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Monica had learned to handle a drink and even "flung my bonnet over the windmill and accepted a cigarette." Except that she had trouble balancing herself on high heels, the nun had become as much a woman of the world as she cared to be. At present, still as devout as when she first entered the convent, she is living in the country...
...better part of Montana to fight in, they presumably did not pick a deep and narrow gulch, largely under water, while hordes of enterprising Sioux lay above poking out their rifles from behind many convenient rocks. An Indian is more apt to wear a battered fedora than a war bonnet. "Western Union's" Indians at least spoke Indian, or a reasonable facsimile of it, while "Buffalo Bill's" dog-warriors muttered monosyllables except for a chosen few who spoke fine idiomatic English, converted to Indian through the deletion of a few conjunctions and the elimination of a few tenses...
...peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with a pursuit that at first threatened to become his entire vocation...
...took Disraeli to put an end to the nonsense. In a brilliant speech in the House of Commons, he exonerated Wheeler, elevated him to the rank of a momentary national hero, and incidentally maneuvered Gladstone into looking like a blackhearted oppressor of the poor. Disraeli, it appears, shared Novelist Bonnet's notion that Wheeler was chiefly a pretty good little symbol of the 1876 "lower classes"-grimy but devoted to the Queen...
There is just enough ingenuity in The Mudlark's conception and skill in its writing to sustain a fine long story. Author Bonnet has chosen to pad it outrageously in order to fill the regulation-size novel. The book suffers as a result, but it is pleasant enough for an afternoon of hammock reading...