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"You be right, Sonny," interjected Aunt Alvirah, who sometimes forgot that Tom, as well as the girls, was grown up. She rose from her chair with her usual, "Oh, my back! and oh, my bones! You young folks should be dancing and frolicking " "But the war, Auntie!" murmured Ruth. "You'll neither make peace nor mar it by worriting. No, no, my pretty!
Mary would come upstairs soon; and with a strange, sick, shrinking yearning, Ruth awaited her and the crumbs of intelligence she might drop out about him.
Miss Ruth was always so fond of "making believe". So things went on very quietly and comfortably, and though Ruth could not discover that the kitchen cat got any fatter, it had certainly improved in some ways since her attentions. Its face had lost its scared look, and it no longer crept about as close to the ground as possible, but walked with an assured tread and its tail held high.
You seemed to be as well acquainted as though you had spent the summer together." "Some people have a way of seeming like friends on short acquaintance," Flossy said, with grave face and smiling eyes. "You two missed a good deal by your folly this morning," Ruth said, as they met at dinner. "We had a grand lecture."
Where other children scouted for and fought imaginary Indians, the children of our hills hunted and fought imaginary fires. The forest fire was to them not a tradition or a bugaboo. It was an enemy that lurked just outside the little clearing of the farm, out there in the underbrush and fallen timber. Ruth was waiting for Jeffrey Whiting. He had ridden up to French Village for mail.
It happened that Ruth was one evening deep in a line of investigation which she could not finish or understand without demonstration, and so eager was she in it, that it seemed as if she could not wait till the next day.
A peculiar smile flitted over Louis Hamblin's lips at this remark. But he quickly repressed it, and replied: "So I heard and thought at one time; but he was deeply smitten with Ruth the night of the Hazeldean ball, and never left her side after refreshments; they sat in the balcony, half concealed by the draperies, until after one o'clock." "You don't mean it!" Mrs.
Charles's last speech had been made in a momentary silence, and directly it was finished every woman, old and young, except Lady Carmian and Ruth, simultaneously raised a disclaiming voice, which by its vehemence at once showed what an unfounded assertion Charles had made.
Cameron." The girl had been his Nemesis all day. Fred knew he could have given the party the slip at some station, had Ruth not kept such a sharp watch upon him. And here she was on his very heels, when he might have gotten well away. The next stop would be Scarboro. Fred did not want to appear in Scarboro again.
She proved to be the fishing schooner "Ruth" of Gloucester, and her skipper, who introduced himself as Cap'n Ezekiel Bland, explained that he had come to the coast after bait. "I 'lowed to get it in St.
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