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"Why don't you wear it just the way it is, honey?" Mrs. Jerry had suggested and very sensibly, too. "I wouldn't go and twist it all up and stick pins through it, if I was you. It's prettier just that way." Teresita had understood enough of that, thanks to the teachings of her blue-eyed one, to know that the pretty señora did not mean to keep her promise.
However, just at first they pretended to be rather high and mighty about this business of Hagan's. 'Oh! it's you, is it? says Bella, after we walked in. 'I don't know as it's safe for us to be knowing such dangerous characters. There's a new law against harbouring, father says. He's pretty frightened, I can tell you, and for two pins we'd be told to shut the door in your faces.
It was like the busyness of ants about their eggs. All that daily care had already rendered neat and clean was again gone over and brushed and rubbed and scrubbed. The china of ceremony saw the light; the damask linen marked "A, B, C" was drawn from depths where it lay under a triple guard of wrappings, still further defended by formidable lines of pins.
Here are the axes to build the trap with, if we don't find him on the island; there's a bag of corn for bait, an auger to bore the holes and the pins with which to fasten the logs together. Bert and I worked in the shop last night until ten o'clock, making those pins. I think we have everything we wan't, so we'll be off."
"Now, girls don't begin again," said Miss Macy. "Knowledge is a good thing," said the other, with pins in her mouth. "I intend to take every opportunity that offers of increasing mine; especially I mean to study Egyptians and Christians. I haven't any Christians among my own family or acquaintance so you see, naturally, Macy, I am curious; and when a good specimen offers "
Without turning in her chair, without taking off her hat, from which she had drawn the pins, she sat there like a woman in whom the spirit has been suddenly stricken. Beyond the window the perfect day, with its haunting reminder of the spring, was lengthening slowly into afternoon, and through the slant sunbeams the same gay crowd passed in streams on the pavements.
For two pins Peter would have employed an expletive even stronger, so determined was he feeling. Tommy without another word left the room. Peter looked at Elizabeth and winked. Poor Peter! His triumph was short-lived.
She flung herself down on the floor, she crept under the table, she shrieked, she said Goody Osburn was sticking pins in her, and wound up by going into convulsions." "What can it all mean? it is terrible," said Dulcibel.
"The truth is," he said humorously, "we are neither of us as steady on our pins as we once were." "Pins, Nicholson, pins! What are pins?" asked Professor Newman gravely. On another occasion they were out walking together and the first Lord Brougham passed them in an open carriage. Dr.
Darvid stood at the round table sunk in thought, with pins of irony in his smile and his eyes, with a cloud of wrinkles between his brows.
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