She performed the trifle gracefully, and it seemed of value audacious and yet nothing to be misunderstood by a really clean-minded man.

She tapped the judge again as they left, with a minor variation of the technic.

The judge little knew that he but served as a dummy at target practice.
The car in which Wilbur conveyed his guest to the scene of revelry was not of an elegance commensurate with Winona's.

It was a mongrel of many makes, small, battered, and of a complaining habit.

He had acquired it as a gift from one who considered that he bestowed trash, and had transformed it into a thing of noisy life, knowing, as a mother knows of her infant, what each of its squeaks and rattles implied.