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A loud murmur of approval greeted this effort on the part of the boatswain's mate, and then everybody awaited in silence the reply. A deep flush of gratification lighted up Captain Hood's features as he said, "I thank you from my heart, men, for your um generous wesponse to my call, and I am sincerely sowwy that I cannot take you er eh at your words.
"And I shall be back at the vicarage then, and we shall all be together! Oh, let us be joyful! How happy I am! What a nice old world it is, after all!" she continued hilariously, while Rosalind gazed at her with reproachful eyes. "Are you so glad to go away? I shall be vewy, vewy sowwy I'll miss you awfully. I shall feel that there is nothing to do when you have gone away, Peggy!"
Rosalind would have been ready to protest that she cared a hundred times more for her friends' feelings than for her own dignity, but when it came to the test she sacrificed them without hesitation in the interest of selfish pride. "I am sowwy, but if you cannot go, Peggy, I think we had better leave it alone for the pwesent.
Esther and Mellicent gasped with amazement, while Rosalind gave a trill of laughter, and threw up her pretty white hands. "She's wexed!" she cried. "She's wexed, because I called her little! I'm wewwy sowwy, but I weally can't help it, don't you know. It's the twuth! You are a whole head smaller than I am." She threw back her chin, and looked over Peggy's head with a smile of triumph.
Then she looked down at her doll. "Leave that doll alone. Speak as though you were sorry." "I'm velly sowwy." "What made you run away like that?" Angelina said nothing. "Come, now! Didn't you know it was very wicked?" "Yes." "Well, why did you do it, then?" "Don't know." "Don't say 'don't know' like that. You must have had some reason. Don't look at the doll like that. Put the doll down."
But Winocewus had to be tooked such care wof for fear of bweaking his horn an' Berta was such a little fing, vat vat " "That you wouldn't let her play with Rhinoceros. And you think it wasn't quite fair, or quite kind, and now you're sorry?" Hammy sniffed dolorously, and two large tears splashed down. "I'm sowwy.
So sowwy not to have been to see you! Fwightfully busy, don't you know. We are decowating the wooms, and don't know how to finish in time. It's going to be quite charming!" "We know! We know! Rob told us. I'm dying to see it. You should ask Peggy to help you, if you are in a hurry. She's s-imply splendid at decorations!
"She is an orphan, that is to say, as good as one, for her mother is dead and her father too poor to support her. She works very hard when she can get any work, which I am sowwy to say is not often, and she is as good as she is clever. I should be vewy glad if I could put her in the way of more work when the play she is in is taken off, and I thought you, Killigrew, who know so many people "
You pay taxes to have niggers educated, and made fit for such places and then won't let them fill them when they are pwepared to do so. I shall leave you, then, to tell them we can't take him. I'm doosed sowwy for it I like his looks." Whilst Mr. Western and his partner were discussing in one room, Charlie and Esther were awaiting with some anxiety their decision in the other.
Miss Violet's voice was heard calling, "Is that you, Emily? Tea's been waiting some time." It was nurse's afternoon out, and the nursery was grimly empty; but through the open, window came the evening sounds of the happy Square. Miss Emily placed Angelina in the middle of the room. "Now say you're sorry, you wicked child!" she exclaimed breathlessly. "Sowwy," came slowly from Angelina.
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