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It was early one morning, when Mayme, on her bench, was looking a little hollow-eyed and disillusioned. I essayed the light and jocular approach to the subject: "Well, Mayme; how is the ardent swain?" She turned to me with the old flash in her big, shadowed eyes: "Did you say swain or swine, Dominie?" "Ah!" said I. "Has he changed his rôle?" "He's given himself away, if that's what you mean."
"I'm your big sister," said Mayme reassuringly. "Tell a feller about it." The response was neither polite nor explanatory. "D -n sisters!" said the bencher. "Oh, tutt-tutt and naughty-naughty!" rebuked Mayme. "Somebody's sister been puttin' somethin' over on poor little Willy?" "My own sister has."
If these enter into the due consideration of wise men, and if platformes of these thinges be sett downe and executed duelye and with spede and effecte, no doubte but the Spanishe empire falles to the grounde, and the Spanishe kinge shall be lefte bare as Aesops proude crowe, the peacocke, the perot, the pye, and the popingey, and every other birde havinge taken home from him his gorgeous fethers, he will, in shorte space, become a laughinge stocke for all the worlde; with such a mayme to the Pope and to that side, as never hapned to the sea of Rome by the practise of the late Kinge of famous memory, her Majesties father, or by all the former practises of all the Protestant princes of Germanie, or by any other advise layde downe by Monsieur de Aldegond, here after by them to be put in execution.
From the opening passage of their first conversation he deduced, lacking the insight to discriminate between honest frankness and immodesty, that she was a "fly kid." On that theory he invited her to breakfast with him. Mayme accepted.
"I see," said the Little Red Doctor, recognizing a condition by no means unprecedented in local practice. "Couldn't you get a job in some better climate?" "Where, for instance?" "Well, if you knew any one in California." "How's the walkin'?" asked Mayme. "It's long," replied the Little Red Doctor, "seeing" again. "Anyway, you've got to have fresh air."
I believe he'd desert if it weren't that he's afraid of what Mayme would think." "Still on his mind, is she?" I asked. The Little Red Doctor produced a letter with a camp postmark from the South and read a passage: "You were right when you guessed that I never wanted anything very much before, without having it handed to me. Perhaps you are right about its being good for me. But it comes hard.
James Dugan, who is prominent in coal-heaving circles; and their friends, the Misses Mayme Schultz and Bessie Goldstein. At bottom, it would seem, most of the criticism directed against the automobile is based on its failure to take a hog and turn him into a gentleman. But in this respect automobiles are like many of our colleges.
I pay as I go, Doc." The Little Red Doctor frowned austerely. "What's the matter? Face hurt you?" asked the solicitous Mayme. "People don't call me 'Doc," began the offended practitioner in dignified tones. "Oh, that's because they ain't on to you," she assured him. "I wouldn't call you 'Doc' myself if I didn't know you was a good sport back of your bluff."
But even that grim and judicial God of his worship ought to welcome him into heaven on the strength of it. I believe that Bartholomew sleeps o' nights now. Mayme Mccartney was a bad little good girl.
"I thought that would come." "He he wanted me to take a trip to Boston with him." I considered this bit of information, which was not as surprising or unexpected as Mayme appeared to deem it. "Have you told the Little Red Doctor?" "Doc'd kill him," said Mayme simply. "What better reason for telling?" "Oh, the poor kid: he don't know any better." "Doesn't he?
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