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He swung his swivel chair toward her and sat down. "Yes, naturally," he returned, with disconcerting candor. She touched the petals of her daffodils with a pensive finger. "Well, really, you know, I'd quite made up my mind to pretend at first... Women never like to come directly to the point. I thought up a silly excuse begging for an orphan asylum, to be exact.
Bubbles would cheerfully have let Dimple walk over her and never forgot to call her Miss Dimple, thereby expressing her willingness to serve her. Dimple was the dearest little girl in the world, but considering Bubbles her special property, made her do pretty much as she pleased, and her most dreadful threat was to send her to the orphan asylum.
Evarts, but if anybody is ambitious to adopt an orphan lady, with advice on tap at all hours in all matters from winter flannels to the conversion of the Hottentots, I will cheerfully lead him to the goal of his desires, and with alacrity surrender to him all my right, title, and interest in her.
I become more and more convinced that it would be greatly for the benefit of the children, both physically and morally, with God's blessing, to be in such a position as they are intended to occupy, when the new Orphan House is built. And, 3. Because the number of very poor and destitute orphans, that are waiting for admission, is so great, and there are constantly fresh applications made.
There had come in only one shilling, which was left last evening anonymously at the Infant Orphan House, and which, except twopence, had already been spent, on account of the great need. I heard also that an individual had gratuitously cleaned the timepiece in the Infant Orphan House, and had offered to keep the timepieces in the three houses in repair.
Take this sword that, with it, you may exercise justice, protect the widow and the orphan, repair disorders, so that, covering yourself with glory by all the virtues, you will be a blessing to your people." Then the prince returned the sword to the Duc de Guise, and knelt down.
"I know she is," said Champney emphatically; "and the more we know of her the better. You'll laugh at my experience when you have heard it; but first let us have the whole of yours." "You know, of course, where Mr. Van Ostend lives?" Champney nodded. "Did you happen to notice the orphan asylum just opposite on nd Street?" "No; I don't recall any building of that sort." He smiled.
"They remind me of a field of red clover, they're so breezy and so wholesome." "I must hunt 'em up," he returned, absently. "They used to be regular little devils. It's a shame for them to have all that money." "Why?" "Because they'll waste it. They don't know how to use it." "Perhaps they do, in a way. One Fourth of July they gave every orphan in the Orphans' Home two dollars' worth of fireworks.
"Hold the image of Abraham Lincoln in front of you. Never forget him. You you are a man after his own heart and and mine." The last word was scarcely audible. They started for ward, for his eyes were closed. But presently he stirred again, and opened them. "Brinsmade," he said, "Brinsmade, take care of my orphan girls. Send Shadrach here."
As you read, in the East, of men remaining motionless for days together, with their eyes fixed upon the heavens, my mind, absorbed in the contemplation of the things above its reach, had no sight of what passed around. My parents died, and I was an orphan.
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