things that made him a fool and a weakling, m'sieu, the books and the fiddle and the pictures; and she stood up with the courage for them both.
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