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H. John did rather startle them when he discarded the ministerial black broadcloth for a natty Oxford suit of almost business cut. He was a pioneer in this among the clergy. The congregation soon became accustomed to it; in time, boasted of it as marking their progressiveness.
His last letter had been all about a fumed-oak bookcase he had bought for "our" books, and a "natty little hall-stand" he had seen, "a very neat affair with a carved owl on a bracket, holding three hat-brushes in its claws." How she had smiled at that! So like a man to think one needed three hat-brushes! "From the Listening Ear," sang the voices. "Once again," said Miss Meadows.
"N-no; I'm quite sure I'll never see you again," returned the boy, giving way to the sobs which he could not restrain. "M-mother says we will never come back again, n-never, never more " He broke down entirely at this point, and a few silent tears trickled over the kind old face of Nell. Natty was too much of a man to give way out and out, but he snivelled a little in spite of himself.
This Betsy you may remember to have heard mentioned near the name of Natty Huntington, who died last December; and a very angel she was too, I assure you. You see I speak of her in the past sense, for she has left us; and her friends are sure she is not less an angel now than she was ten days ago.
You leave poor old Adam alone, my lad. Adam indeed! What's Adam got to do wi' it?" "Everything, we being all his descendants, at least the Bible says so. Lords and Commons, Peers and Peasants all are children of Adam; so come now, father, was Adam a gentleman, Yes or No?" John Barty frowned up at the ceiling, frowned down at the floor, and finally spoke: "What do you say to that, Natty Bell?"
Natty and I followed after, but could not make way through the thick and tangled underwood so rapidly as the blacks. We were therefore left behind. Presently the rhinoceros turned, and came tearing towards us, forcing its way through the underwood.
"Planned beneath the summer leaves, on the far shore of picturesque Hell Gate, above smiling fields and bowering orchards of his Angevine home, those leaves had scarcely fallen when the story was told 'the most uniformly exciting and powerful of his fictions' 'The Last of the Mohicans, and Natty and Chingachgook were left in the wilderness beside the rude grave of Uncas."
Young Lofty, himself looking more like a brisk and natty college youth who had come in to buy a gift for his own mother than the successful business man he was, glanced at the embarrassed Johnny with thorough understanding. "I think I know what you want," he said pleasantly; and, calling a boy, he gave him some brief instructions.
It irks her to think of the others, young women, ay ... but she will try if she can't compete with them all the same. She has not begun to grow stout as yet, but has still a good figure enough, tall and natty enough; she can still look well.
The children in the American readers wore natty jackets and hats and high-heeled shoes, and winter wraps, even at play, and she wanted the Filipino children to look the same. A great deal has been said in the American press about the eagerness for education here.
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