At Tussie's suggestion when the business part of their talk was over-and it took exactly five minutes for Tussie to sell and Fritzing to buy the cottages, five minutes of the frothiest business talk ever talked, so profound was the ignorance of both parties as to what most people demand of cottages-Fritzing drove to Minehead in the postmistress's son's two-wheeled cart in order to purchase suitable furniture and bring back persons who would paper and paint.
"The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Mrs. Fiske at least had the advantage of the intellectual training of the classic drama, and Della Fox, after her precocious success as a child, was kept faithfully at school for a number of years by stern parental authority; but Fay Templeton during her childhood was continually associated-with the possible exception of Puck-with the lightest and frothiest in the theatrical business.
"Famous Prima Donnas"
Lewis Clinton Strang