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Ruth Gray dropped the paper of candy she was untying, and turned very pale. She had been too busy playing games to remember that she had the care of any body. "O, you little ducky darling," cried she, seizing Prudy in her arms, "don't you cry, and you shall have a pocket full of candy. You didn't get burnt a mite, did you, honey?" "No'm, I ain't cryin'," sobbed Prudy.
Jane made a disgusted gesture. "You're not listening, Esther! You know there is only one Person who puts brains into dogs!" "But Pickles is such a puppy, Jane. Give him time." "It's not age," gloomily. "It's stupidness. All puppies are stupid, but Pickles is the most abnormously stupid puppy I ever saw." Esther laughed. "Where did you get the word, ducky?" "From the doctor.
Isn't she just ducky in that bathing suit?" Lydia melted visibly and showed a flash of white teeth. "You bet! How's Gwendolyn?" nodding toward the great bisque doll seated in the wonderful doll carriage. "I wish I had a doll like that." "She isn't in it with Florence Dombey," said Kent. "Florence is some old sport, she is. Guess I'd better cut her down."
"Some new-rich person probably," Nancy decided. "Ducky, I have a feeling that the owner of The Viking bought it from the proceeds of pills or headache powders." "Or pork." I am not sure that Nancy and I were justified in our disdain whale-oil has perhaps no greater claim to social distinction than bacon and ham or pills. The church bells were ringing, and I had to go down.
Sylvia had no such fears; her nature was so different from Nealie's, and she rarely troubled about things which were under the surface, and so was spared many worries and much heartache; while Don, Billykins, and Ducky were only tired of the long waiting until their father should come, and they were already beginning to yawn widely because they were so sleepy.
A mere human being would reply: "Why, of course I shall, ducky, every day." But the stage hero is a superior creature. He says: "Dost see yonder star, sweet?"
"Ducks!" repeated the negro, grinning at the queerly dressed children in their round straw hats. "Name o' de Lawd! What do you all want wif ducks?" Lovey Mary explained. "Wouldn't a kitten do jes as well?" he asked kindly. "I want my ducky," whined Tommy, showing signs of returning storm. "I don' see no way 'cept'n' gwine to de mahket. Efen you tek de cah you kin ride plumb down dere."
"Mummy ducky," she said, "I think my head's going. I can't tell whether to wear the white thing or the blue thing. And I feel as if it mattered more than anything. More than anything on earth." Frances considered it Dorothea in her uniform, and the white frock and the blue frock. "It doesn't matter a little bit," she said. "If he could propose to you in that get-up "
There'd be only you, Ducky, my dear, dear Ducky." She caught my hand and held it. "And Anthony " "Anthony would get over it" sharply. "Wouldn't he, Elizabeth? You know he would." "My dear, I don't know." "But I know. If I hadn't been in his life, Mimi Sears would have been, just as Bob Needham would have been in my life if it hadn't been for Anthony.
You're the uneducated 'ireling of a callous aristocracy which 'as sold itself to the 'Ebrew financier. Meantime, Ducky" he ran his finger down a column of assorted paragraphs "you're slakin' your brutal instincks in furious excesses. Shriekin' women an' desolated 'omesteads is what you enjoy, Alf ..., Halloa! What's a smokin' 'ektacomb?" "'Ere! Let's look.
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