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Jealousy, Susan pronounced it, and suggested that the puppy should be called Pansy. "I fancied callin' Michael Pansy," she said. "But Mr. Kenny, he fair talked me out of it. His eyes do favour the brown pansies that growed in my old granny's garden in the Cotswolds."
This air a long way from th' mountings." "Honey, you don't mean you walked!" "Had to. Wings ain't growed, yet. Say; I've come to bring a word to Mr. Frank. Is he to home?" She motioned toward the stable, which was the finest building she had ever seen. "Yes; but he don't lib dar, honey." "Don't he? Who does, then?" "Queen Bess." "Queen Bess!" The girl was thunderstruck; her worry choked her.
R.L. Dugdale, when a member of the prison Association, and let the reader judge for himself: "It was traced out by painstaking research that from one woman called Margaret, who, like Topsy, merely 'growed' without pedigree as a pauper in a village of the upper Hudson, about eighty-five years ago, there descended 673 children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, of whom 200 were criminals of the dangerous class, 280 adult paupers, and 50 prostitutes, while 300 children of her lineage died prematurely.
"'Look a' here, said he to the former; 'you don't mean to say, sir, that you'd back out of marryin' a couple right here and now, that was growed up and of full age, and nothin' to hinder. "'Marry! cried Miss Denby. 'A wedding right here on this beautiful island! Oh, that would be glorious! Who wants to be married? "'I do, said Sam.
Answer me that question, but don't reply as an Irishman does by repeating it, "Is it where I will find one, your Honour?" Minister used to talk of some old chap, that killed a dragon and planted his teeth, and armed men sprung up. As soon as we whipped the British we sowed their teeth, and full-grown coons growed right out of the earth.
"Presently she returned, all set to rights, and a little righter, too, for she had put a touch of rouge on to make the blush stick better, and her hair was slicked up snugger than before, and looked as if it had growed like anything.
I admire and respect our methods far more than yours, which just 'growed' like Topsy!" "But cynicism and truth are, unfortunately, synonymous. Only you are too young, and ought not to know anything about either!" "I like to know and do things I ought not to!" Her eyes were merry. "Tell me some more about your countrywomen.
What does a body go to the bother of raisin' childern FUR? Just to lose 'em as soon as they are growed enough to help earn a little? I ain't LEAVIN' Tillie get married! She's stayin' at home to help her pop and mom except in winter when they ain't so much work, and mebbe then I'm hirin' her out to Aunty Em at the hotel where she can earn a little, too, to help along.
"Certainly, certainly, Mr. Bloomer. I'm not in the least offended." "Um-hm. Didn't cal'late you would be. Can't help our names, can we? If my folks had asked me aforehand I'd a-been named plain John. As 'tis, my name's like my legs, growed that way and it's too late to change." Galusha smiled. "You're a philosopher, I see, Mr. Bloomer," he said.
Round about a year after his wife died, the thought came to him and gradually growed till it mastered him and led to a wonderful stroke. And it showed, if that wanted showing, that you never know what gifts be hid in anybody, or what the simplest man will rise to in the way of craft, given the soil to ripe his wits and the prompting to lift him up.
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