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But remember how soon a young girl's name may be breathed upon, and sullied. Molly has no mother, and for that very reason she ought to move among you all, as unharmed as Una herself. 'Mr. Gibson, if you wish it, I'll swear it on the Bible, cried the excitable young man. 'Nonsense. As if your word, if it's worth anything, was not enough! We'll shake hands upon it, if you like. Mr.
Julian, seven years old, writes to his grandfather, "Papa has taught Una and me to make paper boats, and the bureau in my room is covered with paper steamers and boats." I can see him folding them now, as if it were yesterday, and how intricate the newspapers became which he made into hulls, decks, and sails.
Besides, what is there I can do?" he asked again, and ended testily: "Faith, man, I don't know what you're thinking of." "I'm thinking of Una," said Captain Tremayne in that composed way of his, and the words fell like cold water upon the hot iron of O'Moy's anger.
I want it to be kept a secret to every one but you, my mother, and Una; but my poor father would he apt to mention it in some fit of grief." "But is there nothing else on your mind, Connor?" "There's no heavy guilt on my mind, Nogher, I thank my God and my dear mother for it." "Well, I can tell you one thing before you go, Connor Bartle Flanagan's well watched.
Many a half-suppressed exclamation of admiration, or a prefix of Bella, softens the hearts of those to whom compliments on their beauty come rarely. The other day, as I came out of the city gate of Siena, a ragged wretch, sitting, with one stump of a leg thrust obtrusively forward, in the dust of the road, called out, "Una buona passeggiata, Signorino mio!"
Somehow, at that awful time of the train-wreck, when we were in the icy water, Una and I, before the boy came, the big boy who saved us, through through all the 'horripilation', as he called it, I seemed to see a light; the the Light of Light Eternal, as we sing God and I knew, oh-h!
You mustn't chew gum in the office; you were to ask favors of the lieutenant, not of the office-manager; and you mustn't be friendly with Mr. Bush of the circulation department, nor with Miss Caldwell, the filing-clerk. Why they were taboo Una never knew; it was an office convention; they seemed pleasant and proper people enough. She was initiated into the science of office supplies.
If he's cleared, say, good-humoredly, 'Una, all's lost; and if if not, oh, desire me say to me, 'Una, you had better go to bed, and let yaur mother go with you; that will be enough; I will go to bed, and if ever I rise from it again, it will not be from a love of life."
Una discovered that the owner and the managing editor did not regard Walter Babson as a permanent prop of the institution; that they would keep him, at his present salary of twenty-five dollars a week, only till some one happened in who would do the same work for less money.
"I suppose we shouldn't have made Una fast," said Faith remorsefully. "When I think of it, only Jerry and I should have been punished. WE got up the concert and we were the oldest." "I sang Polly Wolly just the same as the rest of you," said Una's weak little voice, "so I had to be punished, too." Mrs.
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