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Reddin' how stylish you look in that red dress. I'll curl yer hair on the poker if you want me to." Any diversion from the routine of work was acceptable, so late that afternoon the two girls, arrayed in their best garments, started forth to call on the Reddings. "I wisht I had some gloves," said Lovey Mary, rubbing her blue fingers.
"But get up from that floor instantly," ordered the girl on the divan. "Nothing worse for colds than rag carpet rugs. There's plenty of room up here out of drafts. Come, lovey. Do try to curl up some. I always fear you will break up in splinters when I see you go wooden." "Too comfy, Dinks, I can't move." "Sneeze then and I'll catch you. You have just got to get up off that chilly floor somehow.
Perhaps Miss Bell had discovered her hiding- place, or, worse still, perhaps Kate Rider had seen her at the factory and was writing for Tommy. Lovey Mary crushed the letter in her hand; she would not give it to Miss Hazy. She would outwit Kate again. "All right, honey," called Mrs. Wiggs; "here you are. 'T ain't much of a lunch, but it'll fill up the gaps.
"Your hard work your dear new treasures! I couldn't permit such a sacrifice, my darlings!" We just would not cry, though the lumps in our throats made our voices sound as if they belonged to some other family. "They aren't our new treasures, they're yours." "Who has been making sacrifices all our lives?" "We love you so you couldn't hurt us by refusing, Lovey!" "There is no question of refusing."
Before the gipsies could recover from their astonishment at this sudden change of front, a dishevelled grey head was poked out from one of the black tents, and a thin high voice piped, 'Dearie! lovey! Mother Jael be here! 'I thought I would bring you out of your burrow, said Baltic, grimly, as he strode towards her; 'in with you again, old Witch of Endor, and let me follow.
If I can't look at 'em wet Sundays, and shake 'em out, and have a good cry over 'em, I'll make 'em up into a kind of dumb show that will mean something to me, if it don't to anybody else. "We was the youngest of thirteen, Lovey and I, and we was twins. There 's never been more 'n half o' me left sence she died.
"Adelaide Rebekah is her name," said her mother, proudly. "Speak to the gentleman, lovey." "Shlav'm Shabbes fyock on," said Adelaide Rebekah. "Her Sabbath frock, she means," said the father, in explanation. "She'll have her Sabbath frock on this evening." "And will you let me see you in it, Adelaide?" said Deronda, with that gentle intonation which came very easily to him.
Slope, who had returned to the pole star that attracted him, laughed aloud; Mr. Arabin winced and shut his eyes; and the signora pretended not to hear her daughter. "Go to Aunt Charlotte, lovey," said the mamma, "and ask her if it is not time for you to go out." But little Miss Julia, though she had not exactly liked the nature of Mr.
Of course, I never let Lovey or Uncle Pomp get really hungry, but Douglass and I do that is " Roxanne stopped, for the pain would come out on my face. "Oh, Phyllis, not really hungry," she said mercifully, "but just tired of corn-bread and molasses. Douglass kisses me and I kiss him good-by in the morning and we pretend it is butter on his bread, like the poet said.
As she returned to her sweeping she sang joyfully, contentedly: "Can she sweep a kitchen floor, Billy boy, Billy boy? Can she sweep a kitchen floor, Charming Billy?" "Miss Bell says for you to come down to the office," announced a little girl, coming up the steps. "There's a lady there and a baby." Lovey Mary paused in her work, and a shadow passed over her face.
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