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Tell him to bring on his 'armed guards." Pen was startled. "Sara, what have you done?" Sara laughed. "If you and Jim don't know, I'm not the proper one to tell you! One of your gentleman friends is outside, evidently waiting for you." Pen looked out. Old Suma-theek was standing on the trail, arms folded, watching the tent patiently.
"Oh, don't do that, Sara; 'twould be too dreadful! I'll try, I really will; but you must remember I'm not like you. I don't care for books, and I do like people; and it's awfully lonesome with nobody but you and Morton! Other girls have parties and rides, and lots of nice times; and I don't even have girlfriends to come and visit me; it's lonesome, it is!"
"There's lots you never heard of, Mrs. Ploughman," said Mrs. Tomkins. And folding her hands, she gazed at her friend with quiet satisfaction. Little Juliet, playing on the steps with her doll Sara, missed none of this conversation, only a part of which, however, she understood.
Where are your eyes, my dear lady, that you can't see the promise of loveliness in Betty?" "Betty is seventeen, and she is as lanky and brown as ever she was," sighed Sara. "When I was seventeen I was the belle of the county and had had five proposals. I don't believe the thought of a lover has ever entered Betty's head." "I hope not," I said shortly. Somehow, I did not like the suggestion.
"There, you have another sister," said the father, leading the children towards each other; "Sara, these are your sisters love one another, and be kind to one another, my children." The children looked at each other, somewhat surprised; but as Henrik and Louise took the little stranger by the hand, they soon all emulated each other in bidding her welcome.
"I shan't live abroad unless Hetty reconsiders her decision to not marry me," said the young man dismally. "'Gad, Sara, you must convince her that I love her better than " "I think she knows all that, Brandon. As I said before, wait! And now, Mr. Carroll, I have this to say to your suggestion: I for one am relentlessly opposed to the plan you advocate.
Well, he died and I got well, and as soon as I was strong enough I hired on board a ship bound for Cardiff. I went at once to a lawyer to see about my 500 pounds, and I felt a rich man, I can tell you, but there was no pleasure in it, Sara.
Unfortunately, however, there's no getting round the entail, and when I go, my cousin, Major Durward, will reign in my stead." "Why does the Court go to a Durward?" asked Sara listlessly. "Aren't there any Lovells to inherit?" "He is a Lovell. His father and mine were brothers, but his godfather, old Timothy Durward left him his property on condition that he adopted the name.
Isn't it enough for you to know that Sara is my loyal, devoted friend; that she " "Wait!" he commanded darkly. "Is it possible that she did not discover your secret until the day you left her house so abruptly? Does that explain your sudden departure?" "I can answer that," she said quietly. "She has known everything from the day I met her.
But I do not need to tell you that Sara was; for it was one of her loveliest tail-feathers, a rich, curling plume of the deepest rose, from which sweet odors were shaken out as Sara lifted it to the light. Weeks afterward, when Sara astonished her mother by begging for the pink plume on her prettiest hat, what she was really pining for was a lock of the Plynck's hair.
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