He was, after all, a bit of a show-off when he could get away with it.

Bands no longer play the forces into the fight indeed I have seen no more bands afield with the dun-colored files of the Germans than I might count on the fingers of my two hands; and flags, except on rare show-off occasions, do not float above the heads of the columns; and officers dress as nearly as possible like common soldiers; and the courier's work is done with much less glamour

<pb id='055.png' n='1952h1/A/0283' /> KELLY, GEORGE The show-off.

The show-off, a novel, from the play by George Kelly.

<pb id='055.png' n='1952h1/A/0283' /> KELLY, GEORGE The show-off.

The show-off, a novel, from the play by George Kelly.

The English-speaking French lad wanted either Shakespeare or Milton, and as I laid the books on the table for him, he told his comrade who the two authors were, and promised to explain it all to him, and there wasn't a sign of show-off in it either.

Our feelings can be judged when across the tracks came only a mob of thirty or forty cowboys, riding in their usual "show-off" style.

I do not know how pictures could have been greener or bluer or yellower or redder, and when the show-off man called my attention to them, as calculated to make the place cheerful; I recognized their merit, but suggested that some paper blinds might be desirable to keep the sun from shining into the faces of the men who lay on the cots.

Without that spirit of "show-off," what would induce our knights to meet in glorious tournaments?

I do not belittle it, since from this spirit of "show-off" arises one great goodrespect for the opinion of our fellow-man.

So Max, with a dash of "show-off" in his disposition, laughed at Yolanda's fears and answered that he was in no danger.