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I intend to have a serious conversation with him after tea." "Father has this moment come in, and he asked me to tell you that he had business letters which he is obliged to write." "I know what that means." "Oh! Mary!" interpolated Aunt Aggie eagerly. "You forget that Algernon always, from the time he was a young man, left his letters to the last moment. All the Bellairs do."
"Oh Lord," groaned Jimmy, who had come to regard any elation on Zoie's or Aggie's part as a sure forewarner of ultimate discomfort for him. Again Aggie had recourse to the 'phone. "Hello," she called to the office boy, "tell that woman to go around to the back door, and we'll send something down to her."
She had herself gone to Jim Tenny's house that evening, and called him to account, to learn that he had seriously taken her resolution not to marry at present to proceed from a fear that he would not provide properly for her, and that he had in this state of indignation been easily led by the sight of Aggie Bemis's pretty face in her front door, as he drove by, to stop.
"Yes, Aggie, I don't see any harm in your going out with him. I am sure he will only take you when it is fine, and he will look after you well. You like him, don't you?" "Oh! I do, grampa; and you know, it was him who got me out of the water, else I should never have come out, and never have seen grampa again; and he has made me a boat. Oh! yes, I do like him!"
Longdon, not a little of her gravity. "Is it all right?" "I don't know" his answer was to Aggie. "There have been some horrid things in English history." "Oh horrid HAVEN'T there?" Aggie, whose speech had the prettiest faintest foreignness, sweetly and eagerly quavered. "Well, darling, Mr.
"I'm muckle obleeged to ye, Miss Elsie," replied Cosmo. "It'll save me a half-mile i' the mornin'." "An' my father says," resumed Elsie, addressing Agnes, "yer wark's no worth yer wages." Aggie turned upon her with flashing eyes and glowing face. "I dinna believe ye, Miss Elsie," she said. "I dinna believe yer father said ever sic a word.
Aggie remembered how once, in her thoughtful maiden days, she had read in one of the vicar's books a saying which had struck her at the time, for the vicar had underlined it twice. "If there is aught spiritual in man, it is the Will." She had not thought of John as a very spiritual person.
Aggie was sitting alone by the fire, waving a brand round her head to keep off mosquitoes, and in front of her, dangling from the spit, were a dozen pairs of frogs' legs in a row. I ate six pairs without a question and then I asked for Tish. "Catching frogs," said Aggie laconically, and flourished the brand. "Where?" "Pulling them off the trees. Where do you think she gets them?" she demanded.
We'd get considerable business if there was one this summer." At that moment the crackling outside increased, and a shadowy form emerged from the bushes. Even Bill stood up, and Aggie screamed. It was, however, only poor Mr. Bell. "Mind if I borrow some matches?" he said gruffly. "We can't lend matches," Tish replied. "At least, I don't see the use of sending them back after they've been lighted.
"How do you suppose that red baby will ever look in this pink basket?" she asked. And then with a regretful little sigh, she declared that she wished she'd "used blue." "I didn't think the baby that we chose was so horribly red," said Aggie. "Red!" cried Zoie, "it's magenta." And again her thread broke. "Oh, darn!" she exclaimed in annoyance, and once more rethreaded her needle.
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