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'If it be flattery to admire your charms and accomplishments, rejoined Nicholas, laying his hand upon the scrapbook, 'you have better specimens of it here. 'Oh you cruel creature, to read such things as those! I'm almost ashamed to look you in the face afterwards, positively I am, said Miss Snevellicci, seizing the book and putting it away in a closet. 'How careless of Led!
He expressed himself as being exceedingly sorry not to have with him a scrapbook containing a great number of press clippings laudatory of his achievements, adding that he would have been glad to lend me the book in order that I might read its entire contents at my leisure. At length his fame, having first spread the length and breadth of our own country, reached foreign shores.
"My memory is not so good as it was," he said; "but I have got something by me that helps it." He took from a cupboard a dirty old scrapbook. Strips of paper, with writing on them, were pasted on the pages, as well as I could see. He turned to an index, or table of contents, and opened a page. Something like a flash of life showed itself on his dismal face. "Ha! now I remember," he said.
He had gone over every detail of it with Charley Edwards, and in his scrapbook at home there were pages of description about New York hotels, cut from the Sunday papers.
Seven years old, Pedro might have been, but he could move about only by sitting on the ground and hitching himself along. He was crippled much worse than Jimmie. "I wonder, couldn't I show Pedro my scrapbook?" he whispered, nudging Grandma. "To be sure; and I always said if you'd think more about others, you wouldn't be so sorry for yourself," Grandma replied.
I have received many letters touching what I said a little while ago of Stephen Collins Foster, the song writer. In that matter I had, and could have had, no unkindly thought or purpose. The story of the musical scrapbook rested not with me, but as I stated, upon the averment of Will S. Hays, a rival song writer.
At the last moment, fearful that the police might not know who I was, he had flung in a scrapbook in which he had pasted with a glue that was to make his fortune records of my exploits on the football field!
The talk drifted back to the early days, and "Aunt" Martha mentioned Balderson. To identify him she went to her scrapbook, and as she was turning the pages she said: "In those days of the early seventies, before the railroad came, when the town awoke in the morning and found a newly arrived covered waggon near a neighbour's house, it always meant that kin had come.
The Major had brought in "Tom Jones" and "Peregrine Pickle"; various works by Mr. Of course the bookcase held a few school manuals and compendiums, and one of Mr. Webster's Dictionaries. But the gilt-edged Bible always lay on the centre-table, next to the magazine with the fashion-plates and the scrapbook with pictures from old annuals and illustrated papers.
Turning to me, Zeno the Great was in the midst of saying that, though bereft of his scrapbook of clippings and his set of photographs, he hoped to be eternally consigned to perdition his meaning if not his exact phraseology if anybody got away with the even more precious belongings yet remaining to him, when nearing sounds of hurrying feet and many shrill voices from without caused him to break off.
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