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an occasional calling down
2011/01/09,02:21
an occasional calling down and a few scratches. If id had the luck to get into aviation or some of the fancy branches david checked himself. There i go, he said in selfdisgust. Beefing again. It was quite in the old, spoiledchild tone an echo of indestructible personality, the weeping scion of other days and it went straight to marys swelling, bewildered, groping heart. She began to laugh and a sob tangled itself in the laughter, and she choked and said buddy. He turned toward her.
ache with longing to
2011/01/09,02:20
ache with longing to hear it in your voice. Youre a queer buddy, returned the girl, not quite steadily. Did you bring me home a german helmet for a souvenir. He shook his head. I didnt bring home much of anything, except some experience and the discovery of the fact that when i had to stand on my own feet, i wasnt much. You got your stripes, didnt you. Suggested the girl. Thats all i did get, he returned jealously. I didnt get any medal, or palms or decorations or crosses of war i didnt get anything except
mayme
2011/01/09,02:19
Mayme. No not mayme any more. He flushed to his temples. I beg your pardon, miss courtenay. Nonsense. She said softly. Mary. Ive discarded the mayme long ago. Mary, he repeated in a tone of musing content. Buddy. He caught his breath. A few thousand of the best guys in the world, he said, call a fellow that. And every time they said it, it made my heart
his face that was
2011/01/09,02:17
his face that was the study. Of that performance i shall say nothing. It is now famous and familiar to thousands of theatergoers. But if ever mortal man spent twenty minutes in fairyland, it was david, while mary was playing the work of his fancy. At the close, he disappeared. I suppose he did not dare trust himself to join in the congratulations with which she was overwhelmed. I found him, as i rather expected, on the bench where he had sat when mayme mccartney first found him. And when the crowd had departed from the studio, i told the girl. Without even stopping to put on her hat she
was only too obviously
2011/01/09,02:16
was only too obviously her adoring slave. Already there had been hints of their engagement. Had i been that ace, i should have felt no small discomposure at the sight of the girls face when she first saw the changed and matured weeping scion of three years before. After the first flash of recognition she had developed on that expressive face of hers a look of wonder and almost pathetic questioning, and, i thought, who knew and loved the child, already something deeper and sweeter. Young david, after greeting the star of the evening, took a modest rear seat as befitted his rank. But when the bonnie lassie announced doggy, it was
urged him to pass
2011/01/09,02:15
urged him to pass on from that unchancy spot. All that he could learn about the basement dweller was that his name was lukisch and he owed for his rent. Mr. Lukisch had nothing special against the queer old party who made sheeps eyes at his clock every day. He hated him quite impartially, as he hated everybody. Mr. Lukisch had a bad heart in more senses than one, and a grudge against the world which he blamed for the badness of his heart. Also he had definite ideas of reprisal, which were focused by a dispossess notice, and directed particularly upon the person and
Oh, dominie. Said the
2011/01/09,02:14
Oh, dominie. Said the girl, with such reproach that my heart sank within me. Do you think that was fair. Dont you know that i never could have taken the money. Precisely. And we had to find a way to make you take it. We couldnt have you dying on the premises, i argued with a feeble attempt at jocularity. But from him. She said. After what had happenedand his mother. How could you let me do it. I thought you would have gotten over that feeling by this time, i
willy woolly from the
2011/01/09,02:13
willy woolly from the house of silvery voices, and admirably he played it, barking accurately and with true histrionic fervor in the right places besides promptly falling in love with the star at the first and only rehearsal. After the tryout, mary came over to my bench with a check for a rather dazzling sum in her hand, and said that now was the time to settle accounts, but she never could repayand so forth and so on all put so sweetly and genuinely that i heartily wished i might accept the thanks if not the check. Instead of which i blurted out the truth.
No announcements, even of
2011/01/09,02:12
No announcements, even of the most modest description, heralded the arrival of sergeant major if you please. David berthelin upon his native shores. He came at once to our square and tackled the little red doctor. Where is she. He asked. The little red doctor assumed an air of incredulous surprise. Have you still got that bee in your bonnet. Said he. Where is she. Repeated the weeping scion. Maneuvering for time and counsel, the little red doctor took him to see
At that, you were
2011/01/09,02:10
At that, you were all wrong about buddy. He was a lot decenter than you thought only he was brought up wrong. Give him my love as one pal to another. I hope he dont come back a hero. Im offen heroes, too. Excuse again. Wars and exiles alike come to an end in time. And in time our two wanderers returned, but mary first, david having been sent into germany with the army of occupation. Modest announcements in the theatrical columns informed an indifferent theatergoing world that miss marie courtenay, an actress new to broadway, was to play the ingenue part in
the latest comedy by
2011/01/09,02:10
the latest comedy by a highly popular dramatist. Immediately upon the production, the theatergoing world ceased to be indifferent to the new actress in fact, it went into one of its occasional furores about her. Not that she was in any way a great genius, but she had a certain indefinable and winningly individual quality. The critics discussed it gravely and at length, differing argumentatively as to its nature and constitution. I could have given them a hint. My predictions regarding the ancestral potencies of the monkeyface were being abundantly justified.
