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Her own outshone the one from Rittenhouse Square by many counts, so thought the mother; but all day long, as she walked behind them or viewed them from afar, she could not understand why it was that the people who passed them always looked twice at Elizabeth and only once at Lizzie. It seemed, after all, that clothes did not make the girl. It was disappointing.
"I've got to keep an eye on the people that are left here; you see they've had a pretty hard summer." "Not so hard as you have!" said the old man, as the agent went along the street. "You've never had a day of rest more than once or twice since you were born!" There were two letters and a pamphlet for Father Daley and a thin handful of circulars for the company.
But, although they stood so near, there was no lawful means of communication between the houses except the road; and the mile that implied was seldom indeed passed by any of the unneighborly neighbors. The father of Lady Margaret would at one time have purchased Thornwick at twice its value; but the present owner could not have bought it at half its worth.
She had not the quality herself; understood it as little as she possessed it. "Oh, I wasn't supposing that," she replied easily. "I was thinking that that was the only part of Kew I had noticed. I think I've only been there once or twice at the most. Have you known my brother long?" Sally's fingers gripped tight about her little parcel. "Oh no, not so very long."
Yes, I see you twice her age, and she a chit of a child. Ye can't do much for that kind once they get their heads set no matter how good ye are to them. And I suppose that when I found her that night on the door-steps and brought her into the kitchen, he'd turned her into the street. That's it, isn't it? And then she got to stealin' to keep from starvin'?" "Yes, I suppose so I do not know.
The mail wagon passed the tin box down by the edge of the pine thicket twice a day and the latest of these visits was between eight and nine o'clock in the evening. The household duties were finished before that and the three were sitting on the terrace with a world of silver light and cobalt shadows about them.
Gad, how the fat dog's running!" he continued. "He sees him! Ten to one he gets him! There he goes bang! A long shot, and killed clean!" "Ready!" cried I. "I'm ready, Archer!" "Bag your bird, then. He lies under that dock leaf, at the foot of yon red maple! That's it; you've got him. Steady now, till Tom gets loaded!" "What did you do?" asked I. "You fired twice, I think!"
He had to resume the thread of his daily life. He knew what affliction was. But he was young. Indeed to men of fifty, men just twice his age, he seemed a mere boy and incapable of grief.
Why look at that old 'Chickarlico; he goes twice a week to school and has two Sundays every week, besides ever so many feast days." "Oh, I can do another 'bit, no matter whether I am Jew, Turk, or Christian; but if I get an easy job I mean to go on the square, upon my word I do." "Who'll employ you, do you think?" "Why, I shall go to the society."
The wreckage, like a great lump, lay supinely on the surface of the water; he could not hope to move it. The day slowly passed; the sun dried his clothes; once or twice the bird made a sound a plaintive little tone and involuntarily the man moved with care, thinking not to frighten it. But caution in that regard seemed unnecessary, for the bird appeared very tame and not at all averse to company.
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