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But Margaret was whimsical and witchy as she came upon the two in the small arbour by the lake. "Folks," she said, "let us keep our nice little surprises to ourselves for a while, like miserly creatures. My dear old daddy-boy is fretting and fussing about me, 'dreading the issue, as he told Doctor Ledyard, and behold I'm going to do exactly what my daddykins desires!
They despise you for that, you dear old daddykins, with your high ideals and knightly notions of honour. Oh, how can they be so snobbish and blind! I'll not stay another day under the same roof with such heartless people!" Wiping her eyes, she went slowly down-stairs to look for Travis, but the porch and halls were deserted.
"Where was it today: the prairies, the foothills, or the real fellows behind?" "The canyon, up the river," said Irene, drawing off her sweater. "What's the eats? Gee, I'm hungry. Getting pretty supple, Daddykins, aren't you?" "Yes, an' I'm sorry for it, Miss," said the old rancher. "Not wishin' him any harm, or you neither.
Toland always was sure of her course, and would dimple at him warningly: "Of course it's all right, Daddykins, and we're all going to be happy, and not even think of our naughty old troubles any more!"
The girl drew a great breath of the pure air and was about to dream a new day-dream when the voice of her father brought her to earth. "Can't you find anything that will do for a bandage?" he asked. "Oh you dear Daddykins," she replied, her voice tremulous with self-reproach. "I had forgotten. There was a spell, or something; it just came down upon me in the window.
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