Did you think i
2011/01/09,02:09
Did you think i would not know it was david. Why, bless your dear, silly heart, i told him some of those stories myself. But how does he get a chance to write them. Is he back on this side. Or is he invalided. Or what. Tell me. I want to know about him. You do not have to worry about mywell, my infatuation for him, any more. He was a pretty boy, though, wasnt he. But i have seen too many of that kind in the picture game. Im spoiled for them. How i would love to smear some of their pretty, smirky faces. They give me a queer feeling in my breakfast. Excuse me i forgot i was a lady. But dont say pretty to me any more. Im through.
fritzie before the show
2011/01/09,02:08
fritzie before the show is over. Thereafter the little red doctor exhibited, but read to us only in small parts, quite bulky communications from overseas. Some of them, it became known, he was forwarding to our little mary, out in the far west. With her answer came the solution. Some of the grass and asphalt sketches are wonders some not so good. I am going to try out doggy if i can find a poodle with enough intelligence to support me. But you need not have been so mysterious, doc, about your young amateur writer who seems to have some talent.
negotiations had been frustrated
2011/01/09,02:07
negotiations had been frustrated by a crabbed and violentlooking man with a repellent club. Nevertheless, the voice alone had ensnared the connoisseur it was, by the test of the pipe which he carried on all his quests, d in alt, and would thus complete the major chord of a chime which he had long been building up. She had loved, best of all, harmonic combinations of the clock bells. Every day he would halt in front of the place and wait to hear it strike, and its owner would peer out from behind it and shake a wasted fist and curse him with strange, hoarse foreign oaths, while willy woolly tugged at his trouser leg and
In the correspondence from
2011/01/09,02:06
In the correspondence from sergeant berthelin there came a long hiatus followed by a curt bit of official information seriously wounded. The little red doctor brought the news to me, with a queer expression on his face. It doesnt look good, dominie, he said. You know, my old friend, death, is a shrewd picker. Hes got an eye for men. He mused, rubbing his tousled, brickish locks with a nervous hand. I was getting to kind of like that young pup, he muttered moodily. The saying that no news is good news was surely concocted by some one
fellow can get himself
2011/01/09,02:04
fellow can get himself made a captain by pull, or a major by luck, or a colonel by deskwork, or a general by having a fine martial figure, but to get yourself made a sergeant, by gosh, youve got to show the stuff. Youve got to be a man. Youve got to have are you going to tell her. Interrupted the bonnie lassie who had been sent for to share the news. The little red doctor fell suddenly grave. Shes another matter, he said. I dont think i shall. Matters were going forward with maymebeg her pardon, mary mccartney,
scion kept his head
2011/01/09,02:03
scion kept his head and his nerve, and made good. A corporals stripes arent much, but theyre something. Better was to come. There was high triumph in the little red doctors expression when he came to my bench with the glad tidings of young davids promotion to a sergeantcy. While its very gratifying, i remarked, it doesnt seem to me an epochmaking event. Doesnt it. Retorted my friend. Thats because of your abysmal military ignorance, dominie. Let me tell you how it is in our army. A
indeed, from broadway, having
2011/01/09,02:02
indeed, from broadway, having been shifted to a specially wet and muddy section of france and was taking them as he found them. That is to say, he had learned the prime lesson of war. And hes been made corporal, announced the little red doctor with satisfaction. That sounds encouraging, remarked the bonnie lassie. How did it happen. He went over on one of the flu ships, and when the epidemic began to mow em down there was a kind of panic. From what i can make out, the
switch. Tell the little
2011/01/09,02:01
switch. Tell the little red doctor that it is so long since i coughed i have forgotten how. And i love you all so hard that it hurts. Your loving mary mccartney p.s. I am going to be marie courtenay when i get my name up in the pictures. Put that in the directory and see how it looks. P.s.2. How is my soldier boy getting along. Poor kid. I expect he is finding it a lot different from broadway with money in your pocket. About this time the weeping scion was finding things very different,
What do you think.
