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Good old creature! But she may kill me with kindness. I don't see how I am going to be able to do full justice to her three meals a day." "I hope you will like it as well in school as you do at your boarding-place," ventured Janice, timidly. "Oh, the school? That's going to be pie," laughed Haley. "You know about how it's been run, don't you?"
"What a remarkable countenance Gabriella has!" I then often heard it remarked. "Her features are childish, but her eyes have such a peculiar depth of expression, so wild, and yet so wise." I wish I had a picture of myself taken at this period of my life. I have no doubt I looked older then than I do now. I knew the path which led from the boarding-place of Mr.
On returning to our boarding-place, we were called upon by brother Merrifield, who accompanied us into the fort to address the colored troops. Sister Backus referred to the importance of making themselves intelligent, so that when their rights were established as citizens, they would be prepared to vote understandingly.
Several homes had been offered to her, with a warmth and cordiality which made it difficult to decline their acceptance; but Gertrude, though deeply touched by the kindness thus manifested towards her in her loneliness, preferred to seek a permanent boarding-place, and when the grounds on which she based her decision were understood by her friends, they approved her course. Mrs.
With his income now temporarily fixed at the amount of his wages, he was forced to find a less expensive boarding-place, although at the time he had rented his room he had been quite positive that there could not be a cheaper or more undesirable habitat for man.
Therefore, instead of finding a comfortable boarding-place, which she might well have excused herself for doing at her advanced age of eighty years, she took rooms in a very plain little house in a remote quarter of the city, and went by the street cars daily to the North End, to get her dinner at a restaurant which she had discovered as being clean, and having wholesome food at the very lowest prices.
I suppose," added Walter, hesitating, "I ought to look out for a boarding-place." "What, and leave us?" asked the old lady reproachfully. "But, Colonel Owen, remember that I shall be earning a good salary." "You can find a use for it. It will help make up for some of the losses you have incurred. Shall I say you will accept the post?" "Yes, sir. I will try it, and hope to succeed."
Believe me, it was the only course I could pursue, in that awkward dilemma, without bringing disgrace and detection upon you." As if in answer to the question that was trembling upon Daisy's lips, he continued: "I am stopping at a boarding-place some little distance from here. This is not Baltimore, but a little station some sixty miles from there.
After an hour spent in this entertaining manner, they returned to their boarding-place in time to greet the gentlemen who had come back with glowing accounts of their day's work, or rather pleasure, for they had met with splendid success. Tom's fingers were blistered, but what was that compared to the fun of blue-fishing!
Receiving a good-natured permission, he next started off in search of a quiet, cheap boarding-place. His heart was heavy, and yet he felt thankful to have escaped as he had, for the thought of what might have been his experience if Barney had tried to fulfil his threat sickened him. The rough was as strong as he, and scenes of violence were his delight and daily experience.
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