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"You are not pwetty like faver," she said, "you are kite an ugly old man, but all the same I like you;" and she kissed him, a slobbering, wet kiss on his cheek. "Jane," said Mr. Dolman, "this poor little girl is in great trouble. I cannot in the least make out why, but perhaps you had better let her come with me into the library for a few minutes." "I'll allow nothing of the kind," answered Mrs.
And it is one of human nature's queer proclivities that it seeks rather than shirks a combat when the loins are girt for the smiting. Walker, though eager to return to his lathe, was no exception to the rule. He looked a trifle discontented when the captain found him unscrewing the engine-room hatch. "That was a pwetty poo-aw scwap, sir," said he.
"It sounds pwetty; but I must have a b'ack bow, p'ease, woman, 'cos our mother has gone away to the angels, you underland; and when mothers go to the angels little girls wear b'ack bows at least, that's what Iris says. Oh, I say, Orion," suddenly concluded Diana; "what is we to do without Iris? She is our little mother now. You underland what I mean; doesn't you, Orion?"
My knock attracted a little chap of two-and-a-half or three years; his stout hands shoved the screen back, and I found myself ushered into his company. There evidently was no one else about, so I visited, and we talked on those things which are of importance in the world of three-year-olds. "Muvver's don to the wiver," he confided. "She tum back pwetty soon." "And Father?" I asked. "Where is he?"
"Ha!" said Peggy to herself, and took a step forward, only to draw back in dismay, as a light laugh reached her ear, followed by Rosalind's careless "Oh, I don't know; I wanted to make it pwetty, don't you know; it was so dweadfully bare, and there seemed no other way."
John was wrong and yet not wrong about the photographer; his threatened interposition came to nothing, for the very next morning only yesterday, long ago as it seems I was enlightened as to the cheap and silly trick that had been played upon me. "Thee, Cothin Nelly; pwetty, pwetty!" cried Joy, running towards me and holding up a huge poster picture from the Sunday Echo.
"How gay we are," he said, and pinched her cheek. Teddy in white linen and patent leathers also approved. "You've got on your spangly dwess, and it makes you pwetty " "Oh, Ted, is it just my clothes that make me pretty?" "I didn't mean that. Only tonight you're so nice and shining." She shone, indeed, with such effulgence, that it was a wonder that the General did not suspect.
"Too early is as bad as too late; it is chilly there till the company comes. No billiards, no hops, no pwetty girls, no sailing, no wides on the beach, no pwomenades on the moonlight side of the piazza. No, my deah, Nahant is stupid till the curwent sets that way." "Southern visitors warm the coast like the Gulf Stream, I suppose," said Greenleaf.
I never took any liberties with him." "Perhaps he would have liked it better if you had," said Rosalind slyly, and her eyes looked into Peggy's with a meaning glance. "It's a good thing I am so fond of you, my dear, or I should have gwown pwetty tired of your name during the last few weeks. It was extraordinary how every conversation with Hector worked wound to Peggy Saville.
Just a little further on Tot was sure and then But how long the road grew, how deep the dust lay, how tired the little feet were getting, little feet that can trudge about all day long in play, yet drag so wearily over long straight roads. "I sood fink I would tum to Soogar Wiver pwetty soon," she sighed.
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