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"Where's the private room to give 'em in?" piped out one of the parcel-girls with a wink at the other. "In here!" cried Becky, with a sudden inspiration, jumping up and running into a little fitting-room that had that morning been assigned to her to sweep and put in order after the lunch hour. "Good for you!" cried Lizzie, with one of her laughs, as she followed her teacher.
"It's not necessary, at any rate, that you should do so now. Time and circumstances have made me so harmless that's exactly why I've dared to venture back. And I wanted to tell you how I rejoice inyour good fortune. It's the only obstacle between us that I can't bring myself to wish away." Lizzie sat silent, spellbound, as she listened, by the sudden evocation of Mr. Jackson Benn.
The little girls examined these pictures and commented on them; and on Saturdays it was a matter of the keenest speculation what the following week would bring them. Lizzie preferred exciting scenes of murder and arson, while Annie was moved more by leavetakings and declarations of unalterable affection.
Hook!" and up the steps she went as she had been in the habit of doing. "Now if she'll only go into the tank that will be part of the game solved," mused Joe. He had not put in the goldfish, for he knew, no matter how well trained Lizzie was, she would surely eat the fish if they were left in the tank. The problem of using them in his new act was one Joe had not yet solved.
He could not stay and face the comrades; before the speaking had finished, he gave Lizzie a nudge, and the two got up and stole out, dodging everyone they knew. Outside they stood in perplexity.
"Let's set down a while," Mrs. Butterfield suggested. "I'd just as leaves," Lizzie said, and took off her blue sunbonnet and fanned herself. She was a pretty woman still, though she was nearly fifty; her hair was russet red, and blew about her forehead in little curls; her eyes, brown like a brook in shady places, and kind. It was a mild face, but not weak.
'Very well, Miss Lizzie, I suppose mother has some right here. And with that, I was going away to fetch her, knowing that she always took my side, and never would allow the house to be turned upside down in that manner. But Annie caught hold of me by the arm, and little Ruth stood in the doorway; and Lizzie said, 'Don't be a fool, John.
Woodbourne; 'she has seemed very well and strong all the summer, but she still has that constant cough, and we must always be anxious about her, I wish she would take a little more care of herself, but she will not understand how necessary precautions are; she goes out in all sorts of weather, and never allows that anything will give her cold; indeed, I let Dora go out with them this evening, because I knew that Lizzie would stay out of doors too long, unless she had her to make her come in for her sake.
Six months, she says, for a parent." "Your common dresses will be worn out by then, miss," said Lizzie. "I wouldn't put any on your winter frocks, if I was you, for black materials are always heavy, and crape don't show on those thick stuffs. I'd just have a piping for the best, and " "What's that," said Chatty, who was the most curious, "that has such a strong scent and gilt-edged paper?
There was a movement on the other side of the table where Becky lay; and then Lizzie saw, struggling up from a chair, a tiny crippled body, wasted and shrunken, the body of a child of seven with a shapely head and the face of an intelligent boy of fifteen.
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