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"Why, look, Mother!" cried the little girl, as she went up on the back porch. "The kitchen door is open!" "It is?" cried her mother. "I'm sure we locked it when we went away." "We did," said the farmer, who was the little girl's father. "Some one must have gone in a tramp, maybe. I'll see about this!" The farmer walked quickly to the kitchen door and opened it wide.
I'll stay at Fontenoy I'll stay at Fontenoy and care for Aunt Nancy and Deb and Uncle Dick and Uncle Edward. I'll dance at your wedding, Unity, but you'll not dance at mine!" She was gone. Unity sat down upon the porch steps and began to name upon her fingers the eligible young men of three counties.
And then followed such a whirlwind of sweeping and dusting and throwing about of furniture that poor Chet was dismayed and was forced to take refuge on the porch. However, when Billie, flushed and breathless and very, very pretty, took him by the arm and led him about to admire her handiwork, he told her that she was "some wonder."
It was a beautiful summer morning when we went out to look at the house, and there over the porch was written. "Bleak House." He led me to a seat, and sitting down beside me, said: "When I wrote you the letter to which you brought the answer" my guardian smiled as he referred to it "I had my own happiness too much in view; but I had yours, too. Hear me, my love, but do not speak.
The mouldings to the arches of this small arcade are of about the same date as those in the two outer orders of the enclosing arch on the south front of this porch. The two smaller arches under it appear to be later work, if we judge from their present character.
Or back to their old sailing grounds in the days of the All Away the South Seas. Steamers ran direct between San Francisco and Tahiti. In twelve days they could be ashore in Papeete. He wondered if Lavaina still ran her boarding house, and his quick vision caught a picture of Paula and himself at breakfast on Lavaina's porch in the shade of the mango trees. He brought his fist down on the desk.
It also was a long, low frame building with some great cottonwood trees before it and a few palms with their infinite and haunting suggestions of the tropics. It was with a sense of mounting excitement which still held that strong element of exultation that Hanson crossed the porch, opened the door and walked in.
As it was, she approached Rudolph Musgrave with a fixed purpose this morning as he smoked an after-breakfast cigarette on the front porch of Matocton. And, "Rudolph," said Mrs. Ashmeade, "are you blind?" "You mean ?" he asked, and he broke off, for he had really no conception of what she meant. And Mrs. Ashmeade said, "I mean Patricia and Charteris.
Once, when the roll of wheels sounded in the distance, she uttered a cry of joy and rushed out upon the porch. Every moment she grew more and more restless and feverish; and when the usual hour for retiring came, she wandered into Madeleine's room, instead of her own, and once more minutely examined the whole chamber.
He sat in the wide porch of a large old-fashioned house: his look was calm and clear, though years had quelled the fire of his eagle glance; his silver hair was borne mildly back, by the south wind of August, and a smile of sweetness played over his features, breathing the music of contentment. His heart was still fresh, and his mind open to receive an impress of the loveliness of earth.
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