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And she is very young but very wise. She knows useful and charitable things like nursing the sick, and dressing injuries, and her own hats. And she actually served a whole year in the horrible city hospital! Wasn't it brave of her!" Berkley swayed forward to look at Ailsa Paige. He began to be tormented again by the feverish idea that she resembled the girl pictures of his mother.
He thinks he's a battery of horse artillery now; that's the very latest development; and I shed tears and the chandeliers shed prisms every time he manoeuvres." "The dear old thing," said Mrs. Paige, smiling as she moved among the shrubs. For a full minute her sensitive lips remained tenderly curved as she stood considering the agricultural problems before her.
I heard one say: 'Why can't they take off those white-winged sun-bonnets in the wards? And another sneered: 'Sun-bonnets! Huh! They look like busted white parasols! But, Mrs. Paige, our white 'sun-bonnets' have already become to them the symbol they love most, after the flag. Be of good courage.
Instead, he wore a light gray business suit, his collar was very knowing in cut, and his cravat of dark blue was caught with a gold pin. "Citified smart Aleck," was Mr. Peaslee's characterization. To tell the truth, he mistrusted the man's ability, and was afraid of him. If that fellow knew, Mr. Peaslee felt that it would go hard with him. Generally, Paige was popular.
The Captain came to a rigid salute. "April eleventh, eighteen-sixty-one!" he said with clean-cut precision. "Good morning, Mrs. Paige! How does your garden blow? Blow blow ye wintry winds! Ahem! How have the roses wintered the rose of yesterday?" "Oh, I don't know, sir. I am afraid my sister's roses have not wintered very well. I'm really a little worried about them."
The Freewill Baptist Church was organized in 1834, and in 1837 a spacious edifice was erected. Through mismanagement the society came to grief and the building was used for commercial purposes. In 1853, the society built another edifice on Paige Street.
Whether or not the household was still abed she did not know; no sound came from Celia's room; nor were Marye and Paige stirring on the floor above when she rose and stole out barefooted to the landing, holding a thin silk chamber robe around her.
In fact " she glanced sidewise "it is understood that no woman ever interests you for more than forty-eight consecutive hours." "Pure slander, Camilla. You do." "Oh not in the way I mean." "Well, but you don't expect me to be interested in Mrs. Paige in the way you mean do you?" "Why not?" she asked mischievously. "Because, to begin properly, Mrs.
Then it was supper at Delmonico's, and a dance and at last the waltz promised him by Ailsa Paige. Through the fixed unreality of things he saw her clearly, standing, awaiting him, saw her sensitive face as she quietly laid her hand on his saw it suddenly alter as the light contact startled both. Flushed, she looked up at him like a hurt child, conscious yet only of the surprise.
It's perfectly safe to think about it. You have no idea, Mrs. Paige, what warlike sentiments I cautiously entertain in my office chair." She turned nervously, with a sunny glint of gold hair and fluttering ribbons: "Are you never perfectly serious, Mr. Berkley? Even at such a moment as this?" "Always," he insisted.
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