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"Tommy," said Lovey Mary, picking him up, "the sick lady feels so bad! Go in and give her a love, darling. Pet her cheeks and hug her like you do me. Tell her she's a pretty mama. Tell her you love her." Tommy trotted obediently into the low room and climbed on the bed. He put his plump cheek against the thin one, and whispered words of baby- love.
Thirteen years ought to reconcile a person even to gingham dresses with white china buttons down the back, and round straw hats bought at wholesale. But Lovey Mary's rebellion of spirit was something that time only served to increase. It had started with Kate Rider, who used to pinch her, and laugh at her, and tell the other girls to "get on to her curves."
The Vice-Warden stole on tip-toe to the window, and closed it noiselessly, before he ventured to go on. "Yes, Lovey, a Bear: but not without a head, I hope! You're the Bear, and me the Keeper. And if any one knows us, they'll have sharp eyes, that's all!"
And when you waggled your whip at them they grinned and waved their hands, and one of them shouted something meant to be jolly." "It just means, lovey," he answered, "that they made up their minds it was a beano after all, and that they'd got wind up about nothing. The mongrel sportsman and the bashful wench in a sun-bonnet were after all, they thought, a genuine substitute for Ned Blossom."
"It's not your poor old gran's doing it, my lovey," said old Ma Parker, patting back the damp hair from his little scarlet ears. But Lennie moved his head and edged away. Dreadfully offended with her he looked and solemn. He bent his head and looked at her sideways as though he couldn't have believed it of his gran. But at the last... Ma Parker threw the counterpane over the bed.
'Lovey, my dear, whispered Dennis, drawing his chair close to hers. 'When was your young man here last, eh? 'MY young man, good gentleman! answered Miggs in a tone of exquisite distress. 'Ah! Simmuns, you know him? said Dennis. 'Mine indeed! cried Miggs, with a burst of bitterness and as she said it, she glanced towards Dolly. 'MINE, good gentleman!
There are a great many cards we ought to leave; is there any place where I should leave a card for you, lovey any person of consequence you were introduced to at Mrs. Haughton's last night? That great man they were all talking about, to whom you seemed to take such a fancy, Samuel, duck " "Do get out! that man insulted me, I tell you." "Insulted you! No; you never told me."
Last summer I asked two children from the Toronto home to spend two weeks with me at our summer place, but this year I have set my heart on taking Lovey Mary and Tommy. They will see Niagara Falls and Buffalo, where we stop over a day, besides the little outing at the lake. Will you come, Mary? You know Robert might get choked again!" Lovey Mary leaned against the door for support.
Neither of them said anything for what seemed a long time. They just looked into the glowing bed of coals and saw different things! Then, "I think," Mary Alice began, in a voice that was full of tears, "I think I wish we hadn't played any game. I think I wish I hadn't seen him at all." "Lovey dear!" "Yes, I do!" wept Mary Alice, refusing to be comforted. "Everything was beautiful, before he came.
Hold on to your hat, Tommy, and get your pocket-handkerchief ready to wave." The bell began to ring, and the train slowed up at the great water- tank. "There they are! All of 'em. Hello, Miss Hazy! And there's Asia and Chris and ever'body!" Mrs. Wiggs pushed through the little group and held an empty bottle toward Lovey Mary. "I want you to fill it fer me," she cried breathlessly.
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