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"I was a bit puzzled at the dock, Bryce," he explained as they shook hands, "but decided to play safe and then follow you to your office. What's up? Have you killed somebody, and are the detectives on your trail? If so, 'fess up and I'll assume the responsibility for your crime, just to show you how grateful I am for that hundred."
"You have been gone three years, and that makes all the difference in the world in a child her age," said Mrs. Horton. "That may be so," conceded Robert. Then he tumbled headlong into his story, and Mrs. Horton looked at Mrs. Hargrave with an amused smile. "Well, mother, I want to 'fess up to something. I hope you will not pass judgment until I have told you the whole story.
She was more astonished still when, next minute, Rosa, who was one of the housemaids, came in with a basket of clean clothes, wearing her coral ear-rings as usual. I'm sure I don't know what to do with such a child, she said, in despair. 'What in the world made you tell me you took those things, Topsy? 'Why, missis said I must 'fess.
She made room for him on the ample seat; he sprang in, and bent to kiss her before sitting down beside her. "Now, I call this luck. This is as good as a confessional, small and dark, and 'fess I've got to, Aunt Meda, or there'll be trouble for somebody at Campo."
As the clock struck nine and Jo proposed bed, Meg suddenly left her chair and, taking Beth's stool, leaned her elbows on her mother's knee, saying bravely... "Marmee, I want to 'fess'." "I thought so. What is it, dear?" "Shall I go away?" asked Jo discreetly. "Of course not. Don't I always tell you everything?
A bend, a border charged with mitres; over all a label Archbishop Scrope. 11. Three water bougets Roos. 12. A saltire Neville. 13. On a cross five lions passant guardant City of York. 14. Three fusils in fess Montague. 15. A fess between six cross crosslets Beauchamp. 16. A lion rampant Percy. 17.
It takes some time to tell it, but it happened in a jiffy, in fess In a tenth of a second. I wasn't expectin' it myself. We're awful close together. His left glove ain't a foot from my jaw, an' my left glove ain't a foot from his. He feints with his right, an' I know it's a feint, an' just hunch up my left shoulder a bit an' feint with my right.
When we get to Wellington, you are the first person we want to have visit us, and I want to engage you right now. What you tell me of Andy McLean's success at Harvard does not astonish me. I was sure he would do well. I shall not be astonished either when you tell me some other news about Andy. Come on now, Nance, and 'fess up. Good-bye.
'Here's this jade of a sister of yours asking me why I don't go home to The Bothie, when I choose to stop and water here. 'What'll ye tak', my lord? Letty, fess the brandy. 'Oh! damn your brandy! Bring me a gill of good Glendronach. 'Rin, Letty. His lordship's cauld. I canna rise to offer ye the airm-cheir, my lord. 'I can get one for myself, thank heaven!
It must be very interesting, because you haven't said a word to me since we left that lazy crowd back there. 'Fess up!" Betty flushed faintly. "You should never ask what a person thinks about on a beautiful summer, day when she is wandering through the woodland with with " "Whom?" Allen prompted softly. "Go on, Betty, finish the story." "Can't," she smiled up at him roguishly.
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