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I’d a gone after her myself only grandma’d make sech a fuss, and hev to know it all. You needn’t be afraid o’ me. I’ll keep still.” By this time David was thoroughly alive to the situation and much alarmed.
It’s all up with you, Jack, and your aunt will have to to go down for another damage suit when you begin to perceive that you have had enough of our family. But you’ll have to get out now, Betty, and let him get dressed for dinner. You needn’t cry about it either for he’s even more attractive in his glad rags than he is in his railway dust—my word of honor on it."
And she lying there looking as if she wouldn’t live a day. But she always hated me.” I said bitterly, “You needn’t have worried her like this. If she had not lived for another day you would have had this house and everything else besides; a bigger bit than even your wolfish throat can swallow, Mademoiselle Therese.”
He doesn’t love you and he never can. He will always love me. He’s as much mine as if I had married him, in spite of all your attempts to take him. Oh, you needn’t put up your baby mouth and pucker it as if you were going to cry. Cry away. It won’t do any good. You can’t make a man yours, any more than you can make somebody’s clothes yours. They don’t fit you any more than he does.
Miranda’s honest face among the currant bushes when she had said, “You needn’t be afraid of me, I’ll keep still,” came to mind. Miranda had evidently scented out the true state of the case and filled in the breach, taking care not to divulge a word. He blest her kindly heart and resolved to show his gratitude to her in some way.
“It ain’t fur,” said Miranda as if that were a minor matter. “I’ll go right along in with you, then you needn’t feel lonely. I guess likely it’s business. Don’t you worry.” The tone was reassuring, but Marcia’s face looked troubled. “No, I guess that won’t do, Miranda, for the note says it is a private matter and I must come alone. You know Mr.
And you needn’t think for a minute that I am going to let you draw up a family budget, and expect to make me live by it.” “You didn’t buy those feathers,” said Daniel, cutting her off in the middle of her harangue. “I didn’t buy them, and they were not given to me! How did I get them then?
Moreover, he is always with his regiment at the outposts. He is a most valorous captain. I heard some people describe him as foolhardy.” “Oh, he needn’t seek death,” she said in an indefinable tone. “I mean as a refuge. There will be nothing in his life great enough for that.” “You are angry. You miss him, I believe, Doña Rita.” “Angry? No! Weary. But of course it’s very inconvenient.
"I look nice myself when I’m dinner-dressed," said the sister, "so I sympathize with him and I’ll go with pleasure. Good-bye." She sort of backed toward the door and Jack sprang to open it for her. "You can kiss her hand, if you like," Burnett said kindly. "They do in Germany, you know. I don’t mind and mamma needn’t know."
At the mention of "Marster William," who was looked upon as a great man, but a dead one, the little negroes gathered around, and one of them, our old friend, Bobaway, said, "Oh, Laddy, I hope ’tis Marster William, for Marster Josh’ll be so tickled that he won’t keer if we don’t do nothin’ for a week; and I needn’t milk the little heifer, nuther! Oh, good, good!"
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