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"Very well," answered Papa Wibblewobble, "then I will let you do the buying. I think a green colored bonnet would be nice for Alice." "Green! With her complexion!" cried his wife. "Never! It must be blue blue for Alice and a brown one for Lulu. Give me the money and I will start out shopping to-morrow."
"But in the beginning," Lulu interposed anxiously, "they did try to take us with them. But it tired them so to carry us for or that's what in effect they do." "And there was one time just after we were married when it was all wonderful," said Peachy. "I did not even miss the flying, for it seemed to me that Ralph made up for the loss of my wings by his love and service.
"Yes, sir," said Max; "but if you and Mamma Vi should both happen to be out?" "Then you may go to Grandpa Dinsmore or Grandma Elsie." "Yes, sir," Max answered in a pleasant tone; adding, "I'm sorry to have displeased you, papa, and will be careful in future to obey the orders you've just given." But Lulu remained silent, and her countenance was sullen.
The one that says the clever things that nobody understands?" "Lulu Wesson! Why, Patrick! He's the most delightful boy. What can you suspect him of?" "I don't suspect him of anything. But you'll remimber what I was telling about the sort of boy you want to watch. That's what that boy is.
Impossible to refuse: and with a vexed word of apology to Laura he went out. "Dear me, what an opulent lady!" said Laura with lifted eyebrows. "Who's your friend, Lulu?" Lucian drily named her. "Queen's Gate, and Sundays at the Metropole. They're shipping people, which is where the diamond ta-ra-ras come from. Oh yes, there's a husband, quite a nice fellow, crocked in the Flying Corps.
"But, Dwight is it nice?" from his Ina. "That depends. I like it. So'll Lulu." He leered at her. "It's company." "Oh, Dwight," said Ina. "Who?" "From Oregon," he said, toying with his suspense. "Your brother!" cried Ina. "Is he coming?" "Yes. Ninian's coming, so he says." "Ninian!" cried Ina again. She was excited, round-eyed, her moist lips parted. Dwight's brother Ninian. How long was it?
"Papa calls me his little girl," remarked Lulu, half musingly; "and somehow I like to be little to him and big to you. Oh, Gracie, what do you suppose he will say when he hears about to-night? my being so bad; and so soon after he went away, too." "Oh, Lu, what made you?"
"But I don't think we'll have to resort to violent measures. We've only got to appeal to their love; I can twist Lulu right round my finger that way." "I guess you're right," Ralph smiled. "That always fetches them." "I don't anticipate any real trouble from this," Billy went on as though arguing with himself. "We've got to take it at the start, though.
"I did," acknowledged Lulu, her head hanging still lower and her cheek flushing more hotly. "You see when I lived with Aunt Beulah I got into the way of being very saucy to her, and I suppose that's how I came to speak so to papa. Oh don't you think I ought to be dreadfully ashamed, and that papa should have punished me very severely?"
The child hung her head in sullen silence, while Vi's face was full of distress; Elsie's but little less so. "Answer me!" commanded the captain in a tone that frightened even insolent Lulu. "I overheard you speaking in an extremely impertinent manner to some one. Who was it?" "Your new wife," muttered the angry child. The captain was silent for a moment, trying to gain control over himself.
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