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He had said his "Good-bye and thank-you for all your kindness!" to everybody on the farm even Erik; and he had had a good meal of bacon. Now he was going about the stable, collecting himself, shaking the bull by the horns, and letting the calves suck his fingers; it was a sort of farewell too!
"Thank-you," shouted the men on the red dirigible, as the lines were cast off, "good-bye and good luck." "Same to you," hailed the boys, as the engines were started. An hour later the red dirigible had vanished on its voyage to the north.
The little woman bending over the blouse caught her breath to think of missing the writing of that thank-you to Nelson Randolph! "Oh, no, dear! I won't shirk my duty. It wouldn't look quite the thing for you to do it." "Perhaps it wouldn't," Polly agreed, "though I'd just as lief." "You're a great deal better, aren't you, Miss Nita?" Polly was saying.
"He accepts the sympathy of the rose-bush and the elder ... he says thank-you to the dandelion ... and he's a relation of ours ... oh, shocking!" said the nearest poplar. "Shocking ... shocking ... shocking!" whispered the poplars along the avenue. Then evening came and night; and one and all slept. The wind had gone down, so that there was not even the least whisper in the poplars.
It brought the Princess round again, proving itself thus the note of comprehension she wished most to clutch at. "Don't be afraid." Maggie took it where she stood which she was soon able to signify. "Thank-you." It very properly encouraged her counsellor.
And then, when they are ready to go back to their villas or hotel, take his motor-boat without a thank-you. The colonel has about three thousand pounds outside his half-pay, and they are all crazy to marry him because his sister is a countess. As a bachelor he can live like a prince, but as a married man he would have to dig.
"Business," answered Handy. "Anything in it, or is it a thank-you job?" "Why, my boy, there's a cold five hundred plunks in it. Society ladies on the committee. They will dispose of the tickets. One of them wants to act. I've promised to let her try and give her the opening. 'The Lady of Lyons' will be the play, and I will be the Claude."
Francis rose with scarcely a thank-you, and walked out of the door. "I want a turn in the air before I come to bed," he said. Marjorie said nothing. She was sleepy, as usual would she never get over being sleepy up here? and she laid the instrument on the floor and stretched out thoughtlessly on the window-seat, instead of going off to bed as she had been intending to do.
A single word uttered may reveal grace, or betray awkwardness. In the social interchange, one must not only suit the action to the word, but equally suit the word to the action. Careless speech often belies civil intentions. Say "Thank-you," not "Thanks," a lazy and disrespectful abbreviation. If you say "Pardon me," let your manner indicate a dignified apology.
"Got a bit of tobacco to spare?" he asked. "Mine's all in my swag." "Certainly," I replied. "Are you hard-up? Because I can lend you five bob till we meet again." "No, thank-you. I 've got a couple or three notes left, and even if I hadn't, I'd think twice before I touched your money. Money's a peculiar thing." "Especially in the sense of being peculiar to certain sections of society," I replied.
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