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I can't think that I ought to have done what you asked me, because I did not feel at all in that way about Mr. Gibson. But as I have only disappointed you, it will be better that I should go home. I have been very happy here, very." "Bother!" exclaimed Miss Stanbury. "I have, and I do love you, though you won't believe it. But I am sure I oughtn't to remain to make you unhappy.
Krebs oughtn't never to have gone into this campaign," he answered, relenting a trifle, perhaps at the tone of my voice. "He knew it, too, and some of us fellows tried to stop him. But we couldn't do nothing with him," he added dejectedly. "What is the trouble?" I asked. "They tell me it's his heart. He wouldn't talk about it."
Clear and smooth was gash after gash, cut in the bark, one above another, by Sol with his stout knife. "Every one o' them is a day," said Shif'less Sol, "an' to-day is the 24th of December. Now, what is to-morrow, Paul Cotter?" "The 25th of December Christmas Day." "An' oughtn't we to hev Christmas, too, even ef we are up here in the wild woods, all by ourselves? Don't this look like Christmas?"
When she picked him up, he like most of his fellow-clerks had no decent clothing but the suit he had to have to "make a front" at the store. Maud had outfitted him from the skin with the cheap but showy stuff exhibited for just such purposes in the Broadway windows. She explained confidentially to Susan: "It makes me sort of feel that I own him. Then, too, in love there oughtn't to be any money.
We don't want to be animals; we want to be human beings, and I'm thinking of the future and our children.... But you oughtn't to make me talk so much. Why did you ask me that?" "All I meant was that if Nikolai doesn't know, then it couldn't occur to him to kill the man, and that was what you were worried about. I just wanted to reassure you." "Yes, you're always so clever; you turn me inside out.
When I told her she oughtn't to do so, because it was breaking a promise, she only laughed, and said I was a silly little girl. Isn't it queer? "I want to tell you what an awful thing I did the other night. Maria Avery invited me to tea, and papa said I might go. I didn't want to much, but I didn't know what to tell Maria, so I went.
I want to tell you and I don't want to tell you perhaps I oughtn't to tell you you'll think me a brute, I dare say, an ungentlemanly brute for speaking of it at all and yet somehow " The boy, crimson, bit his lips. Marcella, arrested and puzzled, laid a hand on his arm.
Your mother and sisters have been here, so nice of them, you know; but everybody treats me as though I oughtn't to open my mouth for above five minutes at a time. I feel as though I should like to jump the brook again immediately." "Pray don't do that." "Well, no; not quite yet. You don't like hunting, I'm afraid?"
I wish with all my heart we could go back to the Precious Stones to-night and prepare them for battle. They ought to be prepared, oughtn't they? 'Well, you can't go to see them to-night, Hollyhock; and to-morrow, early, we shall be very busy getting the room ready for Aunt Agnes, for she is my half-sister-in-law, and she did her best to bring up your dearest mother.
"You oughtn't to say that. They all read you." "Me? I should like to see them! Only two or three at most," the young man returned. "Did you ever hear anything like that? He knows, haughtily, how good he is!" St. George declared, laughing to Miss Fancourt. "They read me, but that doesn't make me like them any better. Come away from them, come away!" And he led the way out of the exhibition.
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