You pump your friends dry and tell themnothing
about yourself.
We met for dinner at theCock Horse Tavern. Sure,
Horton came out in his broad Iowa accent, putting his handgently on the boys
shoulder. You pump your friends dry and tell themnothing about
yourself.
Starwick made no answer for a moment, but sat
looking out acrossthe river.
Why, I say, its your old friend and
drunkencompanion, Eugene Gant, who brought you home last night.
If you want to hear the littlebirdies sing, Ill buy
you a canary.
Rather,he snapped his fingers sharply, and cried
Heel! Damned little thing that doesnt take up a foot ofspace. We met for dinner at
theCock Horse Tavern. Surely it is better to have some kind oftalent, however small,
than none at all.
But itsdifferent with us artists, isnt it,
Starwick? Ittakes every cent I can get to keep up with em.
Robert brokeinto his sudden, hoarse, falsetto
laugh: The damnedest place Iever saw!
Then, in a feverish staccato monologue, he
continued: Thedamnedest story you ever heard. Robert asked, pointing to some
dirtyshirts he had thrown there.
Well, then, if we cant go along to hear the little
birdies singto Mr.
I can write just as well with a hole in theseat of
my breeches as not.
We met for dinner at theCock Horse Tavern. Ill wear
thispair of pants till it falls off me. Therest of them HATED it, he whispered
wildly.
Why, I say, its your old friend and
drunkencompanion, Eugene Gant, who brought you home last night.
He snapped his fingers and the little dog came
trotting meeklytoward him. No, he said coldly, Iconfess I see nothing extraordinary
about that at all. And think what a treatit will be for all the little
birdies.
Letme have the worst, the worst, I beg of
you.
However, I already knewwho you were when your
invitation came.
Why, thats what Im telling you, he said
impatiently. Do you remember the first time I met you?
Ihave not got that great well of life and power in
me, and I couldnot speak as you do if I tried. And yet you wonder why people are
surprised atyour behaviour!
Therefore, he cautioned Robert to keep quiet, and
went toWangs door and knocked. Have you had a bath since you came to Harvard?