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It was the only pet name in his vocabulary, except the "dear" and "hon." with which he recognized his wife, and he flung it at Tinka every morning. He gulped a cup of coffee in the hope of pacifying his stomach and his soul.
That's the trouble with women, that's why they don't make high-class executives; they haven't any sense of diplomacy. When the proper opportunity and occasion arises so it just comes in natural, why then I'll have a friendly little talk with him and and Was that Tinka hollering up-stairs? She ought to been asleep, long ago."
"That makes no difference now," said the girl quickly, "for dad is goin' to move, anyway, farther up the mountains. He says it's gettin' too crowded for him here when the last settler took up a section three miles off." "And are YOU going too?" asked the young man earnestly. Tinka nodded her brown head. Fleming heaved a genuine sigh. "Well, I'll try my hand here a little longer.
His arm instinctively crept around her little waist as he whispered, he scarce knew what he said, "Perhaps here is the treasure I am seeking." The girl laughed, released herself, and sprang up; the pan sank ingloriously to the bottom of the pool, where Fleming had to grope for it, assisted by Tinka, who rolled up her sleeve to her elbow.
"Just throw her hair-brush and comb and tooth-brush in a bag; that's all she'll need for a day or two," said Dr. Dilling, and went to the telephone. Babbitt galloped desperately up-stairs. He sent the frightened Tinka out of the room. He said gaily to his wife, "Well, old thing, the doc thinks maybe we better have a little operation and get it over.
Lord, and Ted is just as bad! He wants to go to college, and he doesn't want to go to college. Only one of the three that knows her own mind is Tinka. Simply can't understand how I ever came to have a pair of shillyshallying children like Rone and Ted.
I tell you there's nothing to immorality. It don't pay. Can't you see, old man, it just makes Zilla still crankier?" Slight of resolution as he was of body, Paul threw his snow-beaded overcoat on the floor and crouched on a flimsy cane chair. "Oh, you're an old blowhard, and you know less about morality than Tinka, but you're all right, Georgie. But you can't understand that I'm through.
"Ye didn't say wot yer name was, in case dad wants to know." "I don't think he will want to; but it's John Fleming." She took his hand. "You didn't tell me yours," he said, holding the little red fingers, "in case I wanted to know." It pleased her to consider the rejoinder intensely witty. She showed all her little teeth, threw away his hand, and said: "G' long with ye, Mr. Fleming. It's Tinka"
She was a good woman, a kind woman, a diligent woman, but no one, save perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware that she was alive.
Kiss Tinka good-night." He expectantly lumbered back to the flat. "Oh, you bad thing, to buy so much food!" was her greeting, and her voice was gay, her smile acceptant. He helped her in the tiny white kitchen; he washed the lettuce, he opened the olive bottle.
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