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"You didn't go to Mrs. Deford's party Wednesday." Mary Cary turned to the child beside her. "Who told you I didn't go to Mrs. Deford's party Wednesday?" "Susie heard Miss Lizzie Bettie Pryor and Miss Puss Jenkins talkin' about it in the store yesterday. Susie says they think she's just air, and the way they lay out people when they're lookin' at hats frightens her.
But I was there! and I besought him and that night he swore to me " Cary threw out his arm with a cry. "Stop, stop! I take God to witness that I never thought of this!" She went on, unheeding.
Are you on your way to Charlottesville? I told him I would go to Red Fields, upon which he said adieu and turned his horse. A little later he and his boy passed me, riding in a cloud of dust and under black skies." The dancing master raised a glass of water that was upon the table and moistened his lips. "This, Mr. Cary, is all my aid.
However, he went on his way to the eastward; which if he had not done, my story had had a very different ending. About mid-day a canoe, the first which they had seen, came staggering toward them under a huge three-cornered sail. As it came near, they could see two Indians on board. "Metal floats in these seas, you see," quoth Cary. "There's a fresh marvel, for you, Frank."
They say the Mammoth's jealous, and that your husband and Colonel Burr correspond in cipher. Is that so?" "I don't know," said Jacqueline. "I shall not try to convert him. I would have a man loyal to his beliefs so would you, Unity! Suppose yourself of another party would you change Fairfax Cary? You would wish him to stay always the Federalist that he is! So with me. I love my great Republican."
Milton alludes to the passage in his sonnet to Henry Lawes: "Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire, That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn or story. "He was lively and agreeable in his manners," observes Mr. Cary, "and delighted in poetry, music, and dancing.
"I think my match might be found," said Flora, rather drily. "For one thing, Cary, you must remember I have had nothing to do with other girls except Annas Keith. Father and Angus have been my only companions; and a girl who has neither mother nor sisters perhaps gets out of girls' ways in some respects." "But you are not the only `womankind, as Father calls it, in the house?" said I.
His title as duke was Duke of Albany; and as this was the highest of his nominal honors, he was generally known under that designation while he remained in Scotland. When his father left him, in order to go to England and take possession of his new throne, he appointed a governess to take charge of the health and education of the young duke. This governess was Lady Cary.
What does matter is that I will not have the Rajah made a butt for the Station's witticisms. You can say what you like about me I don't care in the least but you will leave him alone." "Dear me, what are you so annoyed about?" Mrs. Cary inquired, with irritating solicitude. "How was I to know you were seriously contemplating the Rajah's conversion? I'm sure it's very nice of you.
"No," she responded, "but I want to buy a grand present for Aunt Martha and Uncle Enos, and something for Amanda Cary. I should like to take Amos and the Starkweather children something, but I fear there will not be enough money." Mrs. Freeman smiled at Anne's thought for her playmates. "You can perhaps make something for some of your little friends.
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