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Poor, poor Nellie! On the first Monday in June our school commenced, and long before breakfast Lizzie and I were dressed and had turned inside out the little cupboard over the fireplace where our books were kept during vacation.
Every third year they are allowed to visit the United States or foreign countries with an allowance of sixty days' half-pay travel time in addition to the ten weeks' long vacation, and on completing two years of service after return to the islands they are entitled to their travelling expenses from place of residence in the United States to Manila or from port of embarkation in a foreign country to Manila.
The boys are hollering for those passes," and a wiry, sallow gentleman burst in, none other than the Honourable Elisha Jane, who was taking his consular vacation. When his eyes fell upon Mr. Crewe he halted abruptly, looked a little foolish, and gave a questioning glance at the Honourable Hilary. "Mountain passes, Lish? Sit down.
Bradford and Duffield becoming almost as interested as John and his mother. When the time came for Mr. Bradford to return home, John and his mother exacted a promise from him to return the following summer and pass his vacation as their guest. By the first of November the improvements were completed at a cost of $3,300.00, making the total cost of the place nearly $10,000.00.
"Get another minister," said Mark easily. "Where'll you get him?" demanded Aunt Philippa. "The minister at Cliftonville is away on his vacation, and Mercer is vacant, and that leaves none nearer than town. It won't do to depend on a town minister being able to come. No, there's no help for it. You'll have to have that Methodist man." Aunt Philippa's tone was tragic.
Gertrude went to her room to put the last few things in her trunks, and Captain Dan returned to the store, where he found the Bartlett boy pacifying a gnawing appetite with chocolate creams abstracted from stock. At a quarter to three the captain was at the railway station, where he was joined by John Doane, who, his vacation over, was returning to Boston.
I have found out that she lies some, but she says it is because she had such an unhappy childhood, and has promised to overcome it for my sake. "That Christmas vacation the 'We Are Sevens' went up the Hudson to the Bollings' again, but that was the last time they ever went there. Uncle David and his mother had a terrible fight over them. I was sorry for Madam Bolling in a way.
I shouldn't like to go behind the counter in a grocery store, or " "Black boots for a living?" "Well, hardly," said Walter, laughing. "Probably your guardian will consult your preferences." "I wish I could arrange to travel. I should like to see something of the world." "Why not? You might get an agency of some kind. One college vacation last summer I traveled about as book agent."
I shall be very glad to come." But Commencement was, as Crawford said, still a good way off and in the meantime there were weeks of study. The weeks passed, some of them, and then came the Easter vacation.
I put the lawyer's language into simpler words, and the man then understood and quickly cleared himself of the charge against him. At another time, the mill owners petitioned for the vacation of an alley because they wanted to build a railroad switch there to give access to a loading-out station of the mill.
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