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Your father has been so good to me that I'd be a very ungrateful girl if I didn't think he's the best ever." There was a scratching at the door and Bet ran to open it. "Well here's old Smiley Jim, come to see Kit! Nice old Smiley!" The dog came in with a bound, switching his bushy tail about and smiling up at his friends.
Contrary to his command, Mrs. Smiley did endeavor to forget these words in the weeks following, when the old mountain-man came no more to her rose-embowered cottage, and when Captain Rumway invented many ingenious schemes for getting the pale school-teacher to take more recreation and fresh air.
But in the mo'ning like this, when the world's kind o' smiley with the sunshine, or after dark when things are sorter violet soft and the mountains lose their edges say, would you swap it for any other country on earth?" Maloney nodded. He had felt that emotion a hundred times, though he had never put it into words. At Willow Wash their ways diverged.
But we have many others who come to our tea-table: Miss Smiley, who often runs in about six o'clock. All sweetness is Miss Smiley. She seems to like everybody, and everybody seems to like her.
"Hardly, my dear sir, hardly." But even as he spoke a voice, loud and clear, rang out. "Now, my dear fellow, go to the deuce. That comes to me." The reply Shock could not catch. "I think," he said, turning to Smiley, "we shall find Mr. Stanton in there." As he spoke he walked toward the door. But Smiley slipped before him.
"The years are gone by as though they was nothing, and still I've had her image on my heart. I've seen her to-day." "Her gentleman's still alive, ain't he?" asked Mrs. Smiley. "And likely to live," said Mrs. Moulder. "I've seen her to-day," Kenneby continued; "and now the Adriatic's free to wed another."
"Smiley Jim, I'm glad you're here, I've never been so happy to see you, in all my life!" Bet exclaimed. As if the dog knew that Bet needed him, he walked by her side, and growled as he always did when strangers came to the Manor. "I believe he knows!" said Bet softly as she patted the dog's head.
His lips were drawn back over his teeth in a broad grin. "Shake hands, Smiley Jim," called Bet. The dog put up his paw and Kit took it in her hand. "Well, that's the first time I ever saw a dog smile," she exclaimed in astonishment. "Our mountain dogs are nothing much to look at. Dad calls them curs, but I like any kind of a dog. And this one is a beauty, I love him already!"
"I'm sure Lady Mason ought to be very much obliged to you," said Kantwise. "Nobody needn't care for what's said to them in a court," said Snengkeld. "I remember when once they wanted to make out that I'd taken a parcel of teas " "Stolen, you mean, sir," suggested Mrs. Smiley. "Yes; stolen. But it was only done by the opposite side in court, and I didn't think a halfporth of it.
If he even see a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to to wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. Lots of the boys here has seen that Smiley, and can tell you about him.
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