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Dubbadoe and her pretty daughter, when they drive in from Milton to see you, of the ice-cream you ate last night at the summer party which the Bellinghams gave the Pinckneys, of the hard-tack and boiled dog which dear John is now digesting in front of Petersburg, the real business, I say, is to supply the human frame with carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in organized forms.
"I do not remember its name, my dear; your mother brought it to me; I think she would know." But, unfortunately, Mrs. Liston, when applied to, had forgotten. "Was it a novel, Mrs. Dubbadoe?" "I can't remember that, my memory is not as good as it was, my dear, but it was a very interesting book." "Do you remember whether it had plates? Was it one of the books of birds, or of natural history?"
She has a good eye for color, and as she ran up stairs she took the shade of the baluster in her eye, matched it perfectly as she ran along the books in the library with the Russia half-binding of the coveted volume, and brought that in triumph to Mrs. Dubbadoe. It proved to be the right book. Mrs.
Some people, if they told the truth, when counting up the seven virtues, would count them as Purity, Temperance, Meekness, Frugality, Honesty, Courage, and Reading. The consequence is that there are unnumbered people who read as Mrs. Dubbadoe did or as Lysimachus did, without the slightest knowledge of what the books have contained.
Dubbadoe found in it the piece of corn-colored worsted she had left for a mark the year before, so she was able to go on where she had stopped then. Liston tells this story to trump one of mine about a schoolmate of ours, who was explaining to me about his theological studies. I asked him what he had been reading. "O, a capital book; King lent it to me; I will ask him to lend it to you."
Dubbadoe if she would not like to read. She said she should. "What shall I bring you from the library?" said Miss Ellen. "Do not trouble yourself to go up stairs." "My dear Ellen, I should like the same book I had last year when I was here, it was a very nice book, and I was very much interested in it." "Certainly," said Miss Ellen; "what was it? I will bring it at once."
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