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"My Merry seems to be contented with her brothers so far, but I shouldn't wonder if I had my hands full by and by," added Mrs. Grant, who already foresaw that her sweet little daughter would be sought after as soon as she should lengthen her skirts and turn up her bonny brown hair.
And, heaven help us," cried Ralph, "how cheered-up old Osmond will be!" His companion frowned. "I say, don't spoil it. I shouldn't propose for his daughter to please HIM." "He'll have the perversity to be pleased all the same." "He's not so fond of me as that," said his lordship. "As that?
Sam was broad-gauge in everything he did. He sold his goods at the marked price, for cash only got a decent profit and told you so. Why shouldn't he? He had a sense of style. He was keenly alive to the artistry of clothes and his enthusiasm was contagious. Sam was firmly convinced that a man has to spend money to make money in the clothing business.
"Most women would jump at the chance," Hazel interrupted. "Well, I'm not most women. I don't consider myself as a marketable commodity, nor my looks as an aid to driving a good bargain in a matrimonial way. I simply don't care for you as you would want me to and I'm very sure I never would. And, seeing that you do feel that way, it's better that we shouldn't be thrown together as we are here.
"And I shouldn't wonder if Ma had him put in the big lock-up," she said, "for scaring our horse, and tipping us out on the road. We may get reumonia for being thrown into the snow." "Ye can't 'rest Chub; he ain't nothin' but a big baby," said Mandy, "an' what's reumonia, anyway?" Patricia would not reply.
Schuneman walked up to the cage and looked at Jenny Lind, who looked at her with her bright bead-like eyes before she burst into joyous song. "Now, why didn't I think of a canary?" Mrs. Schuneman demanded sharply. "There isn't any reason why I shouldn't have one." "You're perfectly welcome to Jenny Lind until you get one of your own."
I shouldn't dream of letting you go, after such disgraceful conduct. To think you could have tricked me so!" "My dear auntie, of course I shall go," said Austin, drawing on his gloves. "Why you should wish me to stay, I cannot imagine. What on earth makes you so insistent that I should meet these friends of yours?"
"Because," answered Soames, with his smile a little on one side, "they happen to have agreed to our suzerainty." "Suzerainty!" repeated June scornfully; "we shouldn't like anyone's suzerainty over us." "They got advantages in payment," replied Soames; "a contract is a contract." "Contracts are not always just," fumed out June, "and when they're not, they ought to be broken.
"'It shouldn't, Hawley, I answered, meekly; 'but it's condemnedly unusual, you know, for a man to associate even with his best friends fifteen years after they've died and been buried.
"That's a fine way to do," murmured George, and then Sam shied a tin plate at him. As soon as the meal was over there was a drill lasting half an hour, and then the cadets were permitted to do as they pleased until noon. Some went boating, some fishing, while others took a swim, or simply "knocked around" as Sam expressed it. "I shouldn't mind a swim," said Tom. "Who will go in with me"?
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