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I am so glad it did somebody good! I fear it did not do me much. I will sing it to you now, if you like." And she rose to get the music. But that instant Judy, who, I then found, had left the room, bounded into it, with the exclamation, "Auntie, auntie! here's grannie!" Miss Oldcastle turned pale. I confess I felt embarrassed, as if I had been caught in something underhand.
I think he's something between a pilgrim and a vagabond, a knight-errant from somewhere between Heaven and the true Bohemia, a despiser of shams and vanities, a man so much bigger than I am that he can make me what he is in spite of himself." "Hermia! A Bohemian! Such a person will hardly be found " "O Auntie, you don't understand. I'm not likely to find him.
How upon one occasion, to escape the watchful eyes of Auntie Lisbeth, he had been compelled to hide a slice of jam-tart in the trousers-pockets, to the detriment of each; how Dorothy had watched him everywhere in the momentary expectation of "something happening;" how Jane and Peter and cook would stand and stare and shake their heads at him because he ate such a lot, "an' the worst of it was I was aw full' hungry all the time, you know, Uncle Dick!"
Of course, it's not my affair. I shouldn't have presumed to advise." She rose and moved toward the door. "Good night, Mr. Kendrick," she said. "Good night, Captain Bangs. Auntie, you will excuse me, won't you? I am rather tired tonight, and " But once more Kendrick interrupted. "One moment, please, Miss Howes," he said, earnestly.
"It would look better for Fly to sit on the anchor," said Mrs. Allen, smiling. "It is droll enough to see such a big thing walking off with a little girl under it. Come, children, we have bought all we can carry." "Thank you kindly, lady," said the evergreen woman, with another courtesy. "I don't see why she need thank you kindly, auntie," said Dotty.
"Well, it would. You just try it sometime, and see." "But, auntie, I " Pollyanna stopped and eyed her aunt reflectively. An odd look came to her eyes; a slow smile curved her lips. Mrs. Chilton, who had turned back to her work, paid no heed; and, after a minute, Pollyanna lay back on the couch without finishing her sentence, the curious smile still on her lips.
"Your home does not seem to be a happy one," he said at length. "It wouldn't be, if they could have their way. It used to be different when auntie was alive. Now my cousin beats me badly enough, and Uncle John believes all she tells him about me. But I always get even with her. She expected her beau from a neighboring village to come to town.
"Across the FIELDS? Have you walked all the way from the depot?" "Yes, sir. The man said it was a quarter to ride, and auntie said I must be careful of my money because " "By the big dipper! Come in! Come in out of that this minute!"
"Look for the plain and rugged characteristics when he next calls," said Mrs. Arnot quietly. "One would have supposed that such a rugged nature would have interposed some of his angles in your way." "Forgive me, auntie; I am inclined to think that I know very little about your knight; but it is natural that I should much prefer my own.
And indeed The Woman made such a fine story for the visitors, encouraging them along any and every bypath that their imagination might suggest, that not even Auntie Elspie could recognise her quiet, unassuming, reticent boy in the prancing warrior that Mrs. Johnnie Dunn permitted the representatives of the press to create.
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