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I think, if when you see Ada digging up the bottle, you go to her and say that unless she returns the money and Libbie's first note to you and promises to let the matter drop forever you will expose her Edentown trip to Mrs. Eustice, she will listen to reason." "So do I," agreed Betty. "I don't think she has touched the money she has plenty. But I must have the note so that Libbie can destroy it.

Accordingly, when Ada, by reason of her improved position and higher salary, moved away from the Bloomsbury lodgings into a house of her own, she gave the child over to the care of her dresser, Martha, now Mrs. Wilfer, and had always paid regularly for her board and keep. Mr.

'No, said Phyllis, 'I cannot come to dance, but Ada wants you to leave off playing. She says the music makes her unhappy, for it makes her think about to-morrow. 'Rather selfish, Miss Ada, said Claude. 'Stay here, Phyllis, now you are come, said Mr. Mohun, 'I will go and speak to Ada.

That was the beginning of a friendship that made poor Mrs. Wallace groan outwardly as well as inwardly. Pauline and Ada found that they liked each other even more than they had expected to. They walked, rowed, berried and picnicked together. Ada did not go to Mrs. Boyd's a great deal, for some instinct told her that Mrs.

"By the way," he continued, as they walked to the door together, "I have just left Ada in tears, poor girl; repentance followed closely on repletion. She vows solemnly to refrain from onions and patchouli for the future, and begs for the return of your favour." Leroy smiled gravely at his companion's flippant tones.

"Of Adelheid yes. I was always called Ada in my father's house. But it is not at all remarkable that the same sounds are repeated in different languages." The words were spoken coldly, but the speaker did not raise her eyes from the flowers with which her hand played. "Not at all," agreed Hartmut.

Newton. Do get me something big enough to make us all comfortable, and I can share with Ada with Mrs. Frederic. I do so want to take my mother abroad, and I could not leave Ada and the boys unless they were well provided for." "Make your mind easy; the court will allow you a handsome income. So you must cheer up, in spite of the infliction of a large fortune," added Mr.

The young gentleman at the extreme bottom or public end of the table was Mr. Spinks. He was almost blatantly visible from the street. At Mr. Spinks's side sat Miss Ada Bishop, the young lady in the fascinating pink blouse; and opposite him, Miss Flossie Walker, in the still more fascinating blue. To the left of Miss Bishop in the very centre of the table was a middle-aged commercial gentleman, Mr.

Who would recognize in this slender, graceful figure, clad in a simple, summer frock, the proud, cold court beauty in her laces and jewels? The smile, the tone in which she spoke to her father and husband, Frau von Wallmoden had never known, for it was Ada Falkenried who had learned it. "You can go no farther to-day," said the general, standing still.

"It's all very well to laugh, Cyrus," I answered, "but I don't believe in putting difficulties into life that aren't there already, and that's what sending young men and young women off to the same college seems to ME!" When Peggy came home engaged, after her last year, everybody was surprised. "I'm sure I don't know what Cyrus expected," I said to Ada.