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"But what will that have to do with Grace Montgomery?" "You'll find out then how popular she is." "I will, and so will she," chuckled Jennie, suddenly all a-smile. "You don't believe she will have the most votes?" "Not, unless she puts them all in herself," laughed Jennie. "Why! if Grace had a chance to be class president I'd go into sackcloth and ashes during the rest of the year."
Here was I with the thing I valued most in the world still clutched in my hand, and not a nickel to my name to get me, the paper, and the baby on our way. It was the baby, of course, that decided me. You can't be very enterprising when you're carrying a pink lump of sweetness that's all a-smile at the moment, but may get all a-tear the next.
Short girls, tall girls, thin girls, plump girls and the very plumpest girl of her age that Ruth had ever seen, stood right at the top of the steps. She had a pretty, pink, doll-like face which was perpetually a-smile. Whereas some of the girls especially the older ones stared rather haughtily at the two Infants, this fat girl welcomed them with a broadening smile.
He tiptoed out, all a-smile. His wife's dressing-room had been a "holy of holies" to this simple-minded old man, and Frances reminded him every day, more and more strongly, of the woman whom he had worshiped for a few happy years. Frances did not hasten with her preparations, however. She sat down and spread the gewgaws out before her on the dresser.
The partner into whose office she penetrated by virtue of her sheer determination to see someone in authority, was a stout ruddy Marseillais, speaking French in the full-throated Southern fashion; he was kindly and cheery, with broad vermilion lips a-smile through his beard. "Yes, we want a typist," he admitted; "but I'm afraid" his amiable brown eyes scrutinized her with manifest doubt.
She never frets over things." Mrs. Ware looked down into Mary's face, still a-smile with the thought of her sister's pleasure, and said: "Mary is to have a little slice of this, too.
Their gray uniforms were quite new and the gilt letters "J.W.B.B." on their caps shone brightly. They marched along with their miniature muskets and fixed bayonets, their chubby, kissable faces all a-smile, as they sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers," with words adapted by their pastor: "Onward, Christian soldiers, 'Gainst the heathen crew! In the name of Jesus Let us run them through."
Wherever the white children went about the plantation there was sure to be a crowd of colored boys and girls tagging them. After the first day Mother Bunker was reassured that nothing could happen to her brood, because there were so many of the colored men about the grounds to look after them. As in the house, a black or brown face, broadly a-smile, was likely to appear almost anywhere.
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