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"I daresay I could get a dozen at Gillow's next the rabbit shop," replied the young librarian, thoughtfully. The Prophet shuddered to the depths of his being, but he was now embarked upon his enterprise and must crowd all sail. "Go to Gillow's," he exclaimed, with an assumption of feverish geniality, "and bring back a couple of rabbits I mean bottles. They must be dry. You understand?"
"I am better-looking than she ever was," said Violet, without vanity. She was a Californian, and very Southern in temperament, I believe. I often rather wish I could have seen her, though she would probably have hated me for not being the child of the man she loved. She died almost before I was born however. I daresay it's as well. I'm sure we shouldn't have got on." "Violet!
'Is it from Mr. John, sir? He had to recover himself, and to get rid of his tears, and to answer the old woman in an unconcerned tone, all in a moment, and it disconcerted him. 'Yes, yes; he said. 'I'll tell you all about it another time. 'Is he well, sir? 'I daresay he is. He doesn't say. It's about business.
Lady Harriet, who was rather different to Miss Piper, and no more minded crossing the room alone than if the lookers-on were so many cabbages, spied the Gibson party pretty quickly out, and came across to them. 'Here we are at last. How d'ye do, dear? Aren't we shamefully late? 'Oh! it's only just past twelve, said Mrs. Gibson; 'and I daresay you dined very late.
I daresay it would have been something very dreadful, but I was not in the least frightened as I held on; but as he clung to the big quaint coping of the wall he suddenly gave two or three such tremendous kicks that one of them, aided by his getting his free foot on my shoulder, was given with such force that I was driven backwards, and after staggering a few steps, caught my heel and came down in a sitting position upon the path.
Oh, yes, and then it will be all ready to put up again, when we all come back, if we ever do come back again to this place. Let me see, I shall be almost a man then. Fancy me a man. I wonder what kind of a man I shall be. Like papa, I daresay; and yet they say I am like mother. I should think a man like mother would be very queer."
It's the best trait the youngster could have, out here on the border. He'll need it all. Don't worry about him. Where is Betty?" "I told her to take the children out for a sled ride. Betty needs exercise. She stays indoors too much, and of late she looks pale." "What! Betty not looking well! She was never ill in her life. I have noticed no change in her." "No, I daresay you have not.
After pondering some time over these enigmatical words, I said: "I daresay we are at cross purposes again. I mean," I added hurriedly, seeing the inquiring look on his face, "that we do not exactly understand each other, for the subject of honey was not in my thoughts." "What, then, do you mean by a city?" he asked. "What do I mean?
"I shall have to go farther," says Roger, desperately, "There is no knowing where I shall end. She can't find it out, and neither can I, and I see no hope of our arriving at anything except a lunatic asylum." "I can look it up by myself," says Miss Blount, grandly, "I don't want your help much. I daresay I can manage by myself, after all.
"O Alan," says I, "and me a good twelve inches taller?" "Ye're no such a thing," cried Alan, with a start. "There may be a trifling matter of an inch or two; I'm no' saying I'm just exactly what ye would call a tall man, whatever; and I daresay," he added, his voice tailing off in a laughable manner, "now when I come to think of it, I daresay ye'll be just about right.
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