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"There's a cap too, and mittens," said Louise eagerly. "Do try it on." Donald stood holding the coat; and Faith, as excited and happy as Louise, slipped on the coat, put the cap on her head and held out her hands for the mittens. "Oh, Louise! They are lovely. I may keep them, mayn't I, Aunt Prissy?" she asked, turning about for her aunt to see how nicely the coat fitted.
He had wings on his boots, or was supposed to: which it would be a convenience in these days, with Palmerston's unfortunate habits. For goodness' sake, child," she addressed Fancy, "take him out somewhere, that I mayn't perjure myself twice in one day!" She vanished. "Now, what have you to say for yourself?" Fancy turned again upon Palmerston and repeated her question.
"Will she weather it, Grinder, think you?" he asked of an elderly man, whose rugged features resembled mahogany, the result of having bid defiance to wind and weather for nigh half a century. "She may, Mr Brooke, an' she mayn't," answered the matter-of-fact man of the sea, in the gruff monotone with which he would have summoned all hands to close reef in a hurricane.
Suppose he is attached to this girl don't look sad again, it's merely a supposition and begad a young fellow may have an attachment, mayn't he? Directly he gets well he will be at her again." "He must come home! We must go off directly to Fairoaks," the widow cried out. "My good creature, he'll bore himself to death at Fairoaks. He'll have nothing to do but to think about his passion there.
"Mayn't I stay," said Fleda, sobbing, while he could see in the tension of the muscles a violent effort at self-control which he did not like to see, "mayn't I stay till till the day after to-morrow?" "No, dear Fleda," said he, still stroking her head kindly, "I will bring you back, but you must go with me now, Your aunt wishes it and we all think it is best. I will bring you back."
"Nothing in particular," said she. "Mayn't I want it just generally?" "Oh, well, I thought you meant there was something special. I've sold the cow well, Miss Janie." "Bother the cow! Why haven't you been to Fairholme?" "Well, in fact, I'm not sure that Mr Iver is death on seeing me there too often. But I shall turn up all right soon." "Have you been going about anywhere?" "No.
But Quita saw in his eyes the one thing she wanted; and may surely be forgiven if she paid small heed to his plight. Her face fell at the details of the damage done. "Mayn't I just have a sight of him as he passes us?" she pleaded. "Better not," he answered kindly, "You have an artist's brain, remember; and I want you to sleep a little to-night. Trust me to do every mortal thing I can for him.
And do you care about her? Gerald was silent for another moment, and she guessed that he had run his hand through his hair and rumpled it on end. 'She really is a little dear, isn't she? he then said. 'You mayn't find her interesting though I really do; and she may be like eau rougie; but, as you said, it's a pleasant draught to have beside one.
One of Dick Boyce's first acts as owner of Mellor, when social rehabilitation had still looked probable to him, had been to send a contribution to the funds of the League aforesaid, so that Aldous had public and conspicuous grounds for his remark. "Need one measure everything by politics?" she asked him a little disdainfully. "Mayn't one even feed a Radical?"
Now for the first time I can appreciate lots of those things in Whitman, that "I think heroic deeds were all conceived in the open air, and free poems, also. Now I see the secret of making the best persons: It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." I mayn't have quoted correctly, but you know the sort of thing I mean, that sounds so breezy and stimulating.
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