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She listened with great eagerness to Betty's account of papa's departure. "I was afraid that you would feel tired this morning," said the girl, turning a bright face toward her aunt. "I am sure I expected it myself," replied Aunt Mary plaintively, "but it isn't neuralgia weather, perhaps. At any rate, I am none the worse."
Theirs was a racking job, heavier than any other known to the boy, and one day he asked his mother: "Why do they care to carry all that wood for us?" "Because we pay them, and because they are mighty glad to get the money. Otherwise they couldn't live." "And where does the wood come from?" "The bank sends it as part of papa's pay."
Yes, I know it was; for it was on the 3rd of September that I had your papa's letter. We were going to a party at Prince K 's, where there was to be a celebrated Italian improvisatrice, and I would not give her the letter till the next morning. Theodora stared at her in incredulous horror.
Bibbs contented himself with a non-committal gesture. "Business is crawling up the old streets," he said, his long, tremulous hand indicating a vasty structure in course of erection. "The boarding-houses come first and then the " "That isn't for shops," she informed him. "That's a new investment of papa's the 'Sheridan Apartments." "Well, well," he murmured.
"And I shall be so sorry to leave you, auntie. I wish we could carry you away with us. I have so often thought how happy my friend Lucy Carrington ought to be in having such a nice grandma. I have never had one, you know; for papa's stepmother would never own me for her grandchild; but you seem to be the very one I have always longed for." "Thank you, dear," and Miss Stanhope sighed, slightly.
Sometimes she looked up and smiled at Floy; and then Floy wished she had not smiled at all it was so unlike the old smile her face used to wear in dear papa's life-time. Floy became very tired of that close room. There were no pretty pictures on the walls, like those in Floy's house in the country; the chairs were hard and uncomfortable, and little Floy had nothing to amuse her.
"Do you think you could get along until I try my hand up there?" he asked. "I guess we could," she replied. "Papa's at work now and we have some money that, that " she hesitated, to name the source, so ashamed was she of their predicament. "Yes, I know," said Bass, grimly. "We won't have to pay any rent here before fall and then we'll have to give it up anyhow," she added.
The three whom you left, when people used to waste pity on me for their being all babies together, now look as if any pair of them were twins, for Norman is the tallest, almost outgrowing his strength, and Ethel's sharp face, so like her papa's, makes her look older than Flora. Norman and Ethel do indeed take after their papa, more than any of the others, and are much alike.
George has been calling at my brother's door, with his papa's and mamma's compliments, and a request to know what Mrs Hope was crying for yesterday, at four o'clock." Maria covered her face with her hands, with as much shame as if she had been in fault, while "Oh, George!" was reproachfully uttered by the little girls.
What I suffered afterwards I couldn't tell you; because I only discovered my love for my poor Roderick through agonies of rage and humiliation. I came to suspect him of despising me; but I could not put it to the test because of my father. Oh! I would not have been too proud. But I had to spare poor papa's feelings.
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