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You will like him when you know him." "I can't bear fine folks." "They are anything but fine!" cried Babie indignantly. "They can't help it. That way of Lord Fordham's, high-breeding I suppose you call it, just makes me wild. I hate it!" "Poor Ellie. You'll have to get over it, for Essie's sake." "No, I shan't. It is really losing her, as much as Jessie " "Jessie looks worn." "No wonder.
Unless something else was wanted from it, so as to put Babie in the wrong, Janet saw no alternative but to secure the book in her own bureau, and watch for a chance of smuggling it back. Thus Babie escaped all interrogation, but she did not release the captive davenport, and indeed she soon forgot all about it in her absorption in Swiss letters.
She called, and the tramp of the boots of youth began to descend on her, with shouts of "All right!" and downstairs flowed the troop, beginning with Jock, and ending with Armine and Babie, each with some breathless exclamation, all jumbled together Jock. "Oh, mother! Stunning! Lots of bats fast asleep." Johnny. "Rats! rats!" Rob. "A billiard-table." Joe.
Poor Bobus has more stuff in him than a dozen of him!" "He is a real, honest, good fellow," said Babie. "I'm sorry for Bobus, but I've known Cecil almost all my life, and I can't have him abused.
There there, take the sign-manual, and away with you and this young fellow. I wonder Steenie and Babie Charles have not broken in on us before now."
"Real kindness," said Caroline; "but remember, children, all of you, that Elfie is altogether one of us, on perfectly equal terms, so don't let any difference be made now or ever." "Shall I have a great many more lessons, mother?" asked Babie. "Don't be as silly as Essie, Babie," said Janet.
After luncheon and a good rest on the wooden bench outside the door, they began to stroll towards the Daubensee, along a path between desolate boulders, without vegetation, except a small kind of monkshood. "I call this dreary," said the mother. "We don't seem to get a bit nearer the lake. I shall go home and write to Babie." "I'll come back with you," said Johnny.
"I'm afraid Babie likes fine words," said her mother; "but our museum is a great amusement to us Londoners."
So much Mother Carey and Babie heard before they could remove themselves from the scene, which they felt ought to be a tete-a-tete. They shut the lovers in. Babie said, "Undine has found a heart, at least," and then they began to piece out the story by conjecture, and they then discovered how little they had really learnt about Janet.
So far from picking up ideas from it there, Babie, in the actual sight of Mount Hermon's white crown, had begged not to be put in mind of such nonsense, and had never recurred to it; but the wells of fancy had never been dried, and the young people were happily putting together their bits of journal, their bits of history, the description of the great amphitheatre, a poem of Babie's on St.
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