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  • Just then I heard Stella-Rondo raising the upstairs window.†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo sat there and made that up while she was eating breast of chicken.†   (source)
  • So Stella-Rondo yells back, "Who says she can't talk?†   (source)
  • If Stella-Rondo couldn't watch out for her trousseau, somebody had to.†   (source)
  • "Not only talks, she can tap-dance!" calls Stella-Rondo.†   (source)
  • There I was with the whole entire house on Stella-Rondo's side and turned against me.†   (source)
  • "What?" says Stella-Rondo from upstairs.†   (source)
  • So that's your opinion of your Uncle Rondo, is it?" he says.†   (source)
  • "I didn't say any such of a thing, Uncle Rondo," I says, "and I'm not saying who did, either.†   (source)
  • But Stella-Rondo says, "Yes, you did say it too.†   (source)
  • Uncle Rondo and Papa-Daddy didn't even look up, but kept right on with what they were doing.†   (source)
  • "Wah!" says Stella-Rondo, and has a fresh conniption fit.†   (source)
  • Not very good for your Uncle Rondo in his precarious condition, I must say.†   (source)
  • So the first thing Stella-Rondo did at the table was turn Papa-Daddy against me.†   (source)
  • So that made Mama, Papa-Daddy and the baby all on Stella-Rondo's side.†   (source)
  • "Any objections?" asks Uncle Rondo, just about to pour out all the ketchup.†   (source)
  • For six months we all had to call her Stella instead of Stella-Rondo, or she wouldn't answer.†   (source)
  • I says, "What in the wide world's the matter, Stella-Rondo?†   (source)
  • But Stella-Rondo just bawled and wouldn't say another word.†   (source)
  • Uncle Rondo has got the most terrible temper in the world.†   (source)
  • Run upstairs this instant and apologize to Stella-Rondo and Shirley-T. Apologize for what?†   (source)
  • I simply declare that Uncle Rondo looks like a fool in it, that's all," she says.†   (source)
  • Uncle Rondo came out on the porch and threw her a nickel.†   (source)
  • So Uncle Rondo was too dizzy to get turned against me for the time being.†   (source)
  • I stood up for Uncle Rondo, please remember.†   (source)
  • "Well, what are you waiting around for?" asks Uncle Rondo.†   (source)
  • Do you think it wise to disport with ketchup in Stella-Rondo's flesh-colored kimono?†   (source)
  • Don't you notice anything different about Uncle Rondo?" asks Stella-Rondo.†   (source)
  • I beat Stella-Rondo up the stairs and finally found my charm bracelet in her bureau drawer under a picture of Nelson Eddy.†   (source)
  • Papa-Daddy woke up with this horrible yell and right there without moving an inch he tried to turn Uncle Rondo against me.†   (source)
  • I says, "If people want to write their inmost secrets on penny postcards, there's nothing in the wide world you can do about it, Uncle Rondo.†   (source)
  • "I believed to my soul he drank chemicals" And without another word she marches to the foot of the stairs and calls Stella-Rondo.†   (source)
  • So Stella-Rondo says, "Sister says, 'Uncle Rondo certainly does look like a fool in that pink kimono!'†   (source)
  • So I just picked up the kitchen clock and marched off, without saying "Kiss my foot" or anything, and never did tell Stella-Rondo good-bye.†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo is exactly twelve months to the day younger than I am and for that reason she's spoiled.†   (source)
  • And he said on the other hand he thought Stella-Rondo had a brilliant mind and deserved credit for getting out of town.†   (source)
  • So at supper Stella-Rondo speaks up and says she thinks Uncle Rondo ought to try to eat a little something.†   (source)
  • Once she had a little Rondo her way, and Miss Eckhart was so beset about it that the lesson was not like a real lesson at all.†   (source)
  • "You didn't have to tell me, I know whose word of honor don't mean a thing in this house," says Stella-Rondo.†   (source)
  • "He picked a fine day to do it then," says Uncle Rondo, and before you could say "Jack Robinson" flew out in the yard.†   (source)
  • I says, "Well, Stella-Rondo had better thank her lucky stars it was her instead of me came trotting in with that very peculiar-looking child.†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo hadn't done a thing but turn her against me from upstairs while I stood there helpless over the hot stove.†   (source)
  • I says, "Why, Mama, Stella-Rondo had her just as sure as anything in this world, and just too stuck up to admit it."†   (source)
  • "Lie down my foot," says Uncle Rondo.†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo may be telling the most horrible tales in the world about Mr. Whitaker, but I haven't heard them.†   (source)
  • So he didn't do anything that night in the precarious state he was in-just played Casino with Mama and Stella-Rondo and Shirley-T. and gave Shirley-T. a nickel with a head on both sides.†   (source)
  • WHY I LIVE AT THE P.O. I was getting along fine with Mama, Papa-Daddy and Uncle Rondo until my sister StellaRondo just separated from her husband and came back home again.†   (source)
