Wait a minute--I'll write his address down for you. Yes,
he is expensive, but very, very thorough." ... "Stew'd, bring me
nozher brand' 'n' sozza." ... "Well, now Mr.--excuse me, I didn't
catch your name?--oh yes, Mr. Blosser; well, Mr. Blosser, if that
isn't the most curious thing! To think of us meeting away out here
in the middle of the ocean and both of us knowing Maxie Hockstein
in Grand Rapids. It only goes to show one thing--this certainly
is a mighty small world." ... "Raymund, did you hear what I said
to you!" ... "Do you really think it is becoming? Thank you for
saying so. That's what my husband always says. He says that white
hair with a youthful face is so attractive, and that's one reason
why I've never touched it up. Touched-up hair is so artificial,
don't you think?" ... "Wasn't the Bay of Naples just perfectly
swell--the water, you know, and the land and the sky and everything,
so beautiful and everything?" ... "You Raymund, come away from
that lifeboat. Why don't you sit down there and behave yourself
and have a nice time watching for whales?" ... "No, ma'am, if
you're askin' me I must say I didn't care so much for that art
gallery stuff--jest a lot of pictures and statues and junk like
that, so far as I noticed. In fact the whole thing--Yurupp itself
--was considerable of a disappointment to me. I didn't run acros't
a single Knights of Pythias Lodge the whole time and I was over
there five months straight hard-runnin'.
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