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They didn't even know his name. Everybody called him 'The Professor. Mumsey says he and I lived in a little back room on the top floor of the house in Lowell where they used to live. They were poor then, but they wasn't near so poor as they are now. Jerry's father was alive them days, and had a job." "Yes, yes, go on," prompted Pollyanna.
"I could!" answered Ravenslee almost grimly, "and I surely will!" "When we get there, Prince, I want first a doll-carriage an' a doll with lovely blue eyes that wink at you, an' a big box of candy, an' a new dress for my mumsey, an' no more work, an' I want lots an' lots of flowers for my daddy 'cause he loves flowers oh, an' I want my leg t' be made well. What d' you want, Hermy?"
And the doctor laughed, but he soon looked pretty serious again, and said: "Dick, I think no one will tell your mother and she need never know, but I hope you will tell her all about it of your own accord." "Sure!" said Dick, "I couldn't keep that or anythink else away from Mumsey for five minutes after I saw her."
'It's all nonsense, he says; 'I'm not going to annoy my tenants, and make myself unpopular, just to gratify a fashionable cry. 'Well, says mumsey, 'it is not what was thought the thing for ladies in my time; but you see, if Gussie goes along with it, she will have the key to all the best county society. 'Bother the county society! says I. 'Bessie Duncombe's jolly enough but such a stuck-up set as they all are at Compton, I'll not run after, behaving so ill to the governor, too! However "
Later on, the four young people, much refreshed and exhilarated, assembled in the music-room to wait for dinner. Aunt Grace, whose sprained ankle was getting better, and who could now limp around with the aid of a crutch, was there too. "Geranium Blossom! but I'm hungry," exclaimed Bob. "Mumsey, do you s'pose we're going to have any dinner to-night?" "I think so, my boy," returned Mrs.
So they decided to do nothing at all, and, as far as the present dramatic and inconvenient historian knows, that is just what they are doing at the present time. Here ends the swaggering story of the mellow and gruff shipwrecked mariners." "Is that all?" "What fun!" "Didn't the adjectives come in funny!" "Write another one!" came the various comments. "Hurrah for Mumsey!" shouted Archie.
"Well, mumsey says my father was sick a lot, and he got queerer and queerer, so that they had me downstairs with them a good deal. I could walk then, a little, but my legs wasn't right. I played with Jerry, and the little girl that died.
Ashby, tenderly drawing the penitent into her arms. "And oh, mumsey, mumsey where shall I ever find any one who will be as patient with the whirlwind? I suspect I'm going to be desperately homesick more days than once. But I'll truly, truly try not to disgrace you and Woodbine. Yes, we're coming Uncle Athol," as the Admiral's stentorian tones came booming up the broad stairway.
"Take them from here, you know, and stay overnight at hotels around. I've always wanted to do that; and we can now, dear." "Auto trips! Pooh!" shrugged Elizabeth. "Why, mumsey, we're going to the shore for July, and to the mountains for August. You and daddy and I. And Fred's going, too, only he'll be at the Gaylord camp in the Adirondacks, part of the time." "Is that true, Fred?"
We got behind on the rent mumsey bein' sick so, and not earnin' anythin'." In spite of a courageously cheerful smile, Jamie's voice shook. "Mis' Dolan down-stairs the woman what keeps my wheel chair for me, you know is helpin' us out this week. But of course she can't do it always, and then we'll have to go if Jerry don't strike it rich, or somethin'." "Oh, but can't we " began Pollyanna.
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