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"I do mean to, for she is good and kind to us," said Lulu, in a frankly cordial tone. "You were vexed at papa at first for marrying her," remarked Max, with a roguish look; "but just suppose he'd taken Mrs. Scrimp instead." "O Max!" cried Lulu, her eyes flashing, "how can you talk so? You know papa would never have thought of such a thing."
I believe her husband's life was insured for something, and they own their house. Pussy always looks well dressed, but they must have to scrimp in other ways." Pussy Dale was Roger's eldest sister, a girl of just my age. They were a family of five, four of whom were daughters. "I don't see that their being poor is anything against them," I said a little hotly.
I won't stand for it." "Harry, if if it's the money, maybe I could manage " "Yes and scrimp and save and scrooge along without a laundress another four years, and do his washing and " "I could fix the money part, Harry easy." He regarded her with his jaw dropped in the act of chewing. "By Gad! where do you plant it?" "It it's the way I scrimp, Harry.
Father lifted out the big roll of soft, velvety carpeting, gray as a cloud, with moss roses scattered over it. He was proud to think he could buy things like this for Mother. Of course now they had no need to save and scrimp for Stephen the way they had done during the years; so it was well to make the rest of the way as bright for Mother as he could. And this "Bonnie" girl!
And I sez, "You'll sup sorrow yet, Josiah Allen, with your tendency to save and scrimp. Jabez Wind don't know nothin' about such work; he hain't got any shop or tools and I don't want him meddlin' round my house. We want the rooms warmed good and we don't want a big noise and racket, as I've hearn they make sometimes, I couldn't stand it with such noise and cracklin' goin' on day and night."
"There's nothing I like more than a slice of real countrified home-made fruit cake, where they don't scrimp on eggs or butter or raisins. You'll give me a good big piece, won't you, Ida?" "As much as you can eat," promised Ida. "I can warrant Mother's fruit cake. Yes, we'll have a jamboree. Miss Monroe has promised to come in too. She says she has a weakness for fruit cake."
"Leave something to ask Him to-morrow." But Laura, knowing very well that the Lord our God is a jealous God, was mindful not to scrimp in lip-service, or to shirk the minutest ceremony by means of which He might be propitiated and won over.
"I am afraid, Dexie, that you will not find much left over, for the first few months," her aunt said smilingly. "You must allow something for your inexperience, you know." "Oh! I know that, auntie. But can I have it, mamma, much or little? Make the bargain with me, mamma." "Certainly, Dexie; but you cannot expect to save much out of the usual month's allowance unless you scrimp us."
At this point David spilled a kettle of water he was bearing from the pump, outside the door, to the range. "By gum! Susan Jane," he said cheerily, "I guess no one but you could put up with a blunderin' old feller like me. Ye better reconsider an' stay t' see the game out. Two eggs, this mornin', wife, or one?" "Two, David! You didn't think t' scrimp me, did you?
Hunt, the architect, a ticket, she was so tickled with his work. The dome on top of it is the biggest dome in the world, with the exception of St. Peter's in Rome. And it seemed to me, as I looked up at the dome, that Peter might have got along with one no bigger than this. Howsumever, it hain't for me to scrimp anybody in domes. But this wuz truly enormious.
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