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I had the ill luck to come upon it by way of that Western Coney Island, Santa Monica, and from the merry-go-rounds and cheap eating places Balboa and Magellan and Franky Drake fled away incontinent and would not be conjured back; though, indeed, the original discoverers would have had yet further occasion to gaze at one another "with a wild surmise" if they had seen shrieking companies "shooting the chutes."
After a time she answered, "Yes, I like, or I did like George Moreland, but I shall never see him again;" and then she told Jenny of her home in England, of the long, dreary voyage to America, and of her father's death; but when she came to the sad night when her mother and Franky died, she could not go on, and laying her face in Jenny's lap, she cried for a long time.
A barber, sent for, that afternoon, had cut off the greasy, disguising locks of sand-coloured hair, and trimmed the wildly luxuriant beard which had given the man such a slovenly, unfamiliar appearance. His upper lip was once more shaved. "I don't mind kissing you now, papa," Franky said, who had shirked saluting the stubbly face.
He has hinted to our children that he would rather they wouldn't come about his yard to play with his children, which I can bear, and bear easy enough, for they're not a sort we want to associate with much but what I can't bear with any quietness at all, is his telling Franky our bill was running pretty high this morning when I sent him for some meal and that was all he said, too didn't give him the meal turned off and went to talking with the Hargrave girls about some stuff they wanted to cheapen."
Who ever asked your leave, miss?" the brother said. "And I say, ma " "Well, Franky, dear?" "You'll tip me all the same, you know, when I go back " and here he broke out into a laugh. "I say, ma, shall I tell you something?"
And now they were fairly off! Franky bit his lips in attempted endurance of the pain the motion caused him; he winced and shrank, until they were fairly on a Macadamized thoroughfare, when he closed his eyes, and seemed desirous of a few minutes' rest.
It was a very poisonous fungus of a house, with blotches of paint here and there, with its front portico supported drunkenly on swaying pillars, with its roof hollowed about the chimney, with great stains here and there upon the walls, which seemed like stains of sin rather than of old rains. Maria marched straight to the house, leading Jessy, with Mamie and Franky at her heels.
"Yes, but, Emily, oughtn't mama to think of me as well as of Franky? And I've no patience with her. I think she ought to make up her mind, and have done with it. Quite young girls, with all their lives before them, make marriages for money, why should she make such a fuss?" "The young ones don't know what they're a-doing, perhaps; and your ma does," the sage Emily hazarded.
Only seven when all that happened to papa." "Franky must not go into one of George Boult's shops," Sir Francis said. "When Franky is old enough to leave school to begin to earn his living come and tell me, will you?" Her face lit, till it was lovely as a sun-kissed flower. "Oh, I will!
"I hate Bessie," Franky said; but he was used to having his face slapped by his elder sister, and went on munching his bread-and-butter and water-cress, not much the worse. "We can't go to the concert, Bessie," Deleah was presently saying. "We've got no evening frocks." "Oh, but we have!" Bessie quickly reminded her. "The frocks which were new for our party and never worn again."
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