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Henry said, taking hold of her hand and pressing it. "I suppose," he whispered, "I ought to give you a ring or something. Chaps always do that!..." Mary shook her head. "I don't think mother would like that," she replied. "Well, anyhow, we're engaged, aren't we?" "Oh, of course, Quinny!" "It's most awf'lly nice of you to have me, Mary!" "But I like you!" "Do you really?"
I wants you to and de puppies'll need you and auntie, and " Dorman gathered himself for the last, crushing argument "and Uncle Redmon' wants you awf'lly!" Beatrice took a sip of ice water, for she needed it. "Why, Be'trice? Gran-mama'll let you go, guess. Can't she go, gran'mama?" It was Mrs. Lansell's turn to test the exquisite torture of that prickly chill along the spine.
And when they all pressed forward with their birthday gifts and to wish Clary many happy returns of the day, Mark, his ears as red as his hair, whispered under his breath: "I was just awf'lly sorry, Clary! An' I'll never, never forget that little girls and women are different from us rough boys!" And Mark never will; nor will any of the Carew boys. Kurus: The King of the Cannibal Islands. By
He told me so, and they hope it'll be a boy because Jim Rattenbury that's Tom Yeo's mate in the boat ... his wife had a daughter last month, and they all think it would be awf'lly nice if Tom's son were to grow up and marry Jim's daughter, and I think it would, and of course it would, wouldn't it?" "Would it?" said Henry. "Of course it would.
Perhaps, in the summer, Gilbert and Roger will come, too!" Henry thought that that would be awf'lly jolly.... They turned down the village street and left Peggy at the foot of it while they went down the slope leading on to the beach where the trawlers were now being hauled up by the aid of hand winches. Henry could see Mary and Ninian in the group of fishermen who were working the nearest winch.
"Look at the pretty " She hesitated, groping vaguely for some object to which she might conscientiously apply the adjective. "Mud," suggested Beatrice promptly "Look at the wheels, Dorman; they're playing patty-cake. See, now they say, 'Roll 'em, and roll 'em, and now, 'Toss in the oven to bake! And now " "Auntie, I want to get out an' play patty-cake, like de wheels. I want to awf'lly!"
Is that the kind of a conscience you have, Mr. Morse?" "If I were you my conscience would tell me that I couldn't go and leave my guests," he answered. She raked him with a glance of merry derision. "Oh, I know how yours works. I wouldn't have it for anything. It's an awf'lly bossy one. It's sending you out to the Barrens with Win Beresford just because he's your friend." "Not quite.
I am awf'lly tired." Little globes of gladness welled up in her eyes. "Everybody's so good to me, Billie. I didn't know folks were so kind. I can't think what I can ever do to pay them back." "I'll tell you how. You be good to yourself, honey," he told her with a sudden wave of emotion as he caught and held her tight in his arms. "You quit takin' chances with blizzards an' crazy gunmen an' "
He had never spent a holiday away from home, and he knew that his father liked him to return to Ireland whenever he had the chance to do so. He himself enjoyed going home, but suddenly, when Henry had finished speaking, he felt a strong desire to accept this invitation. "I'll have to ask my father," he replied, and added, "I'd like to, Ninian. Thanks awf'lly!"
She climbed on to the bars of a gate, and pointed, and he climbed on to the bars beside her, and saw the English Channel, shining like a sheet of silver in the setting sun. "Can you see the trawlers coming home?" she said. "Out there! Do you see? Those are our boats ... the Boveyhayne boats. That one with the brown sails is Tom Yeo's boat. He's awf'lly nice and his wife's going to have a baby.
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