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So she gathered one of the queer-looking, fragrant brown blossoms, tied it in the corner of her handkerchief and bruised it gently so that the sweet perfume might be exuded. "Um-ah," she breathed in the odor, "now I'm ready for Millersville." As she stood with Mrs. Reist and Philip on the front porch waiting for Uncle Amos she said to Mrs. Reist, "Ain't Amanda fixed me up fine?
"Um-ah; that's true," said the other thoughtfully. "It's quite possible." "Captain wishes to see both of you gentlemen in the ward room, if you please," came a message. Below they found all the officers gathered. Captain Parkinson was pacing up and down in ill-controlled agitation. "Gentlemen," he said, "we are facing a problem which, so far as I know, is without parallel.
"There," she cried in triumph a moment later, "I found the first one!" She lifted a small cluster of trailing arbutus and gave it to David. "Um-ah," he said, in imitation of a little girl of long ago. "Little Dutchie," she answered. "But you can't provoke me to-day. I'm too happy to be peevish. Come, kneel down, you'll never find arbutus when you stand up."
I had said the night before. "Um-um," Hawkins had murmured. "Must be two months?" "Ah?" Hawkins had smiled. "What is it? Life insurance companies on to you?" "Um-ah," Hawkins had replied. "Or have you really given it up for good? It can't be, can it?" "Oh-ho," Hawkins had yawned, and there I stopped questioning him.
Jeff, who was dirty and ragged, watched his chance. He had come from his home in a tenement house, not far from the fire, and his eyes glistened when he saw so many toys out on the street. "Um-ah! Jest look at 'em!" murmured Jeff. "Golly! I kin git one as easy as not outen dat open box! Wait till dat p'liceman turns around." Jeff watched his chance. The policeman on guard moved off to one side.
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