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"What is it all?" demanded Perez of the Indian girl, as he laid his hand soothingly on Prudence's shoulder. "Jake Konkapot, he come see me tonight," said Lu, still smiling. "Jake no like Abe, cause Abe like me too. Jake he ask me if I like Abe any more after he git whip on back by constable man. I say no. Indian gal, no like marry man what been whip.
Well, I'll tell you how I'll keep my accounts; I'll have a stick, like Robinson Crusoe, and every time I make a toadskin I'll gouge a piece out of one side of the stick, and every time I spend one I'll gouge a piece out of the other." "Spend a what?" said the gentle and astonished voice of my sister Lu, who, unperceived, had slipped into the room.
Lulu having taken off her hood and coat, now sat before the fire warming her feet. Grace was watching the skaters from an easy chair by the window. "It does look like good fun," she said. "Is it very cold out there, Lu?" "Not so very; the wind doesn't blow; but when you've been standing still a while your feet feel right cold.
Well, Lulie, I should like to tell you a story. May I?" It seemed a queer place and an odd time to tell stories, but she said of course he might. "It wasn't a very long story," he went on, "but it is a true one. I happened to think of it just now while we were talking, you and I and ah Miss Martha. It is about me. On one of my expeditions in Egypt, Miss Lu Oh, good gracious!
Lü did not get discouraged when they did not believe at once. "I do not wonder you do not believe," she would say, "I was just the same once, and worse than you. No power on earth could have made me leave my old way; but the wonder-working power of God did it, and that same power will still bring you into His fold."
"How good in you, papa! for I'm not half so bright or pretty as Lu," she said, patting his cheek with her small white hand. "Why, Gracie!" exclaimed Lulu, "whatever put such a thing as that into your head? You are far prettier, and better too, than I am. Isn't she, papa?"
Uh! thunder! it makes me furious just to think of it." Hugh was amused at seeing Thad act in this way, because it was so unlike his usual cool demeanor. Undoubtedly he was, as he had said, indignant from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. "We'll both of us keep an eye on Brother Lu," remarked Hugh, "and try to learn his little game.
"Wait! Wait! Come back!" cried Mrs. Brown. "Don't you run off and get lost again, Bunny! I'll go with you, and we'll both find little sister." Bunny Brown and his mother walked out of the front yard to the street. As they passed the side dining room window, Aunt Lu saw them, and asked: "Where are you going?" "To look for Sue," explained Mrs. Brown.
"Never mind, Max; I appreciate your offered services, and shall not be afraid to trust myself to your care," Evelyn said in a lively tone; and putting an arm affectionately round Lulu's waist, "Come, Lu, let us go out on the lawn; I saw some lovely flowers there that I want to gather for Aunt Elsie's adornment this evening."
2 These were two smaller hills in Lu. 3 These were two hills of Lu, in the present district of Zau. Hsue was the name of one of Yue's nine provinces, embracing portions of the present Shan-tung, Kiang-su, and An-hui. Mo was properly the name of certain wild tribes in the north, as Man was that of the tribes of the south. maintain Lu.
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