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She was wild with joy, and went about all the day, after her father's decision was announced, making every species of insane preparation for the canoe voyage, clasping her hands, and exclaiming, "Oh! what fun!" while her bright eyes sparkled to such an extent that the sailors fairly laughed in her face when they looked at her. Preparations were soon made.
He always has the gout if he walks or stands much at a ball. He has been sitting up, and standing up, and supping. He has gone home to the gout and the headache, and for my sake. Shall I make fun of the old boy? no, not for Venice!" "How do you mean that he has been doing it for your sake?" Foker asked, looking rather alarmed. "Boy! canst thou keep a secret if I impart it to thee?"
"I stick to my bond, I dress and talk and eat and go about- " Her voice dropped; she stared absently at the table. "But " the doctor prompted. "But that's just it but I'm so UNHAPPY all the time!" Rachael confessed. "We all seem like a lot of puppets, to me like Bander- log! What are we all going round and round in circles for, and who gets any fun out of it?
"Well, don't go digging any more gold mines," warned Grandpa Martin, with a laugh. "All the fun of camping will be spoiled if you get into that sort of trouble again." "We won't," promised Janet, and Teddy nodded his head to show that he, too, would at least try to be good.
Well, in the couple of weeks that I hung aroun' there he coached me along till I could throw a knife as good as he could. He thought it was great sport, teaching me to throw a knife so good, that a way. "Since I left down there I've sort of practiced that knife-throwing business now and then, just for fun. Anyways I thought it was just for fun.
Are you an orphan?" Pearl shook her head. James continued: "We're waiting here until I get bigger and mother gets enough money and then we're going back. It's lovely to be going back. This isn't the real Purple Springs we just called it that for fun, and because we love the name. It makes us happier when we say it. It reminds us. Mother will tell you if you live with us."
'Only think, my dears, what frightful, sly, naughty tricks to be guilty of! And from practising these, which she said there was no harm in, and she only did them in play, and for a bit of fun, at last she came, by degrees, to be guilty of greater.
Wouldn't even hear of any compensation for the use of the vessel. Said he expected to get his money's worth in the fun he'd have." "He seems to have a sportsmanlike spirit, all right," commented Drew, with a smile. "He surely has," confirmed the captain. "I think you'll like him when you come to know him." "How old is he?" "About your own age I should judge.
Perhaps her husband meant nothing by the fashion in which he talked of marriage and the condition of a married man, but she would rather have not heard him talk so. Moreover, she was aware that in the gentlest possible fashion Mrs. Lorraine was making fun of her companion, and exposing him to small and graceful shafts of ridicule; while he seemed, on the whole, to enjoy these attacks.
In those days we had much fun skating; Father had a curious pair of old skates that he fastened on a pair of shoes so that they would not come off. These shoes he tucked, skates and all, under his arm and we were off. He would slip off his "Congress" shoes and slip on the shoes with skates attached and start over the ice, his dog running by his side.
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