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'I don't think so, said Gillian. 'We don't teach on Sundays, unless some regular person fails. Mamma likes to have us all at home to do our Sunday work with her. 'Alas, I am not mamma! Nor could I give you the time. 'I have brought the books to go on with Val and Ferg. I always do some of their work with them, and I am sure mamma would not wish them to be turned over to a stranger.
But, you see, Ferguson is so exasperating that he disturbs my equilibrium, and then I have to disturb his, that we may continue in brotherly companionship. He was just saying that the sun was no brighter than the stars." "No more it is, I suppose," said unconscious Hildegarde, "if you are only near enough to one, or far enough from the other. Shall I brush you, too, Mr. Ferg I beg your pardon, Mr.
'And he says I may get all the specimens I like at Rocca Marina, shouted Fergus. 'Ivory brushes, and such a ring -sparkling up to the ceiling! added Valetta. 'But, Val, Ferg, whom did you say? demanded the elders, coming within the shadow of the copper beeches. 'Aunt Ada, said Valetta; 'there's a great A engraved on all those dear, lovely bottles, and -oh, they smell! 'Aunt Ada!
Look, Ferg, you old ape! Ever see anything like that?" Ferguson, who was of a cooler temperament, replied without enthusiasm, maintaining that there had been, in the history of womankind, maidens as beautiful as Miss Grahame, or even more so. Becoming warm in the discussion, the two grappled, and rolled over and over at Hildegarde's feet. She gave a little scream, and then laughed.
Compton took unusual care with his shots, and dropped three successive arrows in that bush. When "Ferg" saw this he took the bow seriously. The timber wolf is seldom met in our clime, and so for this reason he has been spared the fate common to all fearsome beasts that cross the trail of an archer.
The dry-eyed ones have to depend on signed letters, false hair, sympathy, the kangaroo walk, cowhide whips, ability to cook, sentimental juries, conversational powers, silk underskirts, ancestry, rouge, anonymous letters, violet sachet powders, witnesses, revolvers, pneumatic forms, carbolic acid, moonlight, cold cream and the evening newspapers." "You are outrageous, Ferg," I said.
Scrumptious! commencing a war-dance at the same moment. 'What is it? Has David asked you? demanded both his sisters at the same moment. 'Hurrah! Yes, it is from him. "My dear Fergus, I hope" -hurrah "Harry, mm -mm -mm -brothers, 20th mm -mm. Your affectionate cousin, David Merrifield." 'Let me read it to you, volunteered Gillian. 'Wouldn't you like it? 'How can you be so silly, Ferg?
Often upon reaching the open air he would sniff the east wind and say lugubriously, "This is the kind of day that brings out the freckles on your Uncle Ferg." He was one of the best dressed men in the school, and especially finicky about his collars and ties, was, indeed, one of the earliest to purchase linen. But, like Burton, he never did.
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