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It was very hard not to be allowed to tell his playmates of his wonderfully good fortune; but silence meant success, and he locked his secret in his bosom, not even daring to talk with anyone he knew, lest he should betray himself by some incautious word.
Marie-Louise and Philippe-Auguste, however, had now left the house, and were running up and down the street. They were soon surrounded by their playmates, by little girls, especially, who were older, and who were much more interested to inquire into all the mysteries of life, asking questions after the manner of persons of great importance. "Then your grandmother is dead?"
Then she had married at seventeen, and, within a year, had lost both her husband and her baby, a child bereaved of her Playmates for her husband had been but twenty years old and was younger far than she in everything.
All the other little boys in the neighbourhood went there whenever they liked, and he could not understand why he should not do so too. He did not really mean to defy his parents. He was too young for that, being only six years old. But the force of the example of his playmates seemed stronger than the known wishes of his parents, and so he disobeyed them again and again. Mrs.
And Bunny surely thought that Sue was as good a chum as any of his boy playmates. "Now it's my turn again!" exclaimed the little blue-eyed chap, as he went up the stairs, his feet making a loud noise in the empty house. For some time Bunny and Sue played at sliding down the banister rail, and then Bunny remembered what they had first come into the house for.
I'd like to have her all to myself the first time I talk to her," she said softly. Of course Gwen wished to meet Sprite when she was quite alone. Anyone who had ever known Gwen would know why. She knew that all of her playmates were aware that she told very large stories, and that none of them were true. If she had Sprite, quite by herself, she could tell what she chose.
Their playmates were generally considerate and did not apply these titles unless they "got mad." Forgetting themselves, these titles might be sent flying about freely as snow-balls in a January thaw. There was Worthington Wentworth. It takes a long breath and a very straight throat to say that, and we will not repeat it, but will call him Wort Wentworth, as the boys did.
In the mere exercise of the fancy, however, and the sportiveness of a growing mind, there might be little more than was observable in other children of bright faculties; except as Pearl, in the dearth of human playmates, was thrown more upon the visionary throng which she created.
He remembered that, as plainly as animal ways could talk, Umisk and his playmates had told him they wanted nothing to do with him. And yet the fact that they were there took away some of his loneliness. It was more than loneliness. The wolf in him was submerged. The dog was master.
Nothing could induce her all the time to take food, and soon after the interment of her fond playmates she lay down and passed away from life. This account, given by the mother of the children, makes me quite ready to believe in the truth of similar anecdotes. Tender affection is like a beautiful flower: it needs cultivation.
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