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"Tears all gone, Ross, tragedy played out, and the little woman who keeps house for you is herself again, and has been as busy as a nailer. Are nailers busier than other men, I wonder? All your boxes came. Such bliss as it was to us poor women to feast our eyes upon all that heritage of linen and silver, and china and glass!
Time had softened ill-feeling, and Archie's career was touched with the virtue of the tenderly remembered dead. "He was but a thoughtless creature before he lost wee Sophy," Janet said, as she discussed the matter; "and now, where will you find a better or a busier man?
And here she gave him a last scratch. "But you'll be busier than ever," she said; "no spare time to grieve about me!" She could wound him, and she knew it. Nobody else could. That is why she did it. But he gave her something to remember, too. "Next time," he said, "neither of us will stay behind. We'll both go together." And with these words he gave her no laughing glance.
For three days he was satisfied to cuddle close against his mother, feeding when he was hungry, sleeping a great deal and preened and laundered almost constantly by Gray Wolf's affectionate tongue. From the fourth day he grew busier and more inquisitive with every hour.
A busier life or a more pleasantly respectable can hardly be found in the history of men, nor yet a more truly musical. A life of similar brilliance and similar musical immersion was that of Liszt, whose domestic career was nevertheless as different as possible.
Yet, would it not be wiser to secure a refuge and shelter for twelve months than run the risk of hearing of some other situation? I walked slowly along the street toward the busier thoroughfares, with my head bent down and my mind busy, when suddenly a heavy hand was laid upon my arm, grasping it with crushing force, and a harsh, thick voice shouted triumphantly in my ear: "The devil!
She was a pretty, lively girl, and it was pleasant to see in our sober household one who had time to be idle and could laugh. Your Aunt Eleanor was always a busy woman, busier then than she is now, and had no time for mirth. Every servant in the house liked Miss Elizabeth for her sunny smile and her pleasant ways. Shortly afterwards, Thornton Lee came home.
Distant redwings gave their celebrated imitation of a great multitude. Bluebirds warbled on the wing. The busier chickadees and creepers searched the twigs and trunks, interpolating occasional remarks. The sun slanted through the forest. Bob strode on vigorously.
Presently they came within sight of the town, and the sound of the clock on the town hall striking one came faintly to their ears. "Whew," said Bob, "it's late." "I should say so," Hugh agreed, "and I was just thinking of everything we have done to-day. We've certainly been busy." "We may be even busier to-morrow." "Why so?"
Miss Mary," she said, "it may put him all out of humor when I tell him that." But Mary was not as afraid of him as other people were and she was not a self-sacrificing person. "I can't stay," she answered. "Dickon's waiting for me;" and she ran away. The afternoon was even lovelier and busier than the morning had been.
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