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With the little use we are in this line, won't there be an absolute lack of fun in our contributions? My idea is that it would be nicer were something said that could be appreciated both by the refined as well as the unrefined. So won't it be preferable that the person, in whose hands the twig remains, when the drum stops, should crack some joke or other?"
"Well," said Rosanna wisely, "perhaps not quite shout, but it is nice when they talk anyway. Mrs. Hargrave is always wanting to be a fairy godmother to someone, and now she can be just plain really-truly mother, and that is much nicer. I know she will love Elise, and she is so dear to lean up against. She is always so soft and silky feeling." "I never hoped for such luck!" said Uncle Robert.
"That's what I came on to see about, and I'll take you all back with me." "But it will soon be cold weather," objected Mother Bunker. "All the better!" laughed Grandpa Ford. "There is no nicer place in the world in winter than Great Hedge. The big hedge made of what are almost trees, keeps off the cold north wind.
I wanted to get down and pet the calf it had the dearest little snub nose but they bolted, and wouldn't let me near them." "I fancy they were not accustomed to meeting angels unawares." "Sir Redmond, I wish you wouldn't. You are so much nicer when you're not trying to be nice." "I'll act a perfect brute," he offered eagerly, "if that will make you love me." "It's hardly worth trying.
Here they can persecute Dissenters, without desiring they should Conform, conform to the Church they would overthrow; Pray for the Prince they dare not Name, and Name the Prince they do not pray for. German Clock-Work, the perpetual Motions, the Prim Mobilies of Our short-sighted World, are Trifles to these Nicer Disquisitions.
I suppose even Farmer Weeks wouldn't be mean if he really thought about it." "I'm sure he wouldn't and we'll have to try to reform him, too, before we're done with him. You see, if there were more people like Mrs. Chester, things would be ever so much nicer. She heard about the Camp Fire Girls, and she saw right away that it meant a chance to make things better, right in our home town."
"But I almost think it has got a still nicer flavour by growing up here in you, you old Willow-Tree." "My dear Blackbird," said the strawberry-plant, "you're often at the manor-house. Won't you do me the favour to tell the squire that I am growing up here?" "That I will certainly not do," said the blackbird.
He has never shown me what I should consider any particular attention, and never talked to me in the way men do when they are making love to a girl. Nothing could be nicer, and it was all the nicer because I never thought of this. I suppose it is because he is so different from some of the men I met in town last season, who always seemed to be trying to get round me.
"Now, Maria," interposed the father, "let her laugh; she'll meet with crying soon enough, I guess." But the woman could not be easily silenced. "Some day, Phœbe, you'll wish you'd been nicer to Phares." "Why, I am nice to him." "Well, anyhow, I think it's soon time you give up the world and its vanities," said Aunt Maria. The girl's teasing mood fled.
It has been very dull for you alone with an old woman, and I am sure that though you have not always succeeded, you have at least had the intention of making yourself pleasant and agreeable." "No!" Darsie shook her bright head in vigorous denial. "I haven't! I can be fifty times nicer than that, when I really try.
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