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Could you do that?" "Of course. Why not?" "You are so young." "Oh, I've been around!" said the newsboy, airily. "I'll do it myself, Tows. I think Miss Armacost would be better satisfied, and I'd be surer myself," interrupted the reporter. "You see, lad, it's her picnic." "O oh! I thought it was ours." "So it is. Belongs to all of us."
Then they all clustered about that rear window which commanded a view of the Armacost yard, and watched their father floundering through the drifts between the small house and the large.
The gentlemen would have done it, if the waiters hadn't been there, and it goes. Some day, when I own the papers I sell now, I'll know just how to act. Ma'am I mean, Miss Armacost? Did you speak?" "I Yes, I did. I thought that as you had had a nap since since you had made your toilet, it would be as well to make yourself fresh before meat. There's a bowl and water in that closet; and towels."
I hope it is a happiness which will continue, because it is the beginning of a life for others. But I wish to make that life as wise as possible. I am afraid of mistakes. I want your advice; the advice of every one here present. I mean to adopt this boy, Towsley the new Lionel Armacost. Tell me, friends, how best can I rear him to be a blessing to his race?"
The alteration in his appearance was so great and his bow so correctly made that Miss Lucy cried out in delight and surprise, and was about to throw her arms about the child and caress him before them all. But the wise doctor prevented that, by saying in his quick way: "All ready, Miss Armacost; and I fancy your horses and coachman won't be sorry.
I am so sorry! I didn't see you and he didn't, and we were having such a good time. Are you hurt? Are you hurt very much? Shall I call a policeman? Would you like an ambulance? Are you the lady that lives in the house on the Avenue, the corner house with sixteen rooms and a garden and side yard, and " Miss Armacost was also upon her feet once more and had regained her self-possession.
After our admitting the railway on this avenue the company run their cars to suit themselves, not our convenience. Because I happen to need a car in the morning, they will, of course, not be running. Well, I must not be unjust. I suppose they lose more by stopping than I do by having them stop." Miss Armacost climbed to the storeroom at the back of the top of her house.
There is nothing of the sort. Some reasonable explanation will be found. You may return to your dusting." "Yes, ma'am. But if it happens again, just once, please, ma'am, I'd like to be let off, and I'll try to find somebody to take my place if you want me to." Miss Armacost vouchsafed no response to this suggestion, and pretended to sip her coffee.
She was promptly dismissed with the statement that Miss Armacost would herself attend upon the table, and the request to go to the third floor and make a warm bath ready there. Towsley was grateful for her departure, but suspicious of its object. Like most others of his class he hated water, save in summer when he could go swimming. However, he was not a boy who went half-way to meet trouble.
She seemed to him, at first, some fellow newsboy, strangely transformed. Then his ideas righted themselves, and he inquired, respectfully: "Were you calling me, Miss Armacost?" "No, you darling. I was just looking at you." Abashed, Towsley dug his head into the pillow and drew the covers over his face. "I've brought you a nice suit of clothes to put on in the morning.
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