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It was a very different thing, however, from Miss Anastasia's tea-table, or that of Miss Flora Quackenboss. Fleda enjoyed the whole time without difficulty. Mr. Douglass readily agreed to the transfer of Philetus's services. "He's a good boy!" said Earl he's a good boy; he's as good a kind of a boy as you need to have.
The sewing-woman greeted this speech with an unqualified ha! ha! and Fleda involuntarily raised her head to look at the last speaker; but there was nothing to be noticed about her, except that she was in rather nicer order than the rest of the Finn family. "Did you get home safe last night?" inquired Miss Quackenboss, bending forward over the quilt to look down to Fleda.
Quackenboss thinks it extraordinary, Fleda," said the old lady with her usual cheerful sedateness, "that one who has trusted God and had constant experience of his goodness and faithfulness for forty years should not doubt him at the end of it." "You have no doubt of any kind, Mrs. Plumfield?" said the clergyman. "Not the shadow of a doubt!" was the hearty, steady reply.
Quackenboss, the junior partner, who conducted the classical department and never whacked only sent down his subjects, with every confidence, to his friend. I make out with clearness that Mr. If I didn't feel that interest I must clearly not have inspired it, and I marvel afresh, under these memories, at the few points at which I appear to have touched constituted reality.
Quackenboss, who had come too, determined as Earl said, "to keep his eend up," excessively bland and busy and important, the fire would throw his one-sidedness of feature into such aspects of gravity or sternness that Fleda could make nothing of him but a poor clergyman or a poor schoolmaster alternately.
This is a sudden start." "Is it sudden to you, Dr. Quackenboss?" said Fleda. "Why a not disagreeably so," said the doctor, smiling; "nothing could be that in the present circumstances but I a I hadn't calculated upon it for much of a spell beforehand." Fleda was vexed, and looked only unconversable.
And indeed, it was an attractive sight, from the stand-point of color alone, comprising, as it did, nearly every shade of green, yellow, purple, blue, orange and red. The varieties attracting the most attention were Abundance, Arch Duke, Burbank, Coe's Golden Drop, Grand Duke, Quackenboss and St. Lawrence.
My dear Miss a won't you take my arm? I am gratified, I assure you." Yielding to the apparent impossibility of getting anything out of Dr. Quackenboss, except civility, and to the real difficulty of disappointing such very earnest good will, Fleda and Hugh did what older persons would not have done, alighted and walked up to the house.
Quackenboss; well, we do just the same, only instead of flapping our wings, we start the engine, and skim along the surface for a little distance, then elevate the planes, and immediately begin to soar upward. And it does the stunt as gracefully as anything you ever saw. Some time I hope to give you a chance to see how it works.
"But so we sent one of them to Barby's old mother for Christmas." "Poor Dr. Quackenboss!" said Fleda. "That man has as near as possible killed me two or three times. As for the others, they are certainly the oddest of all the finny tribes. I must go out and see Barby for a minute." It was a good many minutes, however, before she could get free to do any such thing.
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