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"Come and have tea with me, little girl," she said. "Could I, like this?" asked Betty wistfully, pulling back her rain-coat to show her gym. suit and the tightly braided pig-tails tucked inside. Miss Ferris laughed. "I shouldn't mind, but some one else might drop in. It takes me ten minutes to make tea. Now run!" Exactly nine minutes and a half later.
"We must be off to search for him without delay," said Fred Westly, rising. "It's right ye are, sor," cried Flinders, springing up. "Off to-night an' not a moment to lose." "We'll talk it over first, boys," said Paul. "Come with me. I've a friend in the camp as'll help us." "Did you not bring the piece of bark?" asked Betty of the boy, as the men went out. "Oh! I forgot.
His long speech had given Betty time to recover from his first announcement, and her eyes were full of the frank earnestness which had established the desired relation between herself and Senator North. "I am glad you are going to have a rest," she said; "that is, if you are."
Hastings sat on the back seat between Betty and Ruth; the small wagon with the good things for the birthday luncheon followed close behind, driven by a friend of Jason's. The other girls laughed and talked merrily as the big horses trotted briskly through the streets leading to the river. But Ruth was silent, except when Mrs.
When I reported the adventure, the servants exclaimed, 'Oh, it must have been the master's old Aunt Betty, who lived for many years in the upper part of that house, and had died over fifty years before at a great age. I afterwards heard that the room in which I felt the hand had been considered haunted, and very curious noises and peculiar incidents occurred, such as the bed-clothes torn off, &c.
So she tumbled the books and extra pillows on the floor and went to sleep." "Too bad you spoiled your record just for those few minutes," laughed Betty, "but I'll take you to the concert all the same," and she hurried off to dress. At dinner she entertained her end of the table with an account of Georgia's essay at cramming.
Betty Perch began to pity us a little, for her spring had begun to trickle again in a small way, and she sent word to me that if we were really in need of water she would be willing to divide with us. Phineas Colwell was sorry for us, of course, but he could not help feeling and saying that if I had consulted him the misfortune would have been prevented.
Aunt Betty says everybody always finds use for all the knowledge he possesses. Aunt Betty knows. She's lived almost as long as all our ages put together, and she's the very happiest person I ever saw.
"For goodness' sake, stop undressing me, Betty Nelson!" she said. "I'm not dead yet." "So we see," said Betty, while her eyes lost their anxious expression and began to twinkle instead. "But you might have been, you know, if we had left you to yourself." Mollie looked down at her dripping clothes ruefully and then out at the rushing water. "I guess you are right," she said with a little grimace.
They are in this life for money. Betty Blackwell to them was a marketable article, a piece of merchandise in the terrible traffic which they carry on. If she had been yielding, like the rest of us, she might now be apparently free, yet held by a bondage as powerful and unescapable as if it were of iron, a life from which she could not escape. But she was not yielding. They would break her.
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