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Then the girl admits, with some hesitation, that she is going to get married, and our wife or mother, as the case may be, hustles around and helps make the trousseau and pick out the linen. The wedding takes place in the parlor, and about a year later the young Swedish-American citizen who arrives is named after whatever member of our family is the most convenient as to sex.
"Ada Harcourt!" said she, and Ada, blushing scarlet, began: "I have brought " but she was interrupted by St. Leon, who handed Lucy the bundle, saying: "Here is your work, Miss Dayton, and I hope it will suit you, for we took a great deal of pains with it." Lucy tried to smile as she took the work, and then opening the parlor door she with one hand motioned St.
"Ah," said Aminadab to himself, "that's what the little iron soldier said in meeting." So he was strengthened in his resolution, and the persuasions of his friend were lost upon him. At night Aminadab sat by his parlor fire, comfortable alike in his inner and his outer man. "Well, Hannah," said he, "I've taken thy advice. I did n't vote for the great fighter to-day."
The cranberries, it seems, were not doing well over the fire in Judith's department, and she had hesitatingly proposed that they should be promoted to the parlor grate, where, after due apologies, they were placed.
The applicant must have some knowledge of French, be a good reader, have a knowledge and taste for music, and be of a lively disposition. Such an advertisement brought a young lady from Newark to a certain house in Twenty-fifth street. She had not been long in the parlor until she saw at a glance the character of the house. Both then spoke in pretty plain terms.
It was so natural that she wept over it, herself, when it was finished; but the Queen was delighted, and put it on her best stuffed rocking-chair in her parlor, and would run and throw it back every time the King sat down there, for fear he would lean his head against it and soil it.
When Miranda was gone the precious play hour was gone too. Marcia had only time to steal hurriedly into the parlor, close the instrument, and then fly about getting her dinner ready. But as she worked she had other thoughts to occupy her mind. She was becoming adjusted to her new environment and she found many unexpected things to make it hard. Here, for instance, was Hannah Heath.
Now in case the fish man doesn’t paint the glass of the parlor windows sky-blue pink, so I can’t see Uncle Wiggily Longears when he rings the door bell, I’ll tell you next about Bully and Dottie Trot.
A home in which men in your unhappy condition are made welcome, and in which they are cared for wisely and tenderly in their greatest extremity." "Then take me there, for God's sake!" cried out the wretched man, extending his hand eagerly as he spoke. "Order the carriage immediately," said Mrs. Birtwell to the servant who stood in the half-open parlor door. Then she drew Mr.
I presume the young people had either not seen me lying there, the Venetian blinds opening from the parlor windows upon the piazza were partly closed on account of the heat, or else in their excitement they had forgotten my proximity. I felt somewhat concerned.
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