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Perhaps it will be a less selfish direction, too." "It certainly is a bully fine fad, Grandfather," Laurie exclaimed. "Somehow I believe it is, laddie," the old gentleman answered thoughtfully. "Your father thinks so. Time only can tell whether I have chucked my fortune in a hole or really invested it wisely.
"It's a good thing it wasn't us he hit," said Russ, as they found themselves safe on the other side. "That's right," agreed Laddie. "He's terrible mad 'cause we didn't save him any sugar. I was going to, but it all spilled." They stood on the safe side of the fence looking at the ram, which shook its head, stamped its feet, and, now and then, uttered a loud "Baaa-a-a-a-a!"
It was an hour of very great anguish for me; an hour of an anguish different, but only less keen, than that which I had known when they had told me first that I should never see my laddie in the flesh again. But as I took up the melancholy journey across that field, with its brown mounds and its white crosses stretching so far away, they seemed to bring me a sort of tragic consolation.
Eh, poor laddie, but there'll be light in his eyes when he sees the white glint of her coming till him where he's no expecting her or the like of her." Indeed, Una was not so brave as she seemed. Her heart beat quicker as she struck out into the gloom of the cave. The water was colder, or seemed colder, than it had been outside.
Let's give our dolls a ride!" cried Vi. "You can give yours a ride, but I'm not," declared Rose. "Why?" Russ wanted to know. "'Cause she might fall off into the water." "I can put a stone on her so she won't fall off the boat," said Russ. "Huh! Think I'm going to let you put a stone on my doll? I will not!" Rose exclaimed. "I could tie her on," suggested Laddie. "I've a piece of string."
When out of sight and hearing, the Piper stopped his whistling. "'T is no need to be cheerful, Laddie," he explained to the dog, "when there's none to be saddened if you're not. We don't know about the loose link, and perhaps we can never find it, but we're going to try.
Laddie, do you think you could manage a fried sole and a sweetbread?" "Enlist?" said Doggie, following him out to the front door in a dream. He opened the door. Phineas shook hands. "Fried sole and a sweetbread at one-thirty?" "Of course, with pleasure," said Doggie. Phineas fumbled in his pockets. "It's a long cry at this time of night from Bloomsbury to the Elephant and Castle.
"I'll think up some new riddles!" declared Laddie. "What are you going to do, Mun Bun?" asked his grandmother, for the little chap had said nothing as yet, just listening to the others. "I I'm not going to fall out of bed!" he answered, and then he wondered why all the others laughed. "Well, trot up to the attic," said Grandma Ford, "and have all the fun you want.
When he rode under the tree, I dropped from a limb into his arms, and went with him to the barn. He asked me what was going on at the house, and I told him about Mrs. Freshett being a rebuke to us; and Laddie said she was, and he didn't believe one word against her. When I told him mother was in bed crying like anything, he said: "I knew that had to come when she kept up so bravely at the station.
"I guess so," and Mr. Bobbsey had to turn his head away so Freddie would not see his smile. Laddie, Flossie and Freddie soon became fast friends, and when the smaller Bobbsey twins were not being taken about New York, to see what to them were very wonderful sights, they were either playing in the rooms of Mrs. Whipple or in their own at the hotel.
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