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"But Oh, dear! a blue-striped tiger!" "Oh, it's only our big dog Splash," went on Sue. "First I was only going to let Bunny stripe his half of Splash. But a half a blue-striped tiger would look funny, so I said he could make my half of Splash striped too. It will wash off, for it's only bluing, like mother puts on the clothes." "And we're going to have a striped zebra, too," said Bunny.
"And we must go too, dad," said Sue, in a low voice. "At once. Come." "Yes," assented her father. "Yes yet wait a minute, Susie," and he stopped, his eyes on Markeld. "I'd hate to think I'd done any other man the same injustice I did that young Englishman. Perhaps the Prince of Markeld has also an explanation. If so, I shall be very glad to hear it."
He recovered himself directly, though, and burst out laughing. 'Suit of Sir Charles Bassett. Why, he can't sue: he is civiliter mortuus: mad as a March hare: in confinement. Clerk told him he was mistaken; Sir Charles was perfectly sane. 'Good-day, sir. So then Bassett asked him to wait a little. He took the writ away, and showed it Wheeler, no doubt.
Her life and his, her creed and his, were little now but memories memories which in Sue and in me must take their chance with the warm, new feelings, the cravings, hopes, loves, doubts and dreams of this absorbing world of our own. For the harbor was still molding lives. How anxious Eleanore seemed to be through, I thought a little bitterly. But Eleanore had good reason.
"That big actor man will put poor Fordy's nose out of joint with the film lady," Prue said. "Look out for that dog, Cis. It's the Perritons'. If you run over him " "Nasty little thing!" grumbled Cecile. "And the apple of Sue Perriton's eye," drawled Marian. "Be careful what you are about, Cecile. It all lies with the Perritons whether we get into society this season or not." "And that Mrs.
"True," replied the prelate, "but then I came to sue for peace, as a suppliant; now I come to demand, as an equal, the body of Gratian." "An equal, are you?" replied the usurper; "from whom have you received this rank?" "From God Almighty," replied the prelate, "who preserves to Valentinian the empire he has given him."
Opening the heavy door he ascended the two or three steps to the level of the ground, and there on the gravel before him lay a white heap. Phillotson seized it in his arms, and bringing Sue into the hall seated her on a chair, where he gazed at her by the flapping light of the candle which he had set down in the draught on the bottom stair. She had certainly not broken her neck.
This time she was sure it would be lots of fun. "All right," Bunny went on. "To-night, after it gets all dark, we'll come down, and sleep here." "S'pose s'posin' I get to sleep in my own bed in the house, Bunny?" "Oh, I'll wake you up," said Bunny. "I won't go to sleep, and I'll come in and tickle your feet." Sue laughed.
"Of course, if it would make you reproach yourself... but you do like me very much, Sue? Say you do! Say that you do a quarter, a tenth, as much as I do you, and I'll be content!" "I've let you kiss me, and that tells enough." "Just once or so!" "Well don't be a greedy boy." He leant back, and did not look at her for a long time.
But neither Auntie Sue nor Brian would consider his finishing the book anywhere but in the little log house by the river; even if there had been no other reason why Brian should not go to the city, if it could be avoided. "There is only one thing to do," said Auntie Sue, at last, when the matter had been discussed several times, "we must send for Betty Jo.
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