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"We mustn't carry any of 'em downstairs," she said, while Joel set up a howl. "Oh, I don't want Dave to go downstairs and leave me," he whined. "Yes, you can stay up here with your crickets," said Polly, coolly, having shaken off any possibility of one remaining on Mamsie's wrapper.
In the course of time she got a very pretty note from Ralph, congratulating her, as he also had congratulated Polly, and expressing a fear that he might not be home in time to be present at the wedding. Augusta was so fond of Rome that they did not mean to leave it till the late spring.
Yes, by the time the little teakettle had lost its brightness, Polly had decided that getting one's living was no joke, and many of her brilliant hopes had shared the fate of the little kettle.
"Polly," said Ben, "we can put evergreen around, you know." "So we can," said Polly, brightly; "oh, Ben, you do think of the best things; we couldn't have had them in the kitchen."
I must have a great field; I like to do good to hundreds at once." "I am very glad of that, papa," said Miss Polly; "for then I hope you will not refuse to subscribe to all those pretty children at the Sunday School, as you did yesterday, when the gentlemen came a begging, because that is the very thing you were wishing for; there are two or three hundred to be done good at once." Trueman.
The old man's right eye surveyed her intently before he answered "I thought I knowed her, sir. As sure as we're alive she's the Polly, with Jan Johnson on board." How he arrived at the latter conclusion we did not stop to consider. The words had an electric effect on board.
It was delve and dig from sunrise to sunset." "Why, what a naughty mother to make you dig! Did you have a ladies' hoe?" "My mother died, Dotty, when I was a creeping baby. The woman who took me to bring up was a hard-faced woman. She made me work like a slave." "Did she? But by and by you grew up, Miss Polly, and, when you had a husband, he didn't make you a dog did he?"
"Don't be alarmed, Poll, it's only the doctor," he said, going out to the passage. "Pardon my coming so much before the appointed time," said a familiar voice; "but I have something to communicate before she comes something very important and " Philosopher Jack stopped short, for he had entered the room and saw that Polly had already come.
When they see this knitted cotton spread with its raised roses and lilies, those girls will know that we can have wonderful things here as well as there." So saying, Polly spread out the thick white quilt until the large double-bed was smoothly covered. Then she stood back and sighed with gratification at the result of her afternoon's work. "There now!
"Well, the only thing we can do is to wait and see if she will tell of her own accord; maybe she hasn't had a good chance yet to see Aunt Ada alone; we are giving her the chance now, so we will wait and see what happens." This Polly agreed was best, but they returned to the house to turn a cold shoulder to Mary, and to ignore her in every way they could without being directly rude.
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