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He had been "Jimmie" at home but once at school he had signed himself, in the full glory of his name, J. Darnton Darner, perhaps to do honor to his grandfather, after whom he had been named. Thereafter "Darn" was the only name that he was known by outside of the classroom and his own home.
Darner had come to take Jerry away and was even then in the house finally drew them as a magnet, their eyes also directed towards Sultana until they stumbled through the door. Jerry saw Darn Darner's father sitting by the living-room window and came to a stop. Mr. Darner was a dour, heavy-set man with a coarse, bristling gray beard. He glared at Whiteface through thick glasses.
Unfortunately for her art, she was married at nineteen to John Darner, eldest son of Lord Milton, a fop and spendthrift, who had run through a large fortune. He committed suicide nine years after his marriage. It is said that Harrington, in Miss Burney's novel of "Cecilia," was drawn from John Damer, and that his wardrobe was sold for $75,000 about half its original cost! Mrs.
Yesterday it poured in torrents all day. None of us could get out of the house, so while Miss Araminta darned my stockings, which hadn't been touched since I came to Twickenham Town, I read aloud to the whole bunch in the library and we had a very nice time. Miss Araminta has tried to teach me to darn since I have been here, but she has not succeeded in doing it! I will never be a darner.
"An' his name ain't Jerry Elbow," cried Danny. "It's Gary L. Bowe." "An' the el'funt knew him in a whole crowd of people," Chris added, "an' picked him up with its trunk." "The people thought the elephant was mad at first," said Darn Darner, who had approached as close as he could get to the clown. "The el'funt picked him up in its trunk?" gasped Celia Jane, her eyes growing bigger and bigger.
"I ain't never seen a circus." "No more have I," replied Danny. "Can't you 'maginary something?" asked Celia Jane. "We could ''maginary things'," interposed Nora, "but they might not be in a circus." "There's more'n one circus picture up," said Jerry. "Darn Darner said there was one at Jenkins' corner and one on Jeffreys' barn. P'raps they'll tell us what's in a circus." "Of course," said Danny.
Angeline had on a black silk gown as shiny as the freshly polished stove she was leaving in her kitchen a gown which testified from its voluminous hem to the soft yellow net at the throat that Angeline was as neat a mender and darner as could be found in Suffolk county. A black silk bonnet snuggled close to her head, from under its brim peeping a single pink rose.
But it appears that the Khalifa only required the advice of that wily councillor, for he did not reduce the number of Dervishes in the small forts along the line of the Atbara Ed Darner, Adarama, Asubri, El Fasher and after a short visit and a long consultation Osman Digna returned to his post at Adarama.
You're all going to stay here with your mother." "You talk big," grumbled Mr. Darner. "Now to come down to brass tacks. Who's " "As long as I have any money, Mr. County Overseer," said Whiteface, "or as long as I have the power to make any, the Mullarkey household will not be broken up."
Chris was trying to crack an old whip which he and Danny had made by braiding three strands of leather, with a "cracker" at the end, and Celia Jane was dancing gracefully about the ring, her tail switching and her mane blowing, when the unexpected voice of Darn Darner from the alley brought the circus to a sudden halt. "Hullo!
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