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The thought of Bob learning manners beneath the tuition of those sinewy brown hands that were about hers was very pleasant to her. But it was a pleasure that must be denied this she saw clearly as the result of weary tossings throughout the night; and now she set about the task of explaining it to George. She said: "Oh, my dear, you're not right. Georgie, I can't go if Mrs.
Frequently mothers called out: "Be careful, Georgie!" The orchestrion bellowed and thundered on its platform, filling the ears with its long monotonous song. Over in a corner, a man in a white apron and behind a counter roared above the tumult: "Popcorn! Popcorn!" A young man stood upon a small, raised platform, erected in a manner of a pulpit, and just without the line of the circling figures.
"Don't you ever read the newspapers, Miss Lestrange?" he said. "I have been advertised as being on view every night at the New Theatre." "Oh, I don't mean that. Lady Adela says you have quite forsaken her." "Is Lady Adela to be here this afternoon?" he asked, in an off-hand way. "Oh, certainly," replied Miss Georgie. "She is going everywhere just now, in order to put everything into her new novel.
By supper time a fairly able storm had developed and promised to develop still more. Captain Obed, his arms filled with packages, all carefully wrapped and all mysterious and not to be opened till the next day, came in just after supper. "Where's that second mate of mine?" whispered the captain, anxiously. When told that Georgie was in the kitchen with Imogene he sighed in relief.
"What a girl you are for wanting excitement, Sue. I want to get back and see that Georgie hasn't shut everyone out of the parlor!" worried Mary Lou. They went through the basement door to the dining room, where one or two old ladies were playing solitaire, on the red table-cloth, under the gas-light. Susan drew up a chair, and plunged into a new library book.
I begin to fear she would be very exacting in marriage. But was the lady young, Georgie?" The good man blushed furiously. "Yes, under thirty, I should suppose, and very striking to look at. Serena had called my attention to her already. She thought her over- dressed. I am no judge of that, but I could see she was very beautiful." "Oh! Georgie dear!" This in high protest.
Her nature was shallow enough to be passing fickle; the passion which she had taken for love was little more than a girl's fancy; but the man who had power to awaken that fancy as John Hammond had done had not yet appeared in Lady Kirkbank's circle. 'What a cold-hearted creature you must be, said Georgie. 'You don't seem to admire any of my favourite men.
Miss Georgie still had that freight heavy on her conscience, but she stood and watched him stoop under an overhanging branch and turn his head to smile reassuringly back at her; then, with a pungent stirring of sage odors, the bushes closed in behind him, and it was as if he had never been there at all.
It was from the bank of the stream, a little way from the road, at the place where the path from Georgie's house came down to the water. The brook was broad, and the water pretty smooth and still here; and it was a place where Rollo had often been to sail boats with Georgie.
Aug. 28. we are all getting ready for the rally. Keene and Cele and Georgie have got some new plad dresses. father has got a pair of gray britches and a black coat. mother said the rally was a good thing becaus it was the first time she had seen father dressed up since he was married.
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