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Merrill heard her and met her at the front steps. "Mary Jane! Dear child!" she cried, "what is the matter? Tell mother what has happened!" "My doll! My beautifulest doll!" sobbed Mary Jane, "my Marie Georgianna is all run over!" "Surely not, surely not, Mary Jane," said her mother as she picked up the little girl and sat down, with her on her lap, on the porch steps, "dolls don't get run over."
That's American, and I am an American, you know." "All right, little Liberty. I'll call you Georgianna Washington if you say so, Marrie. That's like putting on airs for Marie. But just as you say," evidently willing to make any concession to have the younger girl accept her own terms. "Wait!
"Ase," he observed irrelevantly when the five Tidditt, Georgianna, Bailey, Bos'n, and himself were at last alone again in the sitting room, "it DON'T pay to tip over a monument, does it not out in public, I mean. You wouldn't want to see me blow up Bunker Hill, would you?" "Blow up Bunker Hill!" repeated Asaph in alarmed amazement. "Godfrey scissors! I believe you're goin' loony.
Thorny, Georgianna, and Billy had separately the pleasure of laughing at Susan in these days. "They should really have a lift, to take the girls up to the lunch room," said Susan to Billy. "Of course they should," said Billy, "and a sink to bring you down again!"
Oh, well, I guess likely I know the why!" He sighed despondently. "I told her never to come here again." "You did? What in the world " "Well, for what I thought was good reasons; all on her account they was. And yet she did come back, and kept comin', even after Ase blabbed the whole thing. However, I s'pose that was just to help Georgianna. Oh, hum! I AM an old fool."
Susan nodded, and Georgianna Lancaster returned at once to her telephoned conversation. "Yes, you did!" said she, satirically, "I believe that! ... Oh, of course you did! ... And I suppose you wrote me a note, too, only I didn't get it.
He had news of importance to communicate and was puffed up in consequence. "The wire's all right again, Georgianna," he said to the housekeeper, who had hurried to the door to meet him. "Fust message just come through. Guess who it's for?" "Stop your foolishness, Gabe Lumley!" ordered Miss Taylor. "Hand over that telegram this minute. Don't you stop to talk! Hand it over!"
George, the first-born, destined to die in his twentieth summer, was eighteen then, Mary Lou sixteen, helpless and feminine, and Alfred, at thirteen, already showed indications of being entirely spoiled. Then came conscientious, gentle little Virginia, ten years old, and finally Georgianna, who was eight.
Captain Cy was surprised. "Sho!" he exclaimed. "You don't say!" "Yes. I think I like teacher next to you. I like Georgianna and Mr. Tidditt and Mr. Bangs, of course, but I like her a little better. Don't you, uncle Cyrus?" The captain changed the subject. He asked her what she should name her doll. The Board of Strategy came in during the forenoon, and the presents had to be shown to them.
Her father's name the Brute's, you know was Blackadder, and a blacker adder don't wriggle its slimy way through filthy slums nowhere supposin' him to be yet unscragged, for he was uncommon hard on his wife that's my Aunt Georgie. Her name was Georgianna. I wonder how it is that people never give people their right names! Well, Mr Aspel, you must know I was nuss to baby.
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