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"Yes," Mary said, but there was no enthusiasm in her tone. The husband went on speaking with no apparent heed of his wife's indifference. "You pack up what things you need, girlie," he directed. "Just a few because they sell clothes in Paris. And they are some class, believe me! And meantime, I'll run down to Dad's office, and have him back here in half an hour. You will be all ready, won't you?"
Sören put the tethering-rope round his neck and pulled with all his might, it did give way; but at the same time something seemed to break inside him. Everything went dark, and a big black hole appeared in the earth. Maren gazed at him with terror. "Was 't square?" asked she. Sören thought it was square. "And what of Girlie?" asked Maren suddenly. She had disappeared when Sören fainted.
"Why do you mostly have something nice for us to eat on bird-days?" asked Dodo, cuddling into the bend of her uncle's arm. "For two reasons, girlie. When I was a boy, being out of doors made me so hungry that it always seemed a long time between breakfast and dinner. I know that little brains remember best when the stomachs that nourish them are not empty.
It's named the Waldorf and it has woods in it just like outdoors; but I thought you'd be in a hurry to see Star and the Ravine of Happiness and Zeke." "Well, we'll wait," returned Mrs. Evringham vaguely. She was more than doubtful of an invitation to Bel-Air Park even for one night; but Harry must arrange it. "We'll see what father says," she added. "What a pretty locket, my girlie!"
"She'll sleep all the afternoon now, like enough, and wake up feeling a good bit better, though I fear it will be a long time before your girlie feels at home with Nurse Lucy, Miss Mildred, dear!" Sure enough, Hilda did sleep all the afternoon; and the soft summer twilight was closing round the farm-house when she woke with a start from a dream of home.
A moment later, I smiled indeed, when he stepped forward, lifted his hat, and asked with assurance: 'May I walk with you? Are you going anywhere? "'Yes, I am going somewhere, I said, smiling. 'To a meeting place in Adams Street to hear a lecture. "'Oh, I say, girlie, he cried, 'You're jollying. That must be a very dull thing for you, a lecture. "'Sometimes it's funny, I said.
But it always seemed at these moments that Grahamie would providentially rush in to her with some glad story of sport or adventure, and she would snatch him tightly in her arms and say, "No, no, boy of mine, I don't want even a girlie, if I may only keep you."
It was calculated so to blend with the glass of the lens as to be, in appearance, one with it, while it still protected the eyeglass from breakage. "Fortune in it, girlie," he would say, happily, to Cora. "Million dollars, that's all." He had been working on the invisible rim for five years. Familiarity with it had bred contempt in Cora.
"You need another cocktail," suggested Baxter, after sipping one himself and forgetting the need for reserve in his remarks. "You mustn't be a bum sport at a dance like this, Miss Barton." "Oh, Mr. Baxter, I don't dare go home with a breath like cocktails. You know Mary and I sleep together," objected Lorna. "Don't worry about that, little girlie," said Baxter. "She won't mind it to-night."
But after this," she added brightly, "it's just going to be love and laughter. And now, my dear, we must get back the rosy English color in your cheeks, or your young Hiawatha won't know his little white sweetheart. Run away to my spare room, girlie. The orderly will get a man to fetch your box. Then you can change your frock. Leave yesterday behind you forever.
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