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Yes, you're caught!" she commented ungenerously. "I know exactly what you were saying. Shall I tell you? No, p'raps I'd better not. I'll tell you what you looked like instead, shall I? You looked exactly like that funny old speckled hen in the yard who always clucks such a lot.
"She complained of not feeling well this afternoon." But Hannibal's anxious face in the door now caught her attention, and she joined him at once. "Didn't you meet Miss Zell?" he asked in a whisper. "Meet her? No," answered Edith, excitedly. "Dat's quare. She went out with hat and shawl on a little while ago. P'raps she's come back, and gone upstairs again."
'I should think, she said at last 'I should think you would want to get better to help to take care of your papa and make him better. Biddy started at this. It was a new idea. 'Do you think they'd let me? she said in a half whisper. 'I thought I was too little. Did you ever help to take care of your papa when he was ill? But p'raps he's never been ill?
It ain't the kings we admire, it's their crowns; it ain't the millionaires, it's their millions; but, after all, the millionaires don't take their millions with them, for Providence, that, like Nature, hates waste, knows that if they did they'd melt, so one man dead gives another bread, as the saying goes, or p'raps I should say gingerbread in such cases.
What did my agent write you on the 15th?" "I fancied p'raps that if I came to see you ma man to man like, Miss. But " His eyes rolled into every corner of the room wide with horror. He half opened the door through which he had entered, but I noticed it shut again from without and firmly. "He wrote what I told him," she went on. "You are overstocked already.
Come and choose a place for the bee-skip to stand. Where shall they go?" "Oh, not anywhere near me!" cried Bella; "I don't like bees." "P'raps you'll like the honey. The man says he had pounds and pounds of honey last year. Come on, Bella. Come and help me choose a spot." Bella went, but not very joyfully, and Tom followed.
'P'raps, now and then, there's some honest people as likes it, observed Mr. Weller, in a ruminative tone, 'but I never heerd o' one as I can call to mind, 'cept the little dirty-faced man in the brown coat; and that was force of habit. 'And who was he? inquired Mr. Pickwick. 'Wy, that's just the wery point as nobody never know'd, replied Sam. 'But what did he do?
Stop it now!" as Huldah wrenched herself away. "P'raps that'll teach you," and he caught her a heavy blow on the ear. Mrs. Perry screamed. "Don't hurt her oh, don't do them any harm!" she pleaded. "Promise not to beat them." It seemed to her impossible to resist him, they were helpless there, those two alone. Huldah and Dick must go. Huldah's heart sank with overwhelming sorrow.
P'raps that's the way to Paradise where father and grandfather and brother have gone." "Yes," said their mother, helping them into their clothes. "It is one of the ways." "Tell us about this place, please," begged Ethelwyn, "and how we happened to come to such a de-lic-ious place. Will you have to work so hard, motherdy, here? And will the little lines come between your eyes?"
"I ain't never seen a circus." "No more have I," replied Danny. "Can't you 'maginary something?" asked Celia Jane. "We could ''maginary things'," interposed Nora, "but they might not be in a circus." "There's more'n one circus picture up," said Jerry. "Darn Darner said there was one at Jenkins' corner and one on Jeffreys' barn. P'raps they'll tell us what's in a circus." "Of course," said Danny.
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