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"There is er I well " She stopped helplessly, and a small girl slid to the floor from her perch on the sofa and looked longingly toward the hall. "Please, ma'am, there's a kitty out there; may I get it?" she asked timidly. "Please, have you got a dog, too?" piped up a boy's voice. "An' chickens an' little pigs? They said you had!" interposed a brown-eyed girl from the corner.
And then they had a little sleep in the hammocks in the shade, under the apple tree. "What shall we do now, Bunny!" asked Sue when she awoke from her little nap, and saw her brother looking over at her from his hammock. Sue always wanted to be doing something, and so did Bunny. "What can we do?" asked the little brown-eyed girl. "Let's go out to the barn again," said Bunny.
For a time he was able to laugh at himself, and he made pleasant pictures Charley Carpenter telling him a story at Drubel's; Morton companionably smoking on the top deck; Lee Theresa flattering him during an evening walk. Most of all he pictured the brown-eyed sweetheart he was going to meet somewhere, sometime.
"And Moll did carry them," he continued; "plump brown-eyed Moll, that hath married Hodge the tanner, and reared her tannerkins, and died long since." But the coal remained incredulous, and the flames crackled merrily. "Lord, Lord, what did I not write?" said Sir John, drawing out a paper from the packet, and deciphering by the firelight the faded writing.
She closed her eyes opening them almost immediately and passing one hand across his face as though afraid he might have vanished. "You are there yet," she murmured with a faint smile. "So are you," he whispered, laughing "my little dream girl my little brown-eyed, brown-haired, long-legged, swift-running, hard-hitting "
And Mary yet lived, with her babe in her arms, and one bright little boy by her side; and this boy is our little brown-eyed Fred the hero of our story. But few years had rolled over his curly head, when he first looked, weeping and wondering, on the face of death.
The brown-haired, brown-eyed little lad, with his sharp, intelligent face, was the wildest of them all, and enjoyed a certain consideration among them at the same time as his father's son an honour which he evidently thought it incumbent upon him to maintain by every kind of break-neck exploit.
This was particularly true of Joshua, whose low, turned-down collar revealed a porous, brick-red, and extremely virile neck, and whose clothes were creased at the knees and across the back. As for their wives, Mrs. Joshua was a merry, brown-eyed little lady already inclining to stoutness, and Honora felt at home with her at once. Mrs.
"And you are no better than a Tory, Betty Hastings," Gilbert continued, looking disapprovingly toward brown-eyed Betty. "You said a little while ago that you would rather be Lord Cornwallis than Washington." "Well, what if I did? I only meant in your play; because the English uniform is fine. All scarlet and gold," Betty explained.
It meant yes, it meant that Corbie was getting ready to leave his nest; and before the Brown-eyed Boy and the Blue-eyed Girl really knew what was happening, Corbie went for his first ramble. He stepped out of his nest-box, which had been placed on top of a flat, low shed, and strolled up the steep roof of the woodshed, which was within reach.
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