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"Of co'rse!" he said, half aloud, "of co'rse!" "Co'rse what?" the man demanded, querulously. "Co'rse she shot," Rasba answered, tartly. "Sometimes a lady jes' naturaly has to shoot, fearin' of men." Rasba landed the two boats in at the foot of a sandbar, and made them fast to old stakes driven into the top of the low reef.
I am of a forgiving Nature naturaly and could not forget that but yesterday he had been tender and loving, and had let me drive almost half the time. I therfore said: "If you can explain I will listen. But be breif. I am in no mood for words." Well, the long and short of it was that I was wrong, and should not have jumped to conclusions.
"Oh, please try to get it," I cried, almost weeping. "You can lock me in here, if you are afraid I will run away. And he is out. I know he is. He is at the Club ball." "Naturaly," he said "the fact that you are asking me to compound a felony, commit larceny, and be an accessery after the fact does not trouble you. As I told you before, all I have left is my good name, and now !" "Please!" I said.
"Now see here, Miss Bab, you've just come Home, and there was trouble at your last vacation that I'm like to remember to my dieing day. You tell me how those things got there, like a good girl, and I'll say nothing about them." I am naturaly sweet in disposition, but to call me a good girl and remind me of last Xmas holadays was too much. My natural firmness came to the front.
"But where in the name of good sense are you going to keep it?" he inquired, in a wild tone. "I have been thinking about that," I said. "I may have to buy a portible Garage and have it set up somwhere." "Look here," he said, "you give me a little time on this, will you? I'm not naturaly a quick thinker, and somhow my brain won't take it all in just yet.
Mademoiselle was once my Governess, but has retired to private life, except in cases of emergency. I am naturaly very quick in mind. The Archibalds are all like that, and when once we decide on a Course we stick to it through thick and thin. But we do not lie. It is rediculous for Hannah to say I said the cigarettes were mine. All I said was: "I suppose you are going to tell the Familey.
I do not agree with that poet, A. J. Ryan, date forgoten, who observed: Better a day of strife Than a Century of sleep. Although naturaly no one wishes to sleep for a Century, or even approxamately. There was Strife in the house. The first way I noticed it, aside from Hannah's anonamous remark, was by observing that Leila was mopeing.
But as I would not lie and say that I was ill I am naturaly truthful, as far as possible I was compelled to go, although my heart was breaking. I am not going to write much about the party, except a slight discription, which properly belongs in every Theme. All Parties for the school set are alike.
I was naturaly indignant at Sis's words, which were not filial, to my mind, but I replied as sweetly as possable: "I shall not be in your way, Leila. I ask nothing but Food and Shelter, and that perhaps not for long." "Why? Do you intend to die?" she demanded. "I intend to work," I said. "It's more interesting than dieing, and will be a novelty in this House."
She had, however, not locked her bathroom, and finding a bunch of violets in the washbowl I put them on. It does not hurt violets to wear them, and anyhow I knew Carter Brooks had sent them and she ought to wear only Beresford's flowers if she means to marry him. Jane at once remarked that I looked changed. "Naturaly," I said, in a BLASE maner.
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