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"When Phyllis found there was no shredded oats in the house for breakfast she changed the cover of the wash tub into sawdust and sprinkled it with the whisk-broom, chopped fine. "It wasn't a half bad breakfast food of the home-made kind, but every time I took a drink of water the sawdust used to float up in my throat and tickle me.

She led them into a large room, filled with the smell of the kerosene stove and strewn with patterns and pieces of silks. It was a cluttered-up place. "Here they are!" Phyllis exclaimed, going over to the table and picking up a dress. "Aren't they ducks?" "Don't touch, please," Miss Pringle said nervously; "they're only pinned." She picked up one of the costumes and beckoned to Sally.

The little gray-haired woman looked up with sparkling eyes. Under the name of "Phyllis" she had earned, ere her limbs were stiffened by age, great applause by her dainty egg-dance and all sorts of feats with the balancing pole. The manager of the band had finally given her the position of crier to support herself and her blind boy.

Griggs stewed up the poor remnants of last night's banquet; but at last the little boat appeared, gaily dancing over the waves, and Phyllis making signals of success. "Oh, yes, you may be thankful, you poor starving beings! Here, Mrs. Griggs! Accept, and do all you can!

I knew that Nell and Phyllis and the Chaperon would not pass by, and they didn't. There was a man inside, but he did not ask us to buy anything. He had the air of a host, pleased to show his treasures, and the Chaperon feared that I was playing some joke when I encouraged them to invade the quaint and pretty rooms. "I don't believe it is a shop," said she.

I hope some day to be able to prove it." The noisy entrance into the room of Muriel, Jerry, Leila, Vera and Ronny, with the disappointing news that Phyllis had lost the freshman presidency by only nine votes, broke up the confidential session. "We went to our room first but you were not to be seen. Thought you'd be here. Last I saw of you you had started on a hunt for Lucy.

"O, it is not only their 'cloth. That long surtout, and nicely adjusted white tie, and general smoothness and trimness, is all very distinctive and proper; but I refer quite as much to that peculiar self-containedness of aspect and that air of propriety and polish which surrounds them like an atmosphere." "Now we are quits, Phyllis, and I think we had better walk faster.

"Phyllis, you are one perfectly good brick," Tony said suddenly, dropping the teasing of Miss Priscilla from his voice; and he looked at me with just as affectionate an expression in his squinty eyes as when he looks at Pink Chadwell. It is a great thing for a girl to feel that a fine boy likes her as much as he does his most chosen boy comrade. I felt that keenly.

"I hope I have the strength of mind to bear it," faltered Phyllis. "We've only had two days of hoping for better things." "We've only lived for two days. There's no going back; there can't be. We've burned our ships behind us, and must take to the motor-boat." "Dearest, I don't think this is a proper time for joking and you in your bath, too," protested Phil, mildly. "I'm out of it now.

"Is it surely he? may it not be a messenger only?" "I think not so. There is an ermine pennon, and the foremost knight hath a circlet on his helm." "Pray God it so be! Phyllis, I will go down anon and see how matters be. Go thou into our Lady's chamber she slept but now and if she wake, mind thou say not a word to her hereupon. If it be in very deed my Lord Duke, I will return with no delay."