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But not Ruth. She was to know nothing. She was not here, by good luck, just the moment that it came." "And my dear old Mrs. Picture? Oh, Granny what a letter for her to get!" "Indeed, my lady, she was very badly shaken by it. I would have been glad if I might have read it myself first, to tell her of it gently." Granny Marrable was entirely mistaken. "Break it gently," sounds so well!
I'll give her directions as I pass her door. Slidder will go home with me and fetch you the medicines you require. Now, try to sleep till Mrs Jones comes with the food. You must not speak to me. It will make you worse." "I only want to ask, John, have you any any news about " "No, not yet, granny; but don't be cast down.
"Won't you?" replied the beldame; "ay, dher Creestha, will you, whin you know what. I have to tell you about him an' an' " "And who, granny?" "Diououl, man, but I'm afeard to tell you, for fraid you'd kill me." "Tut, Nelly; I'd not strike an Obeah-wo-man," said he, laughing. "I suspect foul play between him an' her." "Eh? Fury of hell, no!"
There was nothing to say against it, only grandmamma observed, "I am too old to catch things; Joe will let me stay and keep house for him." "Please, please let me stay with granny," insisted Janet; "then I shall finish my German classes." Janet was granny's child.
Where am I goin'?" she remembered his question. "Why, to the store and to Granny Hogendobler and the post-office " "Jimminy Crickets!" The boy stood still. "That's where I'm to go! Me and mom both forgot about it. Mom wants a money order and said I'm to get it the first time I go to town and here I am without the money. It's home up the hill again for me."
I can't ask you to tell me the things Granny WOULD have said, because that's simply arranging to keep myself back from you, and so being nasty and underhand, which you naturally don't want, nor I either. Nevertheless when I say the things she wouldn't, then I put before you too much too much for your liking it what I know and see and feel.
Will you call up town and have them sent out immediately?" On the pad he wrote: "Telephone Carey to get the highest grade curled-hair mattress, a new pad, and pillow, and bring them flying in the car. Call Granny and the girl and empty the room. Clean, air, and fumigate it thoroughly. Arrange the furniture differently, and help me into the living-room with Ruth." He handed the pad to the doctor.
It was not until Tony had gone the rounds of the household and greeted everyone from Granny down to Max that she read Alan's letter, as she sat curled up in the cretonned window seat, just as the little girl Tony had been wont to sit and devour love stories. This was a love story, too her own and with a sadly complicated plot at that.
He would stand up for the warm-hearted old woman who had ungrudgingly given him the best she had had given her all to make a hearty welcome for a stranger. They should never know how gladly he would have eaten now, and in loyalty to his recent hostess he added the first lie of his life: "No, thank you very much, but really I am not in the least hungry. I had a fine dinner at Granny de Neuville's."
No accounting for sheep anyway "the better you knew 'em the less you understood 'em." "Git to the high hills, Sister!" He tossed a pebble at a lagging ewe. "Want to feed all day in the same spot? Climb, there, Granny! Better look out or you'll git throwed in with the gummers and shipped afore you know it!"
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