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Daisy stood quite still after the first glad "Oh!" but her eyes went quickly from one charming object to another, brightening as they looked, till they came to Aunt Jo's merry face; there they stopped as the happy little girl hugged her, saying gratefully: "Oh aunty, it's a splendid new play!
"Aunty and I would have called to see you," she said, "and brought you jelly and other nice things. Who waited on you, had you no nurse?" "But why come here," Gladys demanded, "when you were told to stay in bed till the end of the week. It is frightfully risky." Shiel then explained to her the purport of his visit.
We were in our best clothes clean-shaven gentlemen, well-dressed boys, and one girl, neat and comely in a dark-blue gown of thin stuff with white lace at throat and wrist; and last, and biggest of all, Aunty Boone, in a bright-green lawn with little white dots all over it.
"You must sit by yourself, aunty," said that contriving young lady, "because I must sit by Tom; I've a great deal to say to him."
Run in and see if it's all right; and if there isn't a dinner party on, or a houseful of guests, I'll come. No, I shall wait until you do." Course, she didn't plan it that way; but it gives me about six minutes that was all to the good. "You didn't mind my sidetrackin' the Count, eh?" says I. "It was lovely and perfectly absurd!" says Vee. "You know he bores Aunty to death, and Aunty bores him.
Elsie waited until she grew calm again, and then said gently, "The Bible says, dear aunty, that God 'does not willingly afflict nor grieve the children of men. Perhaps he saw that you loved your friend too well, and would never give your heart to Jesus unless he took him away, and so you could only live with him for a little while in this world.
I used to, but Aunty is so busy now that she says she hasn't time to teach me. Beside, all my books were burned up." "Come, Annie, it is time to go," said Miss Pickens, moving away, with a curt bow to Mrs. Randolph. Annie lingered to kiss her new friend. "I shall pick you some fresh flowers next time we come," she said. "I'll tell you what, Harry," said Mrs.
'Any little kindness moves you to-day; and well it may. 'Yes, aunty, said Aminta, and in relation to the cause of her tears she was the less candid of the two.
It's too awful you don't know how aunty and I feel about it! Why, darling, we want you to go back with us to New York! Sammy " The firm pressure of her aunt's foot against her own stopped her.
"Don't let them affront her with their money; she will fling it in their faces as she did that donkey's dollar. You see to her in your nice, delicate way, Aunty, and give her a lift if she will let you," whispered Captain John in the old lady's ear. "Don't waste your pity, Miss Florence. Ruth reads a newspaper better than any woman I ever knew.
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