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Later on, when she had put Edwarda to bed for at least the tenth time, she came to comfort Johnnie. "Never mind," she said, "he'll be back. And while he's gone, you can play he's here." Then with a far-away look in her blue eyes, "What would I do if I didn't pretend HE was here!" Johnnie groaned. The idea of her bringing up the Prince in the face of such grief as his! It made him sick.
Now there was still time for him t' spring back and save himself save her, he could not. But he would not leave her lyin' there and save himself, and so and so " "Oh, has he got t' die?" pleaded Johnnie, brokenly. "Johnnie," went on the Father, gently, "we're not on this earth just t' have a good time, or an easy time, no, or a safe time.
One would have said that to the daughter of such the close cotton-mill room with its inhuman clamour, its fetid air, its long hours of enforced, monotonous, mechanical toil, would be prison with the torture added. But Johnnie looked forward to her present enterprise as a soldier going into a new country to conquer it. She was buoyantly certain, and determinedly delighted with everything.
Johnnie had wanted to say something about the ring, and the engagement something to the effect that he was happy over the news, only Mr. Instead, the Handbook took up the whole of the hour. A mysterious signal on the sink pipe brought all of the books down to them, descending in the basket as if out of the sky. Mrs. Kukor had to be thanked then, from the window, after which Mr.
Johnnie Morgan spent but little time in the society of the volatile Dorothy. His heart was full of love, but his head was overloaded with affairs of state, and the pain in his arm filled the air with "phantoms" in black that blotted out the sweeter picture of a teasing "fairy" in white. The admiral, never so happy as when on the water, went back to Gatcombe on the tide.
And they all seemed to be trying to out-stare him. For a minute or two Turkey Proudfoot glared at this newcomer this new pet of Johnnie Green's. Then, after first spreading his own tail to its fullest size, he swaggered up to the peacock. "You needn't pretend not to see me," Turkey Proudfoot gobbled. "You can't fool me. You've a hundred eyes on your tail. And they've been looking at me steadily."
"Now, you don't mean it!" cried Mr. Perkins, blushing again. "Well, bless your heart, old fellow! Waiting for me! I wish I could've come sooner. But I've been, pretty busy up to my ears!" "Oh, that's all right," Johnnie assured him. "'Cause I filled in the wait good 'nough.
He had dined at the Drews' the evening before and had had an awakening. As he thought of the matter he could recall no special occurrence that he could really use as evidence. Colonel and Mrs. Drew had been as kind as ever and Barbara could not have been more charming. But something had gone wrong and he had endured a wretched evening. "That little English Johnnie was to blame," he argued.
In this frame of mind the boy was appointed to the CONQUEROR, Captain Davie, humorously known as Gentle Johnnie. The captain had earned this name by his style of discipline, which would have figured well in the pages of Marryat: 'Put the prisoner's head in a bag and give him another dozen! survives as a specimen of his commands; and the men were often punished twice or thrice in a week.
Perkins rose, looking more red than brown, and gave her a soldierly bow, though that day he was not wearing a uniform, but a gray business suit. "I'm so glad to meet you," he said. "Johnnie's told me so much about you." "I I've got to go right back," was what she said. "Two of the girls 're waiting for me downstairs." "Aw, Cis!" pleaded Johnnie. "Wait! Ain't y' goin' t' exercise with us?"
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