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The girls all looked at her and smiled so kindly when they met her eye; jam and scones were pressed upon her from half a dozen different quarters; Mademoiselle called her "cherie," and even Miss Phipps said "dear." "Are you having a good tea, dear?" "Won't you have another cup of tea, dear?"
"Yes, I know," said Rock, "that is why we came here. We are going to stay for some time. I like to play with girls. Will you let me come and play with you sometimes?" "Yes, indeed," said Dimple, in her warm-hearted way. "My foot is nearly well, and I can soon run about. I think I should like to play with a nice boy." "I hope I'm a nice boy," said Rock, "but I don't know.
Then the girls wanted Mary Louise to be general of the Dorfield Liberty Girls, but she would not consent. "We will just have the six companies and no general at all," she said. "Nor do we need a colonel, or any officers other than our captains. Each and every girl in our ranks is just as important and worthy of honor as every other girl, so the fewer officers the better."
London, where all was prudence and constraint, was no place to win the bride she sought for him. He should go forth into the country, where even heiresses were still girls, and win her, as troubadour of old, but with sketch-book in hand instead of harp. Not a promising scheme, one might say; but then, what schemes for a young man's future, who has no money, are promising nowadays?
You keep me talking here; it's time I was in my bath." Clad in pyjamas with a very wide blue stripe, grey-eyed, grey-moustached, slim and erect, he paused at the door. "The girls haven't a scrap of imagination. What do you think Bee said? 'I hope he hasn't lost his train. Lost his train!
She asks William Allen to place her "on top of that horse," whereupon he puts his large brown hands about her waist, and, swinging her to and fro, lifts her on horseback. William threatens to rivet two horseshoes round her neck, for having clambered, with the other girls and boys, upon a load of hay, whereby the said load lost its balance and slid off the cart.
"I liked her pretty well," said Candace. "She didn't talk to me but a little while." "I know she didn't. It was on her account specially that I sent for you to come down," continued Mrs. Gray. "Did she tell you that she was at school with your mother when they were quite little girls?" "No!" said Candace, surprised.
Here is a characteristic thing about the London supper club: the majority of the girls and to London's shame let it be noted the more attractive girls are all from the Continent. Without these feminine importations I doubt if the supper clubs could be maintained.
"I'm no end sorry," picking up the bits ruefully. "I have several like it," said the doctor kindly, and settling another powder in its little paper. "There were a lot of girls with Polly when I looked in upon her on my way out. But we'll catch a chance to tell her soon, my boy." "Oh! I suppose so. A lot of giggling creatures.
"Yes," he said pensively, with his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat; "I wouldn't wonder a bit now if you wass to pick up a sweet'arr amongst the gentry, because you are beginning to speak English as good as the Vicare, and you are not quite like the girls about here, Valmai." "Am I not?" she said laughingly. "No," he said seriously; "and that's where you will be failing.
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