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I've never been to anything but a village school, but I could make up paragraphs like that myself." "That's the up-town kind," said Tembarom. "The down-town ones wear their mothers' point-lace wedding-veils some-times, but they're not much different. Say, I believe I could do it if I had luck." "So do I," returned Little Ann. Tembarom looked down at the carpet, thinking the thing over.
His castle is situated at the very end of the world, to the west. There is nothing to hinder you from taking possession of your carpet and ring, they are hidden in the king's treasure-house. Then go with your cap and club and conquer Kostey, rescue the princess, and deliver the king and his subjects."
And the grunt and the thumping touched the depth of affection in the man's heart, and gave him some inkling of what agonies the dumb creature had suffered. Next, from the shadows by the window, a somewhat shrill purring announced the restoration of the cat to its normal state. Smoke was advancing across the carpet.
Two members were absent, the father and the oldest boy. The room was small, and meagerly furnished, though every thing was clean and in order. In the centre of the floor, extending, perhaps, over half thereof, was a piece of faded carpet. On this a square, unpainted pine table stood, covered with a clean cloth and a few dishes.
Two hours later Polly stood with her father's arm round her neck: a slanting ray of sunlight was falling across the old faded carpet in the study, and mother's eyes smiled out of their picture at Polly from the wall. "You have been punished enough," said the Doctor. "I have sent for you now just to say a word or two.
Jerrie, who knew from experience that the better way was to humor his fancy, said she did smell something; perhaps it was the carpet, or the curtains, both of which were new. 'Very likely, and in that case the smell is a clean one, he replied, and began again to speak of commencement. 'Harold is sure to be here, he said, 'and he is better than forty old coves like me.
She would neither see nor hear any thing of this outside world! The palace is her world, in which she is happy, in which she revels! Ah, that charming, silent little boudoir, with is soft Turkish carpet, with its elastic divans and heavily curtained windows and doors that little boudoir is now her paradise, the temple of her happiness! In it she lingers, and in it is she blessed.
Before the door of the hotel in which Oliver was staying, she stood so long, with her vacant gaze fixed on the green velvet carpet within the hall, that an attendant in livery came up at last and inquired if she wished to see any one. Arousing herself with a start, she shook her head hurriedly and turned back into the street, for when the crucial moment came her decision failed her.
These trees were large tupelos, and the vines, clinging from trunk to trunk and to one another, formed an impenetrable screen with their dark green leaves. Over the leaves grew flowers, so thickly as almost to hide them the whole surface shining as if a bright carpet had been spread from tree to tree and hung down between them. The flowers were of different colours.
She says that all heads of houses are relics of the dark ages." The Doctor muttered something and stamped his foot upon the carpet. Then without a word he passed out into the garden and his daughters could see him striding furiously up and down, cutting off the heads of the flowers with a switch. "Oh, you darling! You played your part so splendidly!" cried Ida. "But how cruel it is!
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