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"He was a spy, and he would have been a traitor. But I am little better. What will you do to me?" The Rajah's wrath evaporated quickly, and a shrewd smile, not unkindly, wrinkled the ruddy old face. "So it was a case of the trappeh trapped, was it, my deah? I'm sorry right sorry. I might have known how it would be; a youngeh man would have known.
"Let's talk about the races." "Yas, by Jawve!" drawled Willis Paulding, who tried to be "deucedly English" in everything. "Let's talk about the races, deah boys. That's what interests me, don't yer know." Hartwick squirmed. He knew what was coming, and still his disposition was such that he could not resist a "jolly" in case the jolliers expressed opinions that did not agree with his own.
But the virus of commercialism was in us, too; it forbade us to make the best of a divine institution, and tempted us to make the worst. Now the curse is on the whole country; the dollar is the measure of every value, the stamp of every success. What does not sell is a failure; and what sells succeeds." "The hobby is oat, mah deah," said Miss Woodburn, in an audible aside to Alma.
Vilet, roused at her grandmother's voice, looked around, and then asked in her plaintive voice, "Whar's daddy?" "He's hep'n' put'n' out de fiahs, deah chile." "My bref gittin' bery sho't, granny. I can't stay dis side ob de riber much longer; I wants ter see daddy 'fore I go." "Po' chile and po' Kern," groaned Aun' Sheba.
I'll expect you back at bedtime, for I want to keep you under my wing one more night, but you're at liberty till then on one condition, you're not to look into a book." "I'll promise! Oh, I'll promise!" cried Lloyd, impetuously throwing her arms around the nurse. "You're such a deah! Not that I'm anxious to get away from you," she added, fearing that her delight might be misunderstood.
Wander down to the Battery with me and we will investigate further. "'You're an Englishman, I essayed knowingly. 'I am on to the lingo. "'Not on your life! said he. Born in Newark, New Jersey, deah boy, I assure you right back of the gas-house; what? These togs o' mine were handed out to me by an old pal a cockney valet and the accent goes with 'em, don't ye know?
"I don't know," answered Freddie. "But will you make me some paste, Dinah? And you know we haven't got Snoop, anyhow, so we couldn't send him up on a kite tail," added Freddie. "Deah me! Yo' chilluns done make me do de mostest wuk!" complained Dinah, but she laughed, which showed that she did not really mean it, and set at mixing some flour and water for the paste.
"Look youh fill, my deah child; thah it lies God's country, and youh's and mine; the fines', the most inspiring, the most beautiful land the sun eveh shone on!
At that Celia's mother, hurrying fearfully out the door, threw her arms around her. Celia fell to sobbing. "It's so fah away," she stammered brokenly, between her sobs. "I'm afraid ... to ... go.... It's so fah ... away!" "Theah! theah!" comforted her mother, lifting up her face and kissing it. "It's not so fah but you can come back again. The same road comes that goes, deah one. Theah! Theah!"
Sarah Brown shook her head in reply, and Richard could say nothing but "Oh deah, deah...." "May I take your name and 'ome address, and regimental number, please, young man," said the policeman, after a baffled pause. "Now my address," said Richard, with genuine shame, "is a thing I honestly can never remember. I know I've heard it; I've tried and tried to learn it at my mother's knee.
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