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I wish she were my aunt. I have aunts I could trade for her." At the door Allen paused. Marian, running on blithely, gave him no opportunity to make his adieux. "Oh, aren't you going our way?" she demanded, in a tone of invitation.
They spoke also of Foxholes, of Letty and Grizel, of Sedley and Bearwood, and Dick Ashbridge at whose name Prissy laughed saucily, and Fiddy bit her lips and frowned as fiercely as she was able. With what penetration Mistress Betty read their connections, and how blithely and tenderly she commented upon them!
I hardly know to this minute what ailed the thing, but it suddenly started off blithely, and this was the only exhibition of sulkiness it gave, for it scarcely missed a stroke in our Midland trip of eight hundred miles mostly in the rain. Nevertheless, the little circumstance, just at the outset of our tour, was depressing. We stopped for lunch at the Red Lion in the old town of St.
He descended the stairs, filled with a wonderful sense of elation, a buoyancy of spirit which he could not understand. As he walked blithely to his hotel, however, he began to realize how much he had dreaded this interview. He was a free man, after all. The spell was broken.
Blithely they stepped along, and prepared to enter the palace with a flourish of trumpets, as it were, when King's music stopped suddenly. "Great Golliwogs!" he cried. "Look at that!" "Look at what?" said Tom, who was absorbed in the grand march. But he looked, and they all looked, and five angry exclamations sounded as they saw only the ruins of the beloved Sandringham Palace.
Now Peter could never resist a game, and he answered blithely in his own voice, 'I have. 'And another name? 'Ay, ay. 'Vegetable? asked Hook. 'No. 'Mineral? 'No. 'Animal? 'Yes. 'Man? 'No! This answer rang out scornfully. 'Boy? 'Yes. 'Ordinary boy? 'No! 'Wonderful boy? To Wendy's pain the answer that rang out this time was 'Yes. 'Are you in England? 'No. 'Are you here? 'Yes.
"Oh, that isn't much," said Tom, blithely. "With decent care you will soon he well. It is plain that you are a gentleman no peon. Yonder, some distance, is a house where I think you are very likely to be well taken care of. Don Luis Montez " Despite the hectic flush in the cheeks, the stranger's face paled visibly. Tom, always observant, noted this. "Oh, I see," Reade went on, calmly.
I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it. Now go and answer your note, and let me finish this splendid story." So Meg went away to 'accept with thanks', look over her dress, and sing blithely as she did up her one real lace frill, while Jo finished her story, her four apples, and had a game of romps with Scrabble.
Accordingly they set forth, Robin in his little butcher's cart, behind the lean mare, and the Sheriff mounted on a horse. Out of Nottingham town, through gates open wide, they proceeded, and took the hill road leading through Sherwood Forest. And as they went on and plunged deeper among the trees, Robin whistled blithely and sang snatches of tunes.
The leaves were green and the small birds sang blithely, just as they used to do in fair Sherwood when Robin Hood roamed the woodland shades with a free heart and a light heel. All the sweetness of the time and the joyousness of everything brought back to Robin's mind his forest life, so that a great longing came upon him to behold the woodlands once more.
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