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I only learned that people in Boston dressed every day in the week in their best clothes; that was what made the deepest impression upon me; for our best clothes hung in the closet until Sunday. Uncle Lyman and I went barefooted and shirtsleeved all summer.
"If I could know that no mischief would result from Agnes's presence, I would not regard it so earnestly. I do not wish to be uncharitable or suspicious; but I fear that her motives are not such as I could " "May I intrude, Uncle Allan?"
And she handed her the expensive instrument with an air of perfect confidence in her ability to take care of it. "May I stay over there with Uncle Teddy and watch them take pictures?" asked Antha, for whom the time was beginning to lag now that the others were not on the island. "Yes, certainly," said Aunt Clara. "I gave them plenty of lunch for three."
Fannie told him, and her name, also, and ventured to ask that, if he was going through Oaklands, he would be good enough to tell her uncle, who kept the livery stable, to send out for her. "I guess we can better that," he said, smiling genially. "I'm going to Oaklands to meet my trunk and stop over a day.
I said. "That, sir; listen. I can hear where it seems to be rushing in ever so far away." "Yes, I can hear it now," I said. "Forward, then," said my uncle, and with the water once more but little above our knees we waded steadily on after the light which Cross bore breast-high. "Cheer up, Pete," I said; "we must be getting on now. Why, if it came to the worst we could turn back."
"Take my word for it, uncle, they will postpone their departure to the last possible moment, and, so far from looking with smiles upon what they are about to leave for ever, they will leave it with very great reluctance, and in monstrous bad humor.
I wouldn't be willing, even if you were, Uncle, to let the matter drop. I want to know the solution of the mystery, and I'm going to find it!" "Bravo! Bernie, girl," cried her uncle, "that's the talk! As I told you I must know the truth of this thing, never mind why, I MUST find it out. But how?"
I suppose my uncle would let me have a farm under him?" "He'd see you further first." "Why shouldn't I do as well with a farm as another?" "Why not turn shoemaker? Because you have not learned the business. Farmer, indeed! You'd never get the farm, and if you did, you would not keep it for three years. You've been in the army too long to be fit for anything else, Walter."
Four or five yeomen ran down the steps, calling out to Tibble that their corslets had tarried a long time, and that Sir Thomas Drury had been storming for him to get his tilting armour into order. Tibble followed the man who had undertaken to conduct him through a path that led to the offices of the great house, bidding the boys keep with him, and asking for their uncle Master Harry Randall.
"They do not care if they leave a poor old devil" the appellation was appropriate enough "all alone, with not even a dog to keep him company or a cat which he could kick; off they go, dressed in the garments for which you have paid out of your own pockets; ay, and for which you have toiled and perspired " "You're quite right, uncle," came from Tom. The farmer gave a sudden start.
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