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He was forehanded with his winter woodpile, immaculately neat with his dooryard, determined in his Sunday observance, and if he put the small apples in the middle of the barrel he refused to raise tobacco, lest it become a cause of stumbling to his neighbour. He paid his debts, disciplined his children, and in an age which has come to look chummily upon God, he dreaded His wrath.
For an hour Aunt Clara sat alone, trying to work out the hardest problem of life, how to raise a love from the dead. And all she achieved was a bitter self-reproach. For the first time in all her existence. A ripple of childish laughter came to her through an opened window. She rose and looked out. She saw the Davids, little and big, sitting chummily on the lawn.
Deep down in Fillmore, Sally decided, there must lurk an unsuspected vein of intelligence. "Hello?" said Miss Winch, amiably. Mr. Bunbury seemed profoundly moved. "Miss Winch, did I or did I not ask you to refrain from chewing gum during rehearsal?" "That's right, so you did," admitted Miss Winch, chummily. "Then why are you doing it?"
Remember that he is very good-looking and just bad enough in spite of his new pillar-hood, to be spell-binding, and it was lots of fun. Kirke grabbed my hand and squeezed it chummily, and I smiled at him. "'You are a glorious girl, he said. "I suppose I should have reminded him and myself that he was a semi-satanic, but I did not.
It is the way you went, and I will walk with you! That will be good." He sat for a moment with uplifted face towards the vast sky, his fine strong features touched with a tender light, their sadness changing into peace. Then with the old cheery brightness coming into his face again he returned to the earth and its duties. "Billy, it's time we were getting on," he remarked to his horse chummily.
In silence we watched him run across the lawn, twirling the plate deftly above his head in juggler fashion. The next day when we sat down to dinner our new young neighbor again appeared on our threshold. "Halloa!" he called chummily. "We are going to have soup again and we want a soup plate for father."
"I know you and I are going to get along together splendidly, Stephen," said Betty, rubbing her brown cheek chummily against my shoulder. "You are so good at understanding. Very few people are. Even dad darling didn't understand. He let me do just as I wanted to, just because I wanted to, not because he really understood that I couldn't be tame and play with dolls. I hate dolls!
YOU know, teacher," he added, squeezing her hand chummily. "Isn't it splendid to be that kind, teacher?" "Splendid," Anne agreed, gray shining eyes looking down into blue shining ones. Anne and Paul both knew "How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view," and both knew the way to that happy land.
He introduced them, and Will entered into the spirit of the affair and greeted them chummily.
But Casey Ryan was busy talking chummily with Jim Cassidy, and he scarcely knew that a car had passed. The money he had been given for Smiling Lou had been used to pay for this new load of whisky, and Casey found himself wishing that he could get word of it to Mack Nolan. Still, Nolan's oversight in the matter of arranging for communication between them did not bother Casey much.
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