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"Would you like it?" "I would a great deal rather study at home, Sir, if you will let me." "What do you know now?" "Oh, I can't tell, Sir," said Ellen; "I don't know anything very well, unless " "Unless what?" said her uncle, laughing; "come! now for your accomplishments." "I had rather not say what I was going to, uncle; please don't ask me." "Yes, yes," said he; "I shan't let you off.
"He is dead. Mr. Kirton is dead!" cried the housemaid, wringing her hands. "No, his heart beats," said Hester. "Run for Doctor Poster, Hannah, and ask Richard Wallis to come at once and help me lift the poor old gentleman." Hannah flew to do this errand. A moment after, Mr. Kirton opened his eyes. "Where is Ellen?" he said. Then he shut them again.
A little behind came Nan and Bert. With them walked Ellen Moore and Ned Barton, who lived near the Bobbsey house. There were merry times in the school yard before it was time for the last bell to ring. The boys and girls played tag, and ran about. Some boys had tops and spun them, or played marbles.
He wants their whole hearts, that he may bless them. Are you one of his children, Ellen?" "No, Sir," said Ellen, with swimming eyes, but cast down to the ground. "How do you know that you are not?" "Because I do not love the Saviour." "Do you not love him, Ellen?" "I am afraid not, Sir." "Why are you afraid not? What makes you think so?"
Octavia found her shopping-bag, and drew from it a long envelope filled with typewritten documents. "A ranch in Texas," sighed Aunt Ellen. "It sounds to me more like a liability than an asset. Those are the places where the centipedes are found, and cowboys, and fandangos."
When Ellen came to herself she was on the bed in her mother's room, and her aunt Eva was putting some of her beautiful cologne on her head, and her mother was trying to make her drink water, and her grandmother had a glass of her currant wine, and they were calling to her with voices of far-off love, as if from another world. And after that she was questioned no more about her mysterious journey.
Ellen said to Joanna one morning in the kitchen: "It's my belief the Captain's not going to get well, and I'd like to go to Newburyport to see my cousin and not be in the house when the children's told!" And Joanna said, "Shame on you not to stand by 'em in their hour of trouble!" At which Ellen quailed and confessed herself a coward.
With an ignorance that is monumental, Frances Ellen Burr glories in the fact that "the Revising Committee refer to a woman's translation of the Bible as their ultimate authority for the Greek, Latin, and Hebrew text," and they add that "Julia Smith, this distinguished scholar," is the only person, man or woman, who ever made a translation of the Bible without help.
Finding himself quite wealthy now, Charles could well afford to be generous; and presented me with a new doll, and his sister Ellen with a miniature set of cups and saucers, over which we had many happy tea-drinkings.
I was afeard you'd hardly be able to stand by this time; but there you come like a young deer!" "Oh, Mr. Van Brunt," said Ellen, coming close up to him, and speaking in an undertone "you don't know what a present I have had! What do you think, Mr. Marshman has sent me from Ventnor?" "Couldn't guess," said Mr.
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