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"He 'ain't quite got the eyes to see, Rosie, the big idea in it. He's afraid of life, instead of making it so that life should be afraid of him. Ten dollars cheaper I can buy that machine to-day than last week. A song for it, I tell you." "Ninety dollars to me is no cheap song, Roody." "The people got to be amused the same as they got to be fed.
"Oh, something that Rosie said last night quite astonished me, and I was wondering if it were possible she could be right." "Right about what?" "Why, that Chester Dinsmore is deeply in love with you, and that you care something for him too." "Oh, what nonsense!" exclaimed Lucilla with a half vexed, yet mirthful look.
“A pair of Shetland ponies, an automobile, a family of twenty dolls, your weight in silver dollars,” Rosie repeated after her. “Why, Maida, you’re dreaming or you’re out of your head.” “Out of my head! Why, Rosie you’re out of your head. Don’t you suppose I know what I got for Christmas?” Maida’s eyes began to flash and her lips to tremble.
"How intense it must be!" said Marian musingly. "I can realise that now as I never could before my little darling came. But now, about Rosie and her betrothed. Do they not expect to settle somewhere in this region, cousin?" "I think that question remains yet to be fully discussed; it is certainly still undecided. Probably they will not for some time settle permanently in any one spot. Mrs.
As the guests were leaving Thaine turned to Jo, saying: "I'm sorry about that last dance, but I'll forgive Todd this last time. Rosie cut her hand on a glass tumbler she dropped and I was helping Leigh to tie it up when old Bo Peep started the music. Here's the girl I'm to take home. Got your draperies on already. The carriage waits and the black steed paws for us by the chicken yard gate.
Never before had he realised how sad it was for them all that they had lost their mother, and how dreary life at home must have been all the year. "Poor Graeme! and poor wee Rosie!" he says to himself, stooping over the cradle. "How old is Rosie?" asked he, suddenly. "Near three years old," said Janet.
I didn't think Fanny good enough for him. And then, everything was so different, for a while it seemed impossible for me to stay. Fanny was not so considerate as she might have been, about our old friends, and about household affairs, and about Nelly, and all that. Arthur saw nothing, and Rosie got vexed sometimes.
It's almost good enough to remind me how you and grandma used to make it, Rosie." "Speaking of 'Saint Elba, Mr. Pelz, somebody must speak to Mabel Lovely about the way she keeps hogging center-stage in that scene with me on " "There's no center-stage left to hog with you in the picture, Spencer." "She crowds me to profile. They want me full-face.
It turned out quite satisfactorily, and Rosie's next duty was to chant the usual incantation over the buttons of her friend's pinafore: "Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief." There were just eleven buttons, which brought the ominous result, "beggar man." Rosie gave herself up to renewed dismay, but Elizabeth grew more joyful every moment.
Ellen and Mary are grave and steady, and work hard- -every stitch of my stockings was poor Mary's knitting, except what poor old Peggy would send up for a compliment; but Rosie I don't think she does a thing but sing, and ride, and row the boat, and keep the house alive! My mother shakes her head, but I don't know what she'll say when she gets my aunt's letter.
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