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On February 4th Smith-Dorrien was at Lake Chrissie; French had passed through Bethel and the enemy was retiring on Amsterdam. The hundred-mile ends of the drag net were already contracted to a third of that distance, and the game was still known to be within it.
Would you rather sit here by yourself, looking at albums and illustrated books while Mary changes her dress, and cook flies into a temper preparing a proper dinner, and Jane helps to tidy the dining-room, and Maud ransacks the store room, and Elsie polishes up silver, and Chrissie cuts flowers, and I " Ned Talbot threw up his hands in despair. "Mercy! What next? Please stop, Nan.
We had a fine farm, snug house, and good-sized barns, with kind neighbours a-plenty. By the time our two little uns were born we had laid by a neat sum of money. "'It's fer Danny an' Chrissie, to eddicate 'em, says Annie. An' oh, b'ys, I remember the last time she laid any away. I had come back from town, whar I had sold my load of produce, an' I handed her what money I had.
At least I am quite willing if the others are," said Agatha, looking round inquiringly; upon which Nan and Elsie nodded assent, and Chrissie bargained, "Unless I am engaged myself by that time, when, of course, they must be equally divided," a contingency so remote that Lilias congratulated herself on a good morning's work, and felt that so far as pin-cushions were concerned the future held no further anxiety.
"You understand, Tucker," he concluded, as the hapless seaman stood in a cringing attitude before Chrissie, "that you never let my daughter out of your sight. When she goes out you go with her." "Yessir," said Tucker; "and suppose she tells me to go home, what am I to do then?" "You're a fool," said the captain sharply.
He was a firm advocate for importing the manners of the quarter-deck into private life, the only drawback being that he had to leave behind him the language usual in that locality. To this omission he usually ascribed his failures. "Sit down, Chrissie," he commanded; "sit down, Jane. Now, miss, what's all this about?" "I don't like to tell you," said Chrissie, folding her hands in her lap.
"Well, I'm going into the kitchen now; come along, nursie." "'Ere, I say, miss!" remonstrated Tucker, flushing. "I don't know how Susan will like you going in her kitchen," said Chrissie thoughtfully; "however, that's your business."
If we took away our custom " "I mean the really poor. Mrs Evans would not shut up shop for the want of your threepenny-pieces, but the Mission at Sale is always short of funds. If you had a collecting-box, you could send in a subscription at Christmas." "`The Misses Margaret, Elsa, Agatha, and Christabel Rendell four and sixpence halfpenny," quoted Chrissie derisively.
"We've been talking about you ever since, and wondering what you were after." This was fame indeed! The girls shared in the reflected glory of Nan's performance, and only regretted that it had not been witnessed by a larger audience, while Chrissie, in especial, bewailed the absence of her alter ego. "Kitty will never forgive us if she doesn't see you," she declared.
"What is your especial fancy, my love a side-board or a dining-room table? Don't be bashful, pray! Aim at the sky, and you may succeed in hitting the tree. I shouldn't wonder if I rose to a milking-stool, if you asked me nicely." "And I'll work you a kettle-holder, sweet one, as soon as the sale is over, and Chrissie a "
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