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When she marvelled at this he said: "Now, look here, Mother, let's get this business straight, right at the start. I told you when I came I'd seen the woman I wanted. If you want me to go back to business, the way to do it is to help me win her." "But I don't want you 'to go back to business'; I want you to have a long vacation, and learn all you can from the educational advantages here."
Down by the laurel bushes is MY favorite spot, and among the rocks is a cave where I keep things handy when I get a resting-spell now and then, and want to be quiet. Can't get much at home, when there's boarders and five children round in vacation time."
So let us have no more of your tricks, or you will quite spoil your vacation by being very ill indeed." "But I had thought all emperors were human!" said Florimel, in a flutter of blushing penitence, exceedingly pretty to observe. "Even so, sweetheart, all emperors are not Jurgens," he replied, magnificently.
Pitman remarking this, said that his wife was not playing this week, and had gone for a few days' vacation, having left early in the morning. Remember, during the night he had been out for medicine for her. Now she was able to travel, and, in fact, had started." Mr. Howell was frowning at the floor. "If he was doing anything wrong, he was doing it very badly," he said.
I. The Hurrying of Ludovic Anne Shirley was curled up on the window-seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation at Echo Lodge, where Mr. and Mrs.
"I hope I can arrange my vacation so that I can attend the reunion, too," sighed Kathleen. "As Patience Eliot and I have been invited to be the Sempers' guests of honor, naturally I don't care to miss it." "Can you get away from the paper at any time during August?" asked Anne thoughtfully. "Yes; but only for a week," Kathleen spoke regretfully.
Olivia drew this maxim from experience she had been engaged to a school-days lover when she went away to Battle Field to college; she broke it off when, going home on vacation, she saw him again from the point of wider view. But Pauline scorned this theory; if Olivia had confessed the broken engagement she would have thought her shallow and untrustworthy.
"We have another week of vacation here at home so I wish you would write to this address before I go back to school. Then I'll try to answer promptly, too. "Your Sister Scout, MARJORIE WILKINSON." After the letter was posted, Marjorie waited breathlessly for an answer. She watched for the postman faithfully, refusing to go away from the house when he was due.
We can camp out, or, if we had to, we could sleep in the boat. I'm going to put a canopy on it and arrange some bunks. It will do you good and perhaps new ideas for your gyroscope may come to you after a rest." "Perhaps they will, Tom. I am certainly tired enough to need a vacation. It's very kind of you to think of me in connection with your boat.
But seriously, Gabriella, I crave permission to walk courteously home with you this evening, for it is the last of my vacation. To-morrow I leave you, and it will be months before we meet again." "I might have spared you and myself this foolish scene, then," said I, deeply mortified at its result. "I have incurred your ridicule, perhaps your contempt, in vain.
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