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I'm as patriotic as any one, but to daub a perfectly good car up like that well, it's " "Sporty, I suppose Carwell thinks," finished Bartlett. He had risen as though to leave the summerhouse, but as he saw Captain Poland step up and offer his hand to Viola Carwell, he drew back and again sat down beside Minnie. A group gathered about the big French car, obviously to the delight of Mr.
The next day, Minnie was walking through the grounds with her uncle, while Tiney and Fidelle were following at her heels, when the express-man drove into the yard. He had a cage, as Minnie called it, in his wagon, and she ran eagerly to see what it contained. How great was her delight to see a goat, and two cunning little kids, cuddling down on the hay at the bottom of the wagon!
Those precious metals he stowed separately into the pockets of his huge pea-jacket, and, thus heavily laden, went ashore about dark, as soon as the skipper returned. At this precise hour it happened that Mrs Brand, Minnie Gray, and Captain Ogilvy were seated at their supper in the kitchen of the cottage. Two days previously the captain had called, and said to Mrs Brand
"Well, I want a pair of gloves, some worsted to match this fringe, and a lot of things. Come, won't you go?" "Oh, I don't know, I didn't intend going out this morning." "Well, never mind if you didn't, just say you will go. Where's your hat and mantle?" said Carrie, going to her wardrobe. "Well, just wait till I fix my hair; it won't take long." "Oh, Minnie, do let me fix it for you!
"Had I anything in my hand when I spoke to you, dear, just now?" Pause. "Nothing, dear, because I remember " "Blue ruin!" cried the Bacteriologist, and incontinently ran to the front door and down the steps of his house to the street. Minnie, hearing the door slam violently, ran in alarm to the window. Down the street a slender man was getting into a cab.
"I think you were very bold to say that, dear!" said Mrs. Van Winkle, when Harriet repeated this conversation, some hours later, in the family circle. "Oh, Aunt Minnie, I had to to see what he'd say." "And what did he say?" asked Harriet's mother, "He looked at me gravely, you know, until I was ashamed of myself," the girl confessed, "and then he said: 'Why, Hat, you must know that Mrs.
Had it not been that Lord Polperro was, in a sense, a public institution, and could not escape him, he would have felt uneasy about the doings of that remarkable fellow Greenacre; as it was, he preferred to muse on the advantages certain to befall Minnie and her mother, and perchance Polly Sparkes.
He has to stop at Rome; I know that. We will thus pass quietly away from him, without giving him any pain, and he'll soon forget all about it. As for the others, I'll stop this correspondence first, and then deal with them as they come." "You'll never do it, never!" cried Minnie; "I know you won't. You don't know them."
To-day, for some reason, she failed to appear, but previous to that she has not failed for five mornings in succession to batter down the same bit of our parapet." "Where's that?" asks the major, getting out a trench-map. "P 7 a most unhealthy spot. Minnie pushes it over about two every morning. The result is that we have to mount guard over the breach all day.
She went to one of the great department stores and bought herself one, using a dollar and a quarter of her small store to pay for it. "What did you do that for, Carrie?" asked Minnie when she saw it. "Oh, I need one," said Carrie. "You foolish girl." Carrie resented this, though she did not reply. She was not going to be a common shop-girl, she thought; they need not think it, either.
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