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"I would not be left out on any account," said Miss Betsy. "Six hens would be as many as your mother would want, as she isn't planning to run a poultry farm. I am sure Mrs. Horton would like to give a pair she has so many. I'll suggest they send Rhode Island Reds it is better to have all of a kind." "I think it would be more fun to have them different," said Peggy.
The Girl tugged at the lines; but Betsy took the bit between her teeth, and plodded after the Harvester. She pulled with all her might, but her strength was not nearly sufficient to stop the stubborn animal. "Whoa, David!" cried the Girl. "What is it?" the Harvester turned. "Won't you please wait until I can take off my hat?
Fifth Avenue. "Wouldn't it be rich, though, the meeting between your Aunt Betsy and Juno?" and the tears fairly poured down the young man's face. But Wilford was too serious for trifling, and after his merriment had subsided, Mark talked with him candidly, sensibly, of Katy Lennox, whose cause he warmly espoused, telling Wilford that he was far too sensitive with regard to family and position.
The report rattled from hill to hill. My own gun sprang to the shoulder, but it was too late. The fox, seeing me, veered down the slope, and swept on to safety or to death, for six more anxious hunters were watching for him somewhere in those woods. The dogs swept by, old Captain as ever leading, with Betsy at his haunches and Mike and Major neck and neck behind. I watched for little Colonel.
Inconsistency was the underlying strata of the whole Episcopal Church, he said, and as Lucy, without taking any public step, had still declared her preference for that church, he, too, in a measure, charged her propensity for repairs to the same source with Aunt Betsy; but, as he could really see no sin in what she did, he suffered her in most things to have her way.
With a furious frown he cleared his throat and began in a solemn, deep-toned roar, "Dear teacher, learning with regret that you are about to sever your connection," etc., etc. All went well until he came to the words, "We beg you to accept this gift, not for its intrinsic value," etc., which was the cue for Betsy Dan.
To have my provisions regularly served, with nothing to do but lie upon the floor of the hold, or walk about in its narrow limits, was to me sufficient recompense for an evil, which to others would have appeared irremediable. The next tide after we were put on board, the Betsy left Leith Roads, and sailed for Aberdeen, on her progress north.
Strouss, who often brooded on predestination, imbittered all my thoughts by saying, or rather conveying without words, that my poor fathers taint of some Divine ill-will had re-appeared, and even killed his banker. Betsy held most Low-Church views, by nature being a Dissenter. She called herself a Baptist, and in some strange way had stopped me thus from ever having been baptized.
Her eyes are better than ours," suggested Marie. "Kumeer, Ziffa!" shouted Betsy. Zariffa came, and, at the first glance, exclaimed. "A sip!" The news spread in a moment for other and sharper eyes in the village had already observed the sail, and, ere long, the beach was crowded with natives.
Betsy, dressed in the height of the latest fashion, in a hat that towered somewhere over her head like a shade on a lamp, in a blue dress with violet crossway stripes slanting one way on the bodice and the other way on the skirt, was sitting beside Anna, her tall flat figure held erect. Bowing her head, she greeted Alexey Alexandrovitch with an ironical smile. "Ah!" she said, as though surprised.
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