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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Considerin' Lester," says I, "that's more or less of a compliment." "I am not so sure of that," says Miss Joyce. "You see, he was quite frank about it. He he said I had no style or zipp about me. Well, I'm afraid it's true." "Even so," says I, "it was sweet of him to throw it at you, wasn't it?" She indulges in a sketchy, quizzin' smile.
And if there wa'n't zipp and scream to it, then I'm shortsighted in the eyes. My guess is that it's a mixture of the last word in Byzantine effects, with a Cleopatra girdle and a Martha Washington polonaise. Anyway, if there ain't much above the waist line but gauze and strips of fur, there's plenty of flare below, as far as the ankles.
The night grew brighter, the stars more brilliant. The zipp, zipp, zipp of the tails of his snow-shoes was the only sound he heard except the first faint, hissing monotone of the aurora in the northern skies, which came to him like the shivering run of steel sledge runners on hard snow. In place of sound the night about him began to fill with ghostly life.
During the return journey, an officer who accompanied me showed himself unknowingly above the parapet, and "zipp" came a bullet, which ripped one of the stars off his coat. "Jove!" said he, with the greatest of sang-froid, "that's a near thing; but it's spoilt my shoulder-strap": and with a laugh we went on our way. Again we had to cross the open ground to the covered way.
On it came toward the upturned mouth of the vacuum. It was ten feet away, then eight, seven, six. Now it felt the air disturbance, for it began to flutter harder. Then zipp! It was caught in the air current and in a twinkle disappeared down the yawning month of the sucker. A mighty cheer went up. But they were silenced quickly when another moth appeared.
"The lady is perturbed," he laughed, dodging a thrust at his neck; "she fences wide, tra-la," this as the barrel of his pistol parried a drive of her knife; "she hits afar ho ho not so fast, my fury not so furious, my fair zipp, ha ha ha another miss another miss the lady's a-miss," for the squaw's weapon struck fire against his own.
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