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Maggie went on counting her money till she suddenly heard a deep gentle voice saying, "Aren't you very tried? Do let me bring you something, some fruit or jelly, mayn't I?" The unexpected tones shook her like a sudden accidental vibration of a harp close by her. "Oh no, thank you," she said faintly, and only half looking up for an instant.
Isn't it pretty here?" "Oh, yes'm. It's mighty pretty. But, you see, if I don't get down to the office early, the other kids'll get my place. If I lose it once I mayn't never get it again." "The office? Your place? What do you mean?" "Down to th' Express. There's some steam holes in the sidewalk, you know, and they're as warm as summer.
"Squirrel, my lady," said Mrs. Fry mysteriously. "Aye, 'twas a squirrel; but who knows but what it mayn't be a dragin when it gets 'oom?" "A squirrel turn into a dragon?" said Lady Eleanor. "I never heard such childish stuff in my life; and I wouldn't have believed that a sensible woman like you could have thought of such a thing." "Well, I won't say as it was a dragin, my Lady," said Mrs.
If there were a little more light, I would show you what he looked like. For some reason he wasn't pleased. Do you really want to go downstairs though? It is much nicer here." She had risen. They were facing one another in the twilight. "Yes," she said, and though still quiet her voice was not altogether even. "I want to go, please." "Mayn't I tell you something first?" he said.
But now since I have scared you sufficiently, let me add for your peace of mind that I've not enough money to back any horses just at present, and before I put any money up on any one of them for the Matrimonial stakes, I will ask you first to look over the card and give me a few pointers. I mayn't follow them, you know, but I'll give you a fair warning, at any rate.
Only " "Yes?" "Only this I pray, just this and nothing more that I mayn't have to stay awake, alone, after after you're sleeping, Allan!" A long time they sat together, silent, in the sweet-scented gloom within the flower-girt arbor. At last he spoke. "The wonder and the glory of it all!" he whispered. "Oh, the wonder of a dream, a vision come to pass, before our eyes! "For, see!
"Everything's possible. Who knows what mayn't happen before night-fall?" she continued, mocking the poor lady's timidity, who depended implicitly upon one thing following another that the mere glimpse of a world where dinner could be disregarded, or the table moved one inch from its accustomed place, filled her with fears for her own stability.
"But I get beyond that: it mayn't be sound theology, but it's common sense, that what is good is useful too or there and thereabout, for I don't set up to be a thinker. Now, where would a story go to if there were no virtuous characters?" "If you go to that," replied Silver, "where would a story begin, if there wasn't no villains?" "Well, that's pretty much my thought," said Captain Smollett.
"I just will," declared Cathie, obstinately scampering up over the stairs. "Oh, Mr. King, mayn't Polly stay home? Oh, do say yes, please!" "Yes, do say yes, please," called all the other girls in the hall below. "Hoity-toity!" exclaimed the old gentleman, well pleased at the onslaught. "Now then, what's the matter, pray tell?"
'I have a few words to suggest that may save a great deal of noise, and bloodshed, and ill-will. 'As to noise, said Harriot, 'it is a thing in which I delight, therefore I beg that mayn't be spared on my account; as to bloodshed, I beg that may not be spared on Lady Delacour's account, for her honour, I am sure, is dearer to her than her blood; and, as to ill-will, I should be concerned to have that saved on Mrs.
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