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Pratt was impressed suddenly with the thought that they were both leaning on the advice and leadership of the girl! He was inexperienced, himself; and the teamster seemed quite as helpless. A pair of coyotes, too frightened by the fire to be afraid of their natural enemy, man, shot by in the dusk two dim, grey shapes. Frances released Molly and the grey pony from their hobbles.
The acquaintance with Frances Osgood begun at Miss Lynch's salon soon ripened into close friendship. She found her way up the two flights of stairs and Edgar and Virginia and the Mother received her with as ready courtesy and welcome as though the two rooms that looked on the sky had been a palace.
Lessons, with Frances especially, seemed more difficult than usual, and after a good many yawns and not a few groans, she decided that it was no use to attempt anything calling for a 'clear head' that evening. 'I'll just copy out my dictation and exercises, she said, 'and do all the fresh learning to-morrow morning.
They were all dressed in deep and decent mourning, except the women of Lady Frances, who walked behind her to the great entrance, where she and Constantia stood ready to receive his Highness.
"Salvation Army," she explained merrily. Frances exchanged a glance with me. I laughed too, for the information took me by surprise. I cannot say why exactly, but I expected at least to hear that the woman had met some dreadful end, not impossibly by burning. "And The Towers, now called the Rest House," Mabel chattered on, "seems to me the most peaceful and delightful spot in England "
"Both you and Ratty will be punished in the end," said Frances, calmly. "Men like you always are." "Lots you know about it, Sissy. And don't you be too sassy, understand? I could squeeze yer breath out!" He stretched forth a clawlike hand as he spoke, and pinched the thumb and finger wickedly together.
I didn't dream there'd really be a marriage when I asked You please to let it be if you could manage it; but there's going to be two, and I'm going to both. I've got a new dress to wear, and slippers with buckles, and amber beads, and lots of other things. And most of all I thank You for Mr. Van and Miss Frances finding each other. And please don't let them ever lose each other again.
Judith will never forget the thrill of terror that ran through her as the curtain rose and she saw the rows of faces staring at her out of the semi-darkness. For an instant she was paralyzed with terror, and it was only the audience's delight at finding Frances arrayed as Scrooge's irrepressible nephew that covered the gap between "Merry Christmas, Uncle," and "Bah! Humbug!"
All the residue of her property she gave to her said daughter Frances." Cummings also assails Hawkins's story that Purcell was dissipated and caught his death from being locked out.
This last was addressed to Frances, now standing a little in front of the others, partly with an instinct of coming between the terrified little boy and those keen, searching eyes. 'My brother is very tired and very thirsty, she said. 'It was he that was speaking, and I daresay he said our names. Mine is Frances, but my sister's is Jacinth. Perhaps you heard that name: it is very uncommon.
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