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And I guess it's a good twenty-five years since we've had a line from her." She laughed a little hysterically, dabbing her eyes with her handkerchief. "I don't s'pose I'm crying because she's dead, seeing I took it for granted that she'd passed away years ago. And yet all the time to leave me her money. Ain't life the funniest mix-up. Yesterday I couldn't have afforded so much as a sick-headache.
"And I meant to be so sweet, I meant to make you enjoy yourself until you thought me quite irresistible," Barbara laughed through her tears, kneeling upright on the sofa and dabbing at her eyes. "And then I was going to tell you that I have to come up to my dentist once a week for about two months; and I shall be all alone and I wanted you to promise to make me happy like to-night."
What a funny little fright you do look, to be sure!" said Arthur shrewdly, and chuckled in triumph as Peggy stopped short in the middle of a sob, and, with two tears in the very act of rolling down her nose, rushed to the nearest mirror and began dabbing at her face with a minute pocket- handkerchief. "Horrors! They do look red.
Wilkins, dabbing furtively at her eyes, "and us both being so " she blew her nose again a little "miserable." Of Course Mrs.
She pulled out a dirt-coloured pocket-'ankercher and stood there dabbing her eyes with it. One eye at a time she dabbed, while she looked at me reproachful with the other. And arter eight dabs, four to each eye, she began to sob as if her 'art would break. "Go away," I ses, very slow. "You can't stand making that noise outside my wharf. Go away and give somebody else a treat."
"He's got to take it back or I'll kill him." "Only the first round ended, looks like, Bandy," Dud said genially. "You better be lookin' this time when he comes at you, or he'll sure eat you alive." "I'm not lookin' for no fight," Bandy said sulkily, dabbing at his face with the bandanna round his neck.
Too too too too much." They came on with a peculiar rolling, helpless walk, rocked by the intolerable explosions of their mirth, dabbing their mouths and eyes with their pocket-handkerchiefs in a tortured struggle for control. They recovered sufficiently to pass Ralph and Barbara with serious, sidelong bows.
"Little angel, I am not thinking of marrying Stair Garland," she laughed; "rest easy in that dear peaceful soul of yours." "I am so glad," said Miss Aline, furtively dabbing at her eyes. "Louis, there, is like a boy of my own, and he has always been good and brave. One feels so safe with him "
A little, stoutish, smooth man, in shiny broadcloth and a profuse perspiration, entered directly after, carrying a brown leather handbag and his hat, which he took from his left finger and thumb and used to make a most deferential bow. There he stood, smiling and sleek, dabbing his face with a red silk handkerchief. "Very hot morning, sir, and your room's a bit 'igh."
"Had your 'usband got any marks on 'im? Birth-mark, or moles, or anything of that sort?" "I'm sure he is my 'usband," ses the woman, dabbing her eyes. "Yes, yes," ses the skipper, "but answer my question. If you can tell us any marks your 'usband had, we can take Bill down into my cabin and " "You'll do WOT?" I ses, in a loud voice. "You speak when you're spoke to," ses the carman.
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