Booth Tarkington

Name: Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII
Author: Booth Tarkington

Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

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“Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII”, published in 1916, is a work by Booth Tarkington. It explores elements such as Pratt, William and Genesis.

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Booth Tarkington, Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

“ He corrected himself. "Uncivilized! And to think Miss Pratt has to find that out in my house! To think—"
"Now, Willie," said Mrs. Baxter, gently, "you'd better go up and brush your hair again before your friends come. You mustn't let yourself get so excited."
"'Excited!'" he cried, incredulously. "Do you think I'm excited? Ye gods!"
He smote his hands together and, in his despair of her intelligence, would have flung himself down upon a chair, but was arrested half-way by simultaneous loud outcries from his mother and Jane.
"Don't sit on the cakes!" they both screamed. ”

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Booth Tarkington, Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

“ Jane broke off a small bit of the wafer. She gave the bit to Clematis and slowly ate what remained, continuing to watch Genesis and apparently unconscious of the scorching gaze from the window.
"I never saw anything as disgusting as long as I've lived!" William announced. "I wouldn't 'a' believed it if anybody'd told me a sister of mine would eat after—"
"I didn't," said Jane. "I like Clematis, anyway."
"Ye gods!" her brother cried. "Do you think that makes it any better? And, by the way," he continued, in a tone of even greater severity, "I'd a like to know where you got those cakes. ”

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Booth Tarkington, Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

“ William returned the cardboard box to its drawer with reverent haste; then, increasing the haste, but dropping the reverence, he hied himself to the pantry with such advantage of longer legs that within the minute he and the wafers appeared in conjunction before his mother, who was arranging fruit and flowers upon a table in the "living-room." ”

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Booth Tarkington, Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

“ You know what he's got on!"
"It's a sort of sleeveless jersey he wears, Willie, I think."
"No, you don't think that!" he cried, with great bitterness. "You know it's not a jersey! You know perfectly well what it is, and yet you expect to keep him out there when—when one of the one of the nobl—when my friends arrive! And they'll think that's our dog out there, won't they? When intelligent people come to a house and see a dog sitting out in front, they think it's the family in the house's dog, don't they?" ”

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Booth Tarkington, Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

“ Baxter and Jane heard him calling loudly to the industrious Genesis:
"Here! You go cut the grass in the back yard, and for Heaven's sake, take that dog with you!"
"Grass awready cut roun' back," responded the amiable voice of Genesis, while the lawnmower ceased not to whir. "Cut all 'at back yod 's mawnin'."
"Well, you can't cut the front yard now. Go around in the back yard and take that dog with you."
"Nemmine 'bout 'at back yod! Ole Clem ain' trouble nobody."
"You hear what I tell you?" William shouted. "You do what I say and you do it quick!"
Genesis laughed gaily. "I got my grass to cut!" ”

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Booth Tarkington, Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

“ A few detached phrases fell from him: "—Invite my friends—children's party—ye gods!—think Miss Pratt plays dolls—"
"Jane will be very good," his mother said. "I shouldn't think of not having her, Willie, and you needn't bother about your friends; they'll be very glad to see her. They all know her, except Miss Pratt, perhaps, and—" Mrs. Baxter paused; then she asked, absently: "By the way, haven't I heard somewhere that she likes pretending to be a little girl, herself?" ”

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Booth Tarkington, Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

“ He felt that she must never see it, especially as the frame had been chipped and had a corner broken, but it was more pleasantly effective where he found it than where (in his nervousness) he left it. ”

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Booth Tarkington, Seventeen (novel) — Chapter XII (1916)

“ Baxter. She shook her head and uttered the enigmatic words, "They do."
"I mean Willie, mamma," said Jane. "If it's anything about Miss Pratt. he always talks awful funny. Don't you think Willie talks awful funny if it's anything about Miss Pratt, mamma?"
"Yes, but—"
"What, mamma?" Jane asked as her mother paused.
"Well—it happens. People do get like that at his age, Jane."
"Does everybody?"
"No, I suppose not everybody. Just some."
Jane's interest was roused. "Well, do those that do, mamma," she inquired, "do they all act like Willie?"
"No," said Mrs. Baxter. "That's the trouble ”

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