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By the way, Harry, you would have to find a new boarding-place, for Mrs. Anderson would accompany me, and we should shut up the house." "Perhaps Ferguson would take me in?" said Harry. "I should be glad to do so; but I don't know that my humble fare would be good enough for an editor." Harry smiled. "I won't put on airs," he said, "till my commission is made out."
The jefe told us that to-morrow we should go to our boarding-place, but that to-day we were to dine together in state. Time passed, hour after hour lagged by, until the mozo and arriero struck for money, with which to buy themselves something to eat. Meantime, we waited.
"He was a good friend to you, a stranger," continued Keimer, "and I would have you appreciate his friendship; but, in the circumstances, I think another boarding-place is best." "And now I can make a more respectable appearance," responded Benjamin; "for my chest of clothes has come."
You can heave them away, if you want to and you won't be liable to hit many lawyers neither." At supper time as they stood by the gate of the High Cliff House the captain, who was to eat at his regular boarding-place, the Parkers', that evening, ventured to ask the question he had been so anxious to ask. "Well, John?" he began. "Well, Captain?" "Have you have you made up your mind yet?"
Simmons declared to herself that "he couldn't be fur from the kingdom when his heart was so little set on Mammon as that." "He's too good for Satan the Lord must hev him," thought the good old lady. Once again the Queen Ann needed repairing, and again the captain found himself at his old boarding-place. Good Mrs.
The old hauteur had not left her face, but it was in the background, veiled, as it were, by a determination to be different, to meet life in a more friendly spirit, and to make the most of it and of herself. Betty could have hugged her for her cordial greetings to Katherine and Rachel, and for the kindly little speech about Rachel's boarding-place.
But in such things as rehanging the pictures, deciding on a summer boarding-place, taking a seaside cottage, repapering rooms, choosing seats at the theatre, seeing what the children ate when she was not at table, shutting the cat out at night, keeping run of calls and invitations, and seeing if the furnace was dampered, he had failed her so often that she felt she could not leave him the slightest discretion in regard to a flat.
We turned from this scene, and took a stroll to another residence, where we found the former slaves of the owner the sole occupants. They had a hearty laugh when I asked if the "smoke-house key was frowed in de well?" "Yes, yes, missus," they answered; "we's got de managin'." We walked up to our old boarding-place, and took supper with our dear friends.
He had a Sunday-school class, which would miss him very much. All these things Austin considered that night after he had gone to bed, and found that even his joy for going would be mixed with regret at leaving his church home. After talking the whole matter over frankly with Uncle John, Austin had returned to his boarding-place in the home of Harry Coles and told Harry and his wife his new plans.
That young man has succeeded in ruining himself in this community and that is all he has succeeded in." John said nothing. At his new boarding-place, Darius Holt's, he answered no questions concerning his plans, and was silent and non-communicative. He kept to himself and made no effort to regain his lost popularity or to excuse his action.
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