2011/01/09,02:00
What do you think. Wrote our exile. Theyve got my funny little monkey mug in the movies. Five per and steady work. The director likes me and says he will give me a real chance one of these days. But, as the dominie would say, this is a hell of a place. Graceless imp. I would not say it myself, because i am a perfect lady. You have to be, out here. That reminds me i have cut out the mayme. Every fresh little frizzle in the colony with a false front and a pneumatic figure calls herself mayme or daisye or tootsye. Not for me. I am keeping up my lessons and trying to make my head good for something besides carrying a
regiment are beginning to
2011/01/09,01:59
regiment are beginning to show interest, and he doesnt like it. I believe hed desert if it werent that hes 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. The promise goes, of course. Im
going to show you
2011/01/09,01:59
going to show you and her that im not yellow. So that was still rankling salutary, if bitter dose. But if this war ever finishes, all bets are off and im coming back to find her. And dont you forget your part of the bargain, to write and let me know how she is getting on. The little red doctor was able to send progressively encouraging news. When the cold weather came, mayme moved westward to southern california, and found herself on the edge of one of the strange, tumultuous, semiinsane movingpicture colonies of that region. Thence issued, presently, stirring tidings.
them. They lent distinction
2011/01/09,01:58
them. They lent distinction to the locality by getting written up in a sunday supplement, willy woolly being specially photographed therefor, a gleam of transient glory, which, however it may have gratified our local pride, left both of the subjects quite indifferent. Stepfather time might have paid more heed to it had he not, at the time, been wholly preoccupied in a difficult quest. In a basement window, far over on avenue d, stood an old and battered timepiece of which stepfather time had heard the voice but never seen the face. Each of three attempts to investigate with a view to
having come to say
2011/01/09,01:57
having come to say goodbye, put her lips close to my ear and tried to whisper something, and cried and kissed me instead. Our square was a dimmer and duller place after she left. But her letters helped. They were so exactly like herself. Even at the first, when things seemed to be going ill with her, they were all courage, and quaint humor and determination to get well and come back to our square, which was the dearest and best place in the world with the dearest and best people in it. Homesickness. Poor little, lonely mayme. She was readingshe wrote the bonnie lassieall the books that the dominie had
weeper. Tell her somebody
2011/01/09,01:56
weeper. Tell her somebody else is doing it. Tell her its from that whitewhiskered oldfrom the elderly and handsome gentleman with the benevolent expres yes i know, i broke in. Very good. Im the goat. Lying, hypocrisy, false pretense, fake charity its all one to a sinseared old reprobate like me. After its over ill go around the corner and steal what pennies i can find in blind simons cup, just to make me feel comparatively respectable and decent again. It was no easier than i expected it to be, especially when little mayme,
There are times, dominie,
2011/01/09,01:55
There are times, dominie, when your mind has real penetrative power. Think it over. The weeping scion of wealth and position. I cried. Did our medical friend blackmail him. Not necessarily. He only dropped a hint that maymes chance here was rather poorer than a soldiers going to war, unless something could be done and the weeping scion fairly begged to be allowed to do it. Do you think shed take it from you. Said the little red doctor, after what your mother called her. Dont let her know, says our ornamental young
plenty. You are a
2011/01/09,01:54
plenty. You are a good old thing, dominie. What you mean is that im an old goodthing. How shall i look, i demanded bitterly, when mayme comes to thank me. No foolisher than you do now, trying to raise unreasonable objections to our perfectly good plans, retorted the bonnie lassie. Besides, she wont. She knows that your way is to do good by stealth and blush to find it fame, and shes under pledge to pretend to know nothing about it. Where did the little red doctor raise it. I queried.
How much is it.
2011/01/09,01:53
How much is it. What do you want it for. I havent got that much, i hastily remarked. And to keep it an absolute secret from everybody. Even from mayme herself. Go on. Dont mind me, i murmured. The little red doctor has found the place. Its in new mexico. And in the fall shes going on to the coast. Hes almost willing to guarantee that a year of it will make her as strong as ever. And the hundred dollars a month you allow her besides her traveling expenses will be
The bonnie lassie raised
2011/01/09,01:52
The bonnie lassie raised her eyebrows at me, affecting aggrieved innocence. Wont do what. She inquired. Whatever it is that youre trying to wheedle me into. The eyebrows resumed their normal arch, and a dimple flickered in the corner of the soft lips. By this i knew that the case was hopeless. Oh, but youve already done it, she said. Help. Tell me the worst and get it over with. It must be lovely to be rich, said the bonnie lassie meditatively. And so generous.
