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Maria Metz smiled at the little girl's idea of a party, and after a moment's hesitation replied, "Ach, yes well, Phœbe, I don't care." "In the garret, oh, dare I go in the garret and play?" she asked excitedly. "Yes, I guess. If you put everything away nice when you are done playin'." "I will." She started off gleefully. "And be careful of the steps.
Roy was at the wheel in Mollie's car she had invited him to act as chauffeur and he had gleefully accepted with Mollie herself beside him and Will and Amy in the tonneau. The others Mrs. Irving, their young and jolly chaperon, and the four girls and boys were to make the journey in Frank's big car, with Frank, of course, at the wheel. "Hello, Betty!" Will shouted.
"She is the prettiest of us, is Fanny." "So much obliged for the compliment!" gleefully cried Hatty. "Cary, don't you feel delighted?" "Is Ephraim here now?" I said, for of course I never thought of anybody else. "Ephraim!" Hatty whirled round, laughing heartily. "Ephraim, my dear, will have to break his heart at leisure. Ambrose Catterall has stolen a march on him."
The very people who had most gleefully cheered on those gladiators became serious at the consequence. There could be no reasonable doubt the fret of the defeat had contributed to the death of Pawkins. There was a limit even to scientific controversy, said serious people. Another crushing attack was already in the press and appeared on the day before the funeral.
In this manner some ten minutes went by and Hugh was thinking that the explosion must have been much further away than any of them had suspected at the time, when Bud was heard giving tongue. Bud, when excited, always broke loose and allowed himself free rein. "Come this way, boys!" he was shouting gleefully. "I've run the old meteor to earth. My stars! what a terrible hole she did make!
So I must go myself." Away she skipped, before cautious Limpy-toes could say no. Pretty soon she slipped through the tiniest hole, laughing gleefully. She held a long white thread in her mouth. "Hurry and bring the empty spool," she cried. "I fooled old Tom that time. He was asleep on the couch and never heard me. I couldn't pull the spool through the hole, so I've brought one end of the thread.
The boys were true savages, possessing only the cruel humor of the savage. To them the incident was excruciatingly funny, and they burst into loud laughter. Hoo-Hoo danced up and down, while Edwin rolled gleefully on the ground. The boy with the goats came running to join in the fun.
"We wanted to surprise you," said Betty gleefully, noting with pride how splendid he looked in his uniform. "You don't seem at all glad to see us. Mrs. Watson," remembering her manners in the nick of time, "this is a friend of ours from Deepdale Allen Washburn. He didn't know we were coming." "So I see," smiled Mrs. Watson, shaking hands warmly with Allen. "I'm very glad to know you, Mr.
When a fellow comes up for trial, previous convictions are never allowed to be mentioned till after the sentence. Whiddicomb Fair should not be held against me in the present crisis." The manager chuckled gleefully. The cashier, when he saw how the land lay, had quietly withdrawn, closing the door behind him.
"He's to have all the decorations as well a free hand. It's perfect " June broke into laughter, her little figure quivered gleefully; she raised her hand, and struck a blow at a muslin curtain. "Do you, know I even asked Uncle James...." But, with a sudden dislike to mentioning that incident, she stopped; and presently, finding her friend so unresponsive, went away.
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