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I never saw any exhibition at all, except once the Gigantic Cabbage! May I go, Aunt Barbara?" "Really you are very kind, after " "Oh, we never think of AFTERS on birthdays! Do we, Addie?" "If you are so very good, perhaps Mrs. Lacy will kindly bring her to meet you." "I am sure," said he, turning courteously to that lady, "that we should be very sorry to give Mrs. Lacy so much trouble.
The current report of the Cincinnati public schools gives a full account of the celebrations of authors' birthdays in the last two years, and the superintendent, the Hon.
I shan't want Jones to-day," said her aunt mournfully, who, although she had almost given up birthdays, thought her niece need not quite desert her on the disagreeable occasion. "I'm not in tne humour for riding, aunt. Nothing will do me good but a walk. I shall put some luncheon in my bag."
Then one day in bed the thought of you came. It seemed an absolute inspiration. I remembered the card you sent on my last birthday you've never forgotten my birthdays, though it's years since we met with your new address here and your 'Doctor, and all the letters after your name! I thought it rather funny."
Although the Japanese invariably say, when asked about it, that they celebrate their children's birthdays, the uniform experience of the foreigner is that birthday celebrations play a very insignificant part in the joys and the social life of the home.
He remembered her birthday well he had always observed it religiously, even that last birthday so soon before she left him, when he was almost certain she was faithless. Four birthdays in his house. He had looked forward to them, because his gifts had meant a semblance of gratitude, a certain attempt at warmth. Except, indeed, that last birthday which had tempted him to be too religious!
"Really? You knew her as a child?" "She was just fifteen when I saw her first," said Leonard, his voice husky with the emotion called up by the reminiscence. "It was her birthday, I remember, and one of her cousins asked me to go home to tea with him. They were great people for birthdays, her relations." "Were they?" Eva adjusted her veil carefully. "Friendly, sociable sort of people, I suppose.
Griselda's heart smote her; she looked at him more carefully. He was such a very little boy, after all; she did not like to be cross to him. "How old are you?" she asked. "Five and a bit. I had a birthday after the summer, and if I'm good, nurse says perhaps I'll have one after next summer too. Do you ever have birthdays?" he went on, peering up at Griselda.
Wiley's lips set grimly as he gazed at the certificates for which men had striven and died. There were some from her father, transferred on her birthdays when the stock was around thirty and forty; and others from old prospectors like Henry Masters, who had left it to Virginia when they died.
"When my mother died she had to stay at home and work and keep my little sister. Now again my father has got married, and Lucinda wants to come to school and bring my little sister. Dolly was five birthdays last Thanksgiving dinner." "Susie was five birthdays while I was at home vacation.
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