he indulge in those
2011/01/09,01:50
he indulge in those divagations so dear to the normal canine heart. Other dogs and their ways interested him not. Cats simply did not exist in his circumscribed life. Even to the shining mark of a boy on a bicycle he was indifferent, and when a dog has reached that stage one may safely say of him that he has renounced the world and all its vanities. Willy woollys one concern in life was his master and their joint business. Soon they became accepted familiars of our square. Despite the general conviction that they were slightly touched, we even became proud of
Id rather see a
2011/01/09,01:49
Id rather see a son of mine dead than a common soldier. Cried mrs. Berthelin. The bonnie lassie, very white, rose. You must leave this house, she said. At once. Think yourself fortunate that i cannot bring myself to betray a guest. Otherwise i should report you to the authorities. Young david addressed mayme in the words and tone of a misunderstood and aggrieved pet. You think im no good. Ill show you, mayme. Wait till i come backif i ever do come backand youll be sorry. Hero stuff, commented the little red doctor. Itll all have oozed out
David. Said his mother.
2011/01/09,01:48
David. Said his mother. Where are you going. To enlist. Davey. It was a shriek. You shant. I will. I wont let you. You can go to buddy. Maymes voice, magically softened, broke in. Cut out the rough stuff. You better go home and think it over. Bein a private is no pinksilk picnic.
Thats another lie, said
2011/01/09,01:46
Thats another lie, said mayme. He told me himself that he was going to marry you. Did he. Then hes wrong. I wouldnt marry him with a brass ring, asserted mayme. You wouldnt maryou wouldnt what. Demanded the mother, outraged and incredulous. You heard me. He knows it, too. I dont like the familywhat ive seen of them, observed mayme judicially. Besides, hes yellow. Davids shamed face emerged into view. Im not, he gulped. Sheshe
said the irrepressible mayme
2011/01/09,01:45
said the irrepressible mayme at the conclusion of the duel which ended in her favor. The little red doctor gurgled. I saw the bonnie lassies eyelids quiver, but her face was cold and impassive as she turned to the visitor. Mrs. Berthelin, said she, you have made some very damaging statements, before witnesses, about miss mccartneys character. What proof have you. Why, he wants to marry her. Almost yelled the mother. Shes trapped him.
live at home in
2011/01/09,01:44
live at home in the comfort and luxury suitable to his wealth and condition. And what she wanted us to understand clearly was that no designing little guttersnipe was to be allowed to compromise davids future. She concluded with an imaginative and most unflattering estimate of mayme mccartneys character, manners, and morals, in the midst of which i heard a gasp. It came from mayme, standing, wideeyed and white, in the doorway. The front door had been left ajar, and, seeing the berthelins monogrammed car outside, she had come in. The oratress turned and stared.
history and forecast of
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history and forecast of his career, beginning with his precocious infant lispings and terminating with his projected, though wholly indefinite, marriage into the highest social circles. To do david justice, he squirmed. Have you got him a job as a general in the army yet, maam. Inquired the little red doctor suavely. It was quite lost upon mrs. Berthelin. She informed us that a commission as captain in the quartermasters department was arranged for, and she expected to have the young officer assigned to new york so that he could
quite as genuine as
2011/01/09,01:42
quite as genuine as that of mrs. Berthelins to get in, the cyrus statens frequently figure among the shining ones, a fact almost painfully appreciated by our visitor. After that it was easy to get her into the bonnie lassies house, where her eloquence could not draw a crowd. To get young david there was not quite so easy. He made one welltimed and almost successful effort to bolt, and even evinced signs of balking on the steps. His punishment was awaiting him. No sooner were we all settled in the bonnie lassies studio than the mother proceeded to regale us with a
Tis a feckless waste
2011/01/09,01:41
Tis a feckless waste of time. Very likely. Twill encourage the pair, when a man of yer age and influence in our square should be dissuadin them. Perhaps they need a friendly word. Maclachan frowned. Yere determined. Oh, quite. Then ill give ye a title for yer romance. Thats very kind of you. Give it.
ingratitude of a woman
2011/01/09,01:40
ingratitude of a woman in love, is a dear little red idiot. What does he know about us. Barbran immediately upon hearing of my fell design maclachan, the tailor, paid a visit of protest to my bench. Is it true fact that i hear, dominie. What do you hear, maclachan. That yere to make one of yer silly histories about barbran. Perfectly true, said i, passing over the uncomplimentary adjective.
property of his landlord.
2011/01/09,01:39
property of his landlord. The clock he needed as the instrument of his vengeance therefore he would not have sold it at any price to the sheepeyed old lunatic of the pushcart, who now, on the eve of his eviction, stood gazing in with wistful contemplation. Presently he passed on and mr. Lukisch resumed his tinkering with the clocks insides. He was very delicate and careful about it, for these were the final touches, preparatory to his leaving the timepiece as a memento when he should quietly depart that evening, shortly before nine. What might happen after nine, or, rather, on the stroke of nine, was no worry
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