  • And if Stella-Rondo should come to me this minute, on bended knees, and attempt to explain the incidents of her life with Mr. Whitaker, I'd simply put my fingers in both my ears and refuse to listen.†   (source)
  • It wasn't five minutes before Uncle Rondo suddenly appeared in the hall in one of Stella-Rondo's flesh-colored kimonos, all cut on the bias, like something Mr. Whitaker probably thought was gorgeous.†   (source)
  • "Me either," says Stella-Rondo.†   (source)
  • But if you're all determined to have no more to do with the U.S. mail, think of this: What will Stella-Rondo do now, if she wants to tell Mr. Whitaker to come after her?†   (source)
  • "We all are," says Stella-Rondo.†   (source)
  • Uncle Rondo spills out all the ketchup and jumps out of his chair and tears off the kimono and throws it down on the dirty floor and puts his foot on it.†   (source)
  • Once Stella-Rondo did something perfectly horrible to him-broke a chain letter from Flanders Field— and he took the radio back he had given her and gave it to me.†   (source)
  • What's that?" says Uncle Rondo.†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo says, "Can she what?"†   (source)
  • I must say that Uncle Rondo has been marvelous to me at various times in the past and I was completely unprepared to be made to jump out of my skin, the way it turned out.†   (source)
  • Never mind, you won't be found dead in it, because it happens to be part of my trousseau, and Mr. Whitaker took several dozen photographs of me in it," says Stella-Rondo.†   (source)
  • If you had I would of been just as overjoyed to see you and your little adopted girl as I was to see Stella-Rondo, when you wound up with your separation and came on back home.†   (source)
  • All the time he was just lying there swinging as pretty as you please and looping out his beard, and poor Uncle Rondo was pleading with him to slow down the hammock, it was making him as dizzy as a witch to watch it.†   (source)
  • And I said to Stella-Rondo, "I think I would do well not to criticize so freely if I were you and came home with a two-year-old child I had never said a word about, and no explanation whatever about my separation."†   (source)
  • So then Uncle Rondo says, "I'll thank you from now on to stop reading all the orders I get on postcards and telling everybody in China Grove what you think is the matter with them," but I says, "I draw my own conclusions and will continue in the future to draw them."†   (source)
  • Oh, he told Uncle Rondo I didn't learn to read till I was eight years old and he didn't see how in the world I ever got the mail put up at the P.O., much less read it all, and he said if Uncle Rondo could only fathom the lengths he had gone to to get me that job!†   (source)
  • So I hope to tell you I marched in and got that radio, and they could of all bit a nail in two, especially Stella-Rondo, that it used to belong to, and she well knew she couldn't get it back, I'd sue for it like a shot.†   (source)
  • "Good-bye," says Uncle Rondo.†   (source)
  • So Mama says, "Sister, I've told you a thousand times that Stella-Rondo simply got homesick, and this child is far too big to be hers," and she says, "Now, why don't you all just sit down and play Casino?"†   (source)
  • Uncle Rondo was in France.†   (source)
  • What on earth could Uncle Rondo mean by wearing part of my trousseau out in the broad open daylight without saying so much as 'Kiss my foot,' knowing I only got home this morning after my separation and hung my negligee up on the bathroom door, just as nervous as I could be?†   (source)
  • "I asked you the instant I entered this house not to refer one more time to my adopted child, and you gave me your word of honor you would not," was all Stella-Rondo would say, and started pulling out every one of her eyebrows with some cheap Kress tweezers.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I declare," says Mama, "to think that a family of mine should quarrel on the Fourth of July, or the day after, over Stella-Rondo leaving old Mr. Whitaker and having the sweetest little adopted child!†   (source)
  • "Wah!" says Stella-Rondo.†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo?†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo was furious!†   (source)
  • Uncle Rondo!†   (source)
  • Next, Uncle Rondo.†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo!†   (source)
  • Stella-Rondo got furious!†   (source)
  • "A RONDEAU!" said the Jesuit, disdainfully.†   (source)
  • "A RONDEAU!" said the curate, mechanically.†   (source)
  • At that moment Lloyd Mallam, the poet, owner of the Hafiz Book Shop, was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence, but how dull it was in so obvious a place as Zenith.†   (source)
  • "Silence for the rondo, and attention to the refrain,— "~Quand les rats mangeront les cas, Le roi sera seigneur d'Arras; Quand la mer, qui est grande et le(e Sera a la Saint-Jean gele(e, On verra, par-dessus la glace, Sortir ceux d'Arras de leur place~*."†   (source)
  • "And then," said Aramis, pinching his ear to make it red, as he rubbed his hands to make them white, "and then I made a certain RONDEAU upon it last year, which I showed to Monsieur Voiture, and that great man paid me a thousand compliments."†   (source)
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