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"He won't tell any one what he intends to do. I've asked him a hundred times. He knows, too. He really isn't as foolish as he looks." "I'm going to try for a position in the Department of Forestry at Washington after I get through college," announced Tom Gray. "I'm going into business with my father," declared Reddy. "I don't know yet what my work will be," said David Nesbit reflectively.
My aunt says nothing against her, but I sometimes fancy she is afraid of her. 'Poor Mrs. Nesbit. She must be altered indeed! 'She is altered, but I never am clear how far it is any real change, or only weakness. One comfort is, that she seems rather to like Cousin Hugh's coming to read to her twice a week. How he will delight in these creatures of yours. 'Ah! we know him, said Violet.
As it was, if any man in the street was seen to be absolutely stationary and absorbed in an evening paper, an observer would have discovered that the main feature of its pages was a portrait of Evelyn Nesbit in some new dress or attitude, with her eyes half raised or drooping, and her hair tied up behind in a black, semichildish bow. Mr.
"We can readily understand how deeply it must have grieved you to shun the dressmaker, put off writing your theme, and tear yourself away from your correspondence," sympathized Miriam Nesbit, her eyes twinkling. "Then, as long as you understand it, we won't say anything more about it," was Emma's hasty reply. "I move that we avoid personalities and proceed to business."
It was Miriam Nesbit, riding flat on her stomach and going like the wind. "Jump to the left, Anne," cried Grace's voice, "or you'll be hurt!" Anne looked up and saw the sled.
We really should have made arrangements before-hand, and if we hadn't waited until the last moment to decide to what college we wished to go we might be cosily settled now." "Perhaps we are only fulfilling our destiny," smiled Miriam Nesbit. "Perhaps," agreed Grace in a doubtful tone.
Anne flushed at the mention of Miriam's name and bowed distantly to the newcomer, who was a junior at the High School and quite grown-up to the young freshmen. David Nesbit, like his sister, was tall, dark and handsome; but unlike her, he was quiet and unassuming.
"Good for you!" said Heywood. "Now let him come, as the Lord Mayor said of the hare. What sport! With an even chance And what a load off one's mind!" He moved away to the window, as though searching for air. Instead of moonlight, without, there swam the blue mist of dawn. "Not a word must ever reach old Gilly," he mused. "Do you hear, Nesbit?"
One day they unearthed Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit and redid their past, present, and probable future. We discussed whether Olive Thomas had really committed suicide or died of an overdose of something. How many nights a week could a girl dance and work next day? Minnie was past her dancing days.
But it was Nesbit who, wrenching a pair of loose bottles from the path, brandishing them aloft like clubs, and shouting the unseemly battle-cries of a street-fighter, led the white men into this deadly breach. At the first shock, the rioters broke and scattered, fled round corners of the wall, crashed through bamboos, went leaping across paddy-fields toward the river.
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