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"Anyhow," Carrissima insisted, "I believe that Bridget simply fell in love with Jimmy, and that was why she altered her course." "Rotten sentimentality!" exclaimed Lawrence. "The curse of the age. Oh, there's no doubt she was clever. She played her cards so well that she succeeded in deceiving the principal looker-on as well as her victim."
'Whose is that little clown's suit? he asked, while Nan was busy about the van. 'Ah, she answered, 'that was my little brother's, and she spoke so unhappily that he did not like to say any more about it. But Jimmy wanted more and more to try the suit on himself only just for a few moments, and he thought it could not possibly do any harm.
Her interest was heightened if not wholly actuated by some things Jimmy Wallace had been telling her lately about how such things were done on the real stage. He had written a musical comedy once, lived through the production of it, and had spent a hard-earned two-weeks vacation trouping with it on the road, so he could speak with authority.
He's the horse that killed Jimmy Carpenter last spring, and Jimmy " "Go ahead, Ward," ordered Judith. "You don't have to stop every time the wind blows, do you?" Even Bud Lee smiled. But old Carson spoke up, saying: "Bud's right, miss. And if Ward wants to know, he's a low-down dawg to try to turn a trick like this. . . ." "Go ahead, Ward," Judith repeated.
I didn't know that you knew him." Lord Wisbeach seemed to hesitate for a moment. "He's not coming over, is he? Pity! It would have done him a world of good. Yes, Jimmy Crocker and I have always been great pals. He's a bit of a nut, of course, . . . I beg your pardon! . . . I mean . . ." He broke off confusedly, and turned to Willie again to cover himself.
If he fails to tell me damn him I dare him " She jumped up and seized him in her arms. "Promise me that if I tell you all all, Jimmy, when you are fifteen promise me will you be patient now with poor mother, who loves you so?" And she kissed him fondly again and again. He looked into her eyes and saw all her suffering there. The bitterness went out of his.
"That's funny!" said Jimmy Conway. "That was one of my papers slipped in by mistake," remarked Dr. Gates, with dignity, and flashing a wild appeal for help to Harmony. "How did one of your papers get in when it was sealed?" "I think," observed Harmony, leaning forward, "that little boys must not ask too many questions, especially when Christmas is only six weeks off." "I know!
"Now as to this lightning arrester," resumed Bob, leaving Jimmy to regain his equanimity. "We've got to put it up, for the regulations require it and we ought to have done it before." Jimmy pricked up his ears but said nothing. "I don't think there's really much need of it," objected Joe. "It's too nice an afternoon to work. We've got a lightning rod on the cottage anyway."
Crayon had ordered a pleasant and powerful Western concoction which he and Mr. Plummer sipped as they talked. The "King's" face was red, partly with the sun and partly with the anger that still burned him. Mr. Crayon's words fell soothingly upon his ear Mr. Crayon had a quiet, mellow voice and his sense of injury at the hands of Jimmy Grayson deepened.
Very devoutly she wished that Mark Driver had not visited the Old Masters' Exhibition. She had not walked far on her way home when she saw Jimmy Clynesworth coming towards her, and thought it rather early in the year for him to be wearing a straw hat in London. Of course he stopped to speak.
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