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Joe and me we haven't got a friend in this world!" "I will consider it a duty and a pleasure to assist the boy in any way I can," said the colonel in perfunctory form. "But first come in, have some breakfast, and then we'll talk it over. I'll have to apologize for Miss Price. I'm afraid she's abed yet," said he, opening the door, showing his visitor into the parlor. "I'm awful early," said Mrs.
It was not raining when she awoke, but the morning was gray and cloudy. She came downstairs early, so early for it was Sunday morning, when all East Wellmouth lies abed that she expected to find no one, not even Imogene, astir. But, to her great surprise, Miss Timpson was seated by the living-room stove. "Land sakes!" exclaimed Thankful. "Are you up? What's the matter?"
At the entrance they found the chief of the party returning from the cathedral, where they had heard mass, not exactly in state, but publicly. 'Ha! ha! good daughter, laughed the King, 'I took thee for a slug abed, but it is by thy errant fashion that thou hast cheated us. 'I have been to mass at St Mary's, returned Margaret, 'with my sisters. I love the early walk across the park.
Pett upon the new ship discoursing and learning of him. Thence with Mr. Deane to see Mr: Falconer, and there find him in a way to be well. Then home and till 12 at night about my month's accounts, wherein I have just kept within compass, this having been a spending month. So my people being all abed I put myself to bed very sleepy.
He was in his oilskins, for there was some sea shipped for'ard, and he greeted me with a savage ferocity which was meant to be pleasant. "Keeping a watch on your own hook, my fine gentleman, eh?" said he; "and after my orders for you to be abed that's pretty discipline, I reckon." I made no sort of answer, but turned my back on him, and continued to watch the twinkling lights of Deal.
My uncle the Laird of Nourn, as he was called had married kind of late, a common habit where the years bring strength and not eld; and Dan, his brother Ewan the soldier's son, had been at Nourn since he could creep, being early left an orphan. On the Sunday after the coming of Belle the gipsy I lay long abed.
She spoke an epilogue that Mr. Walpole had writ especial for her, and made some witty and sarcastic remarks directed at the gentlemen in our stagebox. We topped off a very full day by a supper at the Bedford Arms, where I must draw the certain. The next morning I was abed at an hour which the sobriety of old age makes me blush abed think of.
"You know your duty?" said Perrote, interrogatively. "You first help your Lady abed, and then hie abed yourself, in the dark, as silently and hastefully as may be.
"Ah! this may be so with men; but surely surely women never can feel thus!" "I suppose, a sailor's daughter yourself, you know Jack's account of his wife's domestic creed! 'A good fire, a clean hearth, the children abed, and the husband at sea, is supposed to be the climax of felicity."
Now it is as a voice heard faintly above the wind, borne hither and thither. Long, stinging nights, plenty of woolen blankets, and delicious sleep. Then the evenings, so cosy around the fire. H reads Scott; we listen and comment. Baby is abed long ago little Baby, four years old, born here also; knowing nothing of the beautiful world save what is gathered in this gallery of beauties.
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