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Updated: May 16, 2025
"I guess if you were in my boat, with no mother to do things for, you would be glad enough to give up a thing like that. What do you care what they say?" "I don't," declared Bill, "only they always give people the impression that I am afraid. And I am not." "Of course you are not!" exclaimed Ernest. "That bores me awf'ly! Let's get my little boat out.
I mean Major Grover has been telling Mamma and me about going up in a in a diggible balloon. It was awf'ly interesting. Wasn't it, Mamma?" Her mother laughingly agreed that it was. Jed, whose hands were full, deposited his burden upon another packing case. The said burden consisted of no less than three motor car cranks. Grover regarded them with surprise.
'We'n you're back's at the wall, you do the best you can, don't you? began the clerk. 'I s'y that, because I 'appen to know there's a prejudice against it; it's considered vulgar, awf'ly vulgar. He unrolled the handkerchief and showed a four-ounce jar. 'This 'ere's vitriol, this is, said he. The captain stared upon him with a whitening face. 'This is the stuff! he pursued, holding it up.
Indeed, Yeere was rapidly beginning to forget what he had been. One of his own rank and file put the matter brutally when he asked Yeere, in reference to nothing, 'And who has been making you a Member of Council, lately? You carry the side of half-a-dozen of 'em. 'I I'm awf'ly sorry. I didn't mean it, you know, said Yeere apologetically.
"Something about you 'twas, Uncle Jed." Still Jed did not reply. His silence was not deliberate; he had been so absorbed in his own pessimistic musings that he had not heard the question, that was all. Barbara tried again. "She told me she guessed you had been thinking AWF'LY hard about something this time, else you wouldn't have so many eccen-tricks to-day." Silence yet.
You you are unspeakable when you get in these moods." "There that's just you in an argument. I'm not in a mood at all. Now, look the dog loves him with simple, unquestioning devotion that fairly brings tears to one's eyes " "Yes," she said. "And he why, he's as cold and stern " "He isn't. He isn't, Holly. You are awf'ly unfair." "No, I'm not. I am simply a liberal observer.
"My dear Wilton, what is the use of Mrs. Sherborne, and the Clays, and all that lot working over you for four years to make an Englishman out of you, if the very first time you're rattled you go back to the vernacular?" "I'm through with Mrs. Sherborne and the rest of the crowd. America's good enough for me. What ought I to have said? 'Please, or 'thanks awf'ly or how?"
I'll get a rise soon married man, you know! Responsibilities, you know! Expenses!" "Mother's starting us with every kind of saucepan and broom and brush you can think of." "Bless her!" "Osborn, it will be an awf'ly smart flat." "It will, with you in it." "No, but really. Everyone will admire it. I mean everyone to admire. We'll have some little dinner-parties, won't we?" "Will we, Cook?"
THEN it may be very, very dangerous. There are a great many things safe and proper for married people that might be awf'ly imprudent for a young girl. Don't you agree, Miss Vertrees?" "I don't know," returned the frank Mary. "Do you mean that you intend to remain a friend of Mr. Lamhorn's, but disapprove of Miss Sheridan's doing so?"
I heard Mamma crying last night, after she thought I was asleep. And I know she was crying about Uncle Charlie. She cried when they took him away, you know, and now she cries when he's coming home again. She cried awf'ly when they took him away." "Oh, she did, eh?" "Yes. He used to live with Mamma and me at our house in Middleford.
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