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Uncle Dick, however, encouraged me to go on questioning him, and I quickly picked up the names of a good many of the birds. Now it would be a magnificent macaw all blue and scarlet. Then a long-tailed paroquet of the most delicate green, and directly after quite a trayful of the most lovely little birds I had ever seen.
"It looks very much like it, Miss Dorothy," she answered; "but I did not forget you; I brought you up a whole trayful of things." "I can not eat," sighed Dorothy, and she murmured under her breath: "Yes, they forgot me forgot me! Come here, my good girl," she went on, very nervously; "there is something I want you to do for me." Katy came close to her side.
The command was not only familiar on the occasion of his visits, but evidently anticipated, for she appeared in a moment with a trayful of bottles. "Bad habit of yours, Albert, teetotalism ... makes the brain cloudy ... insidious." He took a long drink. "Very little real bourbon left ... European imitation vile ... learning to like Holland gin." He drank again.
At any rate, he would be too lofty to give any sign that he had heard her return. Under less sinister circumstances he might have yelled gaily: "I say, Rache!" for in a teasing mood he would sometimes prefer "Rache" to "Louise." Rachel from the lobby could see the fire bright in the kitchen, and a trayful of things on the kitchen table ready to be brought into the parlour for high tea. Mrs.
"Better late than never," laughed Bessie, casting a backward and withering glance at the aliens as she moved away with her trayful of scarlet blossoms to the branchers' table, where another relay of workers twisted green leaves among the scarlet and tied them in wreaths and bunches. By eleven o'clock I had made two dozen poppies, which Amelia told me was "just grand for a beginner."
"How long can you remain here?" "I don't know exactly." Sewell turned and followed the manager into the refrigerator room, where he had remained patiently whistling throughout this interview. When he came back, Lemuel had carried one trayful of bowls upstairs, and returned for another load, which he was piling carefully up for safe transportation.
"The drawers are exactly alike; you can't have got the fern-sheets quite flush with each other," and I began to arrange the trayful of things I had brought up-stairs in the bottom of the cupboard. "I know it's the drawer," I heard Charlie say. Then I heard him banging at the wood with his fists and his crutch.
"Where can I make an inquiry here?" he said, addressing a porter who was bringing a trayful of glasses from the furthest recesses of the office. "I have to make an inquiry here and to take a copy of a resolution of the Council." "That way please! To that one sitting near the window!" said the porter, indicating with the tray the furthest window.
Just then Miss Schuyler appeared, with a glass jar of jelly in her hand; the maid was following with a trayful. "Joe wants to go to the city, Aunt Rachel," said Phil. "I dare say," was the ready response.
Sewell promised to buy his wood there, put the card respectfully into his pocket, and followed the manager downstairs, and through the basement to the kitchen. He arrived just as Lemuel was about to lift a trayful of clean soup-bowls, to carry it upstairs. After a glance at the minister, he stood still with dropped eyes.
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