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" it went on, sagely, "not so much is known, except that she once worked in a well-known Cleveland society family as a maid and was, before that, a working-girl in Columbus, Ohio. After such a picturesque love-affair in high society, who shall say that romance is dead?" Lester saw this item.
Now that everything is settled, he wishes me to send you the enclosed check as some recognition of your devoted services to his late aunt five hundred pounds." "That's a very respectable sum," said Marsh, nodding his head sagely. "I could do with that myself," remarked Hornby. "I've never had so much money in all my life!"
Billie smiled at her mischievously. "That's the new name, isn't it? You'll be a nice crowd of farmerettes next summer, won't you?" "Maybe it'll happen before next summer," prophesied Kit, sagely. "Jean and mother like to call it Greenacre Hall, but I like Greenacre Farm, if we're going to do any business there. Thanks ever so much for telling me, Billie.
Why not make a straight smoke, the way a white man would, and let it go at that? Wunpost shook his head sagely and turned away from the gap he had had enough excitement for that trip. Bone Canyon, for which he headed, was still far away and the sun was getting low; but Wunpost knew, even if others did not, that there was a water-hole well up towards the summit.
"A good cook and a good provider," Lane suggested pleasantly, to keep the topic off conversational reefs. "A husband who thinks everything you do just right!" sighed Bessie. "Plenty of money and a few children for appearances," some one threw in. Isabelle remarked sagely, "A husband who knows what is best for you in the big things, and a wife who does what is best in the small ones."
As to the decorum, it didn't last, so far as Raven was concerned. Messages of a mutual understanding passed between his eyes and Nan's. He burst into sudden laughter, but Nan, more sagely alive to the dangers of the occasion, kept her gravity. "Well," said Amelia, as Raven, still laughing, solicitously lifted her out, "you seem to be in a very happy frame of mind. I'm glad you can laugh."
"Now cut one for me," urged Linnet gleefully. "But I don't believe it," persisted Marjorie, picking among the apples in the basket at her feet; "you don't believe it yourself." "I never knew it to come true," admitted Linnet, sagely, "but S is a common letter. There are more Smiths in the world than any one else.
You are a little run down." "Yes," agreed Silas, nodding his head as the animation faded out of his eyes. "I'm getting old. I think, Mr. Burnit, if you don't mind I'll go into the little room there and lie on the couch for a few minutes." "That is a good idea," said Bobby. "You should be rested for the meeting." "Oh, yes," repeated Silas, nodding his head sagely; "the meeting."
"And none of us grudge you being the head," said Jackson, sagely, "except, maybe, one, and he don't count." Heron made no response; but he wondered for a moment whether the one who grudged him his leadership could possibly be Mackay, whose eyes had a quiet attentiveness to all his doings, which looked almost like criticism.
Those four fellows and their dames are students of medicine. They have one hundred francs a month apiece, and keep house upon it." "And Suzette," said Ralph Flare, impatiently. "Oh, she is a couturière, a dressmaker, but just now a clerk at a glover's. She has dwelt sagely, generally speaking.
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