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"Did you ever see such ducky people?" said King, as he lingered in the upper hall a minute with his sisters. "They're perfectly beautiful!" said Marjorie. "And I can hardly wait for to-morrow to come to see what Cousin Jack will do next." "Let's go to bed," said practical Kitty, "and that'll make to-morrow come quicker. Good-night, King."
If she could rise and see me with my bad finger, she would cry, and I should say, 'Never mind, ducky, I'm all right. Oh! dear, it's coming on to rain. I do hate a wet Saturday night poor women with their nice white stockings and their living to get," etc., etc. And yet age does not wither this godless old sinner, as people would say it ought to do.
"I would rather walk " began Ducky, with a touch of petulance in her voice, but Nealie stopped her quickly with a whisper: "You must ride, darling, or Rupert won't have the chair, and a long walk does take it out of him so badly you know." "If we have the chair, Don and I will be the horses, and we will go down Coombe Lane at a gallop," said Billykins, with a festive prance.
And in a journey like theirs such things tell seriously in the mileage. The weather had grown very hot again, and everyone, including the horse, was feeling the effects, while Rupert and Ducky, the most delicate of the party, were almost in a state of collapse.
Kean began the next scene, but it was of no use. He had to give in and send for us. Meanwhile old Ryder had been striding up and down the greenroom in a perfect fury. "Never mind, ducky!" he kept on saying to me; and it was really quite unnecessary, for "ducky" was just enjoying the noise and thinking it all capital fun. "Never mind!
"Yes, my ducky, it shall have some mutton," said his mother, and immediately gave him a slice, cut up into small morsels. That was not it. Limby pushed that on the floor, and cried out: "Limby on meat! Limby on meat!" His mother could not think what he meant.
"Father will be glad to have us, of course, and we will make him so very happy!" cried Nealie, and then Ducky leaned forward to kiss her on the nose, hugging her so tightly that it was quite wonderful she was not choked. "But how are we to get to Australia?" panted Rupert, who was finding the pace rather trying. "We must ask Mr. Runciman to let us have the money," said Nealie.
Think, Carl, I'm going to study dancing at Madame Vashkowska's school she was with the Russian ballet & really is almost as wonderful a dancer as Isadora Duncan or Pavlova. Perhaps I'll teach all these ducky new dances to children some day. I'm just terribly excited to be here, like the silliest gushiest little girl in the world.
"Now, good-bye, ducky!" said Valerie, who had only eaten a few mouthfuls of the veal, from which the maid had extracted all the gravy for a brave soldier just home from Algiers. "Great evils demand heroic remedies." "Valerie, where are you off to?" cried Marneffe, standing between his wife and the door. "I am going to see the landlord," she replied, arranging her ringlets under her smart bonnet.
Sutcliffe not to send you any more books from that library." "I'm seven and twenty, Mamma ducky." "The more shame for you then," her mother said. The clock on the Congregational Chapel struck six. They put down their books and looked at each other. "Dan not back?" Mamma knew perfectly well he wasn't back. "He went to Reyburn." "T't!" Mamma's chin nodded in queer, vexed resignation.
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