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They seated themselves together upon the sofa, and Hope leaned her head upon her aunty's shoulder and wept with utter surprise, grief, indignation, and weariness. The next morning Amy Waring came to Hope Wayne radiant with the prospect of her Aunt Martha's restoration to the world. Hope shook her hand warmly, and looked into her friend's illuminated face.
"I like it immensely, and do believe it now only it rather takes my breath away to think of Aunty's going, when she never would hear of it before." "She doesn't like the plan very well now and consents to go only on one condition." "What is that?" asked Rose, trying to free her hands, for a look at Charlie made her suspect what was coming. "That you go with us."
Hoppin says to you, 'Who made you? you must answer, 'God, who made everything on earth and in heaven' you understand?" "Yes, ma'am," and repeated the phrase until aunty thought him ripe to appear at Sunday-school, which he did on the following Sunday. You may imagine aunty's consternation when Dr.
"Might as well risk it again, and if I can't run the gate well, swappin' a few more plain words with Aunty'll relieve my feelin's some, anyway." With that I marches up bold and presses the button. "Say," says I to the maid, "don't tell me Aunty's gone out since I left!" Selma shakes her head solemn as her mighty Swedish intellect struggles to surround the situation.
"There's one more who needs you if you attend to him properly, it will be enough." "I don't see how they're going to get Aunty's silk gown and a ring like mine and a haircloth parlour suit and publish a book with less than two hundred dollars, do you?" "Hardly Joe says that he gave Hepsey ten dollars. There's a great discussion about the spending of it." "I didn't know I feel guilty."
"Did you hear that, Zenobia? Torchy, you young rascal, come in here and explain yourself!" "Torchy!" gasps Aunty. "Did did you say Torchy?" "Anybody callin' for me?" says I, steppin' into the room with a grin on. And to watch that stary look settle in Aunty's eyes, and see the purple tint spread back to her ears, was worth standin' for all the rough deals I'd ever had from her.
"Who is Nelson?" asked Beata. "Aunty's maid. She cried when I came away, and she said it was because she was so sorry for me. It wouldn't be the same as there, she said. I shouldn't be thought as much of with two brothers, and Nelson knew that my mamma was dreadfully strict. I daresay she'd be still more sorry for me if she knew " Rosy stopped short. "Why don't you go on?" said Beata.
"In other words," said Steingall, "you were deliberately reared to fill a higher social station, and then, for no assignable reason, save a whim, compelled to sink to a much lower level?" "I do not know. I never disputed aunty's right to do what she thought best." "Well, well, it is odd. Do you ever entertain any visitors?" "None whatever. We have no acquaintances, and live very quietly."
Morgan had sprained her ankle so severely that she could not leave her room. "And oh, Anne dear," wrote Priscilla, "I'm so sorry, but I'm afraid we won't get up to Green Gables at all now, for by the time Aunty's ankle is well she will have to go back to Toronto. She has to be there by a certain date."
Consequently she lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing. No shilly-shally in Kate. She saw with the eyeball of an eagle what was indispensable. Some little money perhaps to pay the first toll-bar of life: so, out of four shillings in Aunty's purse, she took one. You can't say that was exorbitant.
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