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Her suddenly wakened mental faculties were running down like those of a watch which has been shaken to make it go for a few seconds. The situation was too much for her, and, according to her wont, she let it drop. Just then a whiff of strong sweetness came from the house, and her blank face lighted up. "We are makin' 'lasses candy," said she.
"Well, he certainly isn't mine," retorted Helen, with more gaiety. "I can't say I approve of him and I long since told you why." "I believe you are unfair, Helen," said Ruth seriously. "Dear me! if you don't care anything about him, why are you so anxious to have me change my opinion of 'Lasses?" "For your own sake," said her friend shortly. "I wonder! For my sake?" "Yes.
Halifax is a charming, hospitable place: its name is associated with so many pleasing recollections, that it never fails to extort another glass from the bottle which, having been gagged, was going to pass the night in the cellaret. But only say Halifax! and it is like "Open sesame!" out flies the cork, and down goes a bumper to the "health of all good lasses!"
Aren't you glad?" cried Jill, as the lads stared and the lasses blushed and smiled, well pleased at the frank admiration the boyish faces showed. "I guess I am! You are a set of trumps, and we'll give you a first-class spread after the play to pay for it. Won't we, fellows?" answered Jack, much gratified, and feeling that now he could act his own part capitally. "We will.
"'Ah, the good pastor! whispered the student to himself; 'what a happiness would it be to be gathered into his fold with such a pet-lamb for a companion! "But no such good fare was likely to befall him. In vain he essayed those powers of pleasing which he had found so irresistible with country curates and country lasses.
A procession of lasses coming up the broad walk, advancing out of the shadows of night, was heard afar off as the stalwart singers strode on, chanting in high nasal voices that lovely hymn, which seems to suit the rink as well as the night promenade and the campmeeting: "We shall me um um we shall me-eet, me-eet um um we shall meet, In the sweet by-am-by, by-am-by-um um-by-am-by.
As a relief to the monotonous surface of this simple screen, various ballads and learned legends were pinned to the blanket. There might you read in verses, pathetic and unadorned, how "Sally loved a sailor lad As fought with famous Shovel!" There might you learn, if of two facts so instructive you were before unconscious, that "Ben the toper loved his bottle, Charley only loved the lasses!"
Ten o'clock is the time appointed for the young women to assemble. It was a few minutes past ten when we got to the place; and there were some twenty of the girls waiting about the door. They were barred out, on account of being behind time. The lasses seemed very anxious to get in; but they were kept there a few minutes till the kind old superintendent, Mr Fisher, made his appearance.
Lammeter that's Miss Osgood as was died afore the lasses was growed up; but for prosperity and everything respectable, there's no family more looked on." Every one of Mr.
"Looks mighty fishy," muttered Tom Cameron. "I could punch 'Lasses' head, the way I feel." These thoughts seemed to take Tom's appetite away. To his sister's surprise, he returned in a very few minutes to the front porch of the bungalow. "I told you that you had boa-constrictor habits," she gasped. "Why, Tom Cameron! you must have swallowed your supper whole."
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