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You can’t be sick before dinner, because I’ve been moving all the cards around so as to get Betty next to you, and I could never get them back as they were before if you gave out at the last minute." "I don’t know what ails me. Do I look seedy?" "You look sort of knocked out, that’s all," said Burnett. "Perhaps, though, it was just the having to talk to my cousin Maude so long.
"Yes, wasn't it the strangest thing. I shouldn't have thought he'd have had time However, you told me not to, so I won't " "Who did you talk to?" "I talked to Miss Burnett most of the time. I tried to cheer her up. No one else paid the least attention to her." "She's a very stupid person, it seems to me," Mrs. Sampson murmured. "But of course I know her very slightly." "Stupid!"
On the contrary, I shall set the cold facts out as neatly as the pickets on the fence. And in evidence thereof, I open the ball by telling you frankly that they both look fierce. If they had looked less awful, and Burnett had had more lime in his bones, we might have escaped the Powers That Be by simply admitting a sprained ankle and carefully concealing everything else.
He also told Constable that when Linnell and Burnett, his fellow- students in London, were talking about art, he always contrived to get as close to them as he could to hear all they said, "for," said he, "they know a great deal, and I know very little." This was said with perfect sincerity, for Wilkie was habitually modest.
It was exceedingly comical, though, and it served its purpose. Jefferson has had the character of Pangloss in his repertory for almost forty years. He first acted it in New York as long ago as 1857, at Laura Keene's theatre, when that beautiful woman played Cicely and when Duberly was represented by the lamented James G. Burnett.
Jack stood by the chimney-piece, his hands upraised to rest upon its lofty shelf, his head dropped forward, and his eyes fixed on the empty blackness below. "I wonder," he said at last, "I wonder what will become of me if—if—" He stopped. Burnett didn’t speak. "I wonder if she thinks of me as a boy," the young man continued.
"If I were you I should coax my father to let me go." "Papa knows best. I am very fond of the Rectory," said Lady Alice, blushing at being so publicly addressed. "And you understand the beauty of obedience," said Errington, with grave approval. "Now, if you intend to see the whole 'fun of the fair," said Mrs. Burnett, "you had better be going, young people.
"I’ll tell you what," said Aunt Mary, in the midst of the revel, "if this is what it means in papers when it speaks of high livin’, I don’t blame ’em for bein’ willin’ to die of it young. One week like this is worth ten years with Lucinda. Twenty. A whole life." "Say, Jack," said Burnett in an undertone, "let’s have Lucinda come to town next and see the effect on her."
His own regiment, he declared, was stanch to the backbone, and nothing would make them swerve from their duty. Burnett said the same of his cavalry; and declared that to a man they were ready to follow him to the death. Reginald, however, was not convinced; and the very next day Buxsoo brought him intelligence which confirmed his suspicions.
Fawcett, chairman, served as Reception Committee; its treasurer, Miss Bertha Mason, expended the large fund subscribed for the use of the convention; the Press Committee managed the newspapers through Miss Compton Burnett; Mrs. Anstruther, Rutland House, Portland Gardens, had the exacting but pleasant duties of chairman of the Hospitality Committee.
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