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"Peggy," she said at length, "I'm I'm the least bit frightened." Her chum felt a slight shiver run through the girl as she pressed against her. "Frightened, girlie? Frightened of what?" "I don't just know. That's what makes it feel so bad. I guess it's the silence, the sense of all that loneliness out beyond there that upsets me.
"You don't what? oh, I remember," returned Mr. Jack, a quick change coming to his face. "Yes, the sundial, you know, where my Lady of the Roses lives." "Jack, what is a sundial?" broke in Jill eagerly. Jack turned, as if in relief. "Hullo, girlie, you there? and so still all this time? Ask David. He'll tell you what a sundial is. Suppose, anyhow, that you two go out on the piazza now.
So I came to see. What is the trouble, dear?" "Oh, to-morrow is my graduation day and I think I am sorry to leave school," said the girl. "I love these dear little beads which I have under the pillow, mother. Have you had them long? I never saw them before." "Many, many years, girlie. Your father gave them to me and how hard he worked to earn them! I love every little bead on the string.
"Just a minute, girlie, I'm interrupted." She turned to look at Bob again, and with a haughty toss of her rather startling yellow curls raised her eyebrows in a supercilious glance of interrogation. "What's your business?" "That's my business. I want to see Mr. Trubus and not you." "Well, nix on the sarcasm. He's too busy to be disturbed by every book agent and insurance peddler in town.
When almost upon her, his eyes caught first the white strip of apron beneath her dark cape, and then the dim little face above bending forward for a greeting. "Well," he said, in a low tone, "did you think I was never coming, girlie?" She leaned against him with a contented sigh. "You have come, Tom, and that's all I care about."
"And of course you know about the raids on the Martian borium mines by pirates armed with modern weapons. In the fights, some of the pirates' weapons were captured. They bore the ordnance marks of the terrestrial government." "I'm way ahead of you, girlie!" Sime conceded. "Certain financial interests would like to see a war.
They'd lay down 'n' ramble till they dropped if I lets 'em. They liked it fine! "'I'll send Pixley around to-morrow, says Banks. 'I want you to teach her the jockey's crouch when she's on her horse. "Next mawnin' I'm oilin' up the dingus when a chicken pokes her little head out the back door of the livery-stable. "'Hello, kid, she says to me. "'Hello, girlie, I says back.
A girl who does not live up to the best she knows can well be called a coward. Good night, dear, I am glad there is a girlie who loves me." Then with a good-night kiss she was gone gone, as Julia knew, to be more than ever lonely for her own little girl. For a long time Julia stood looking at the dress, and the slippers, and the stockings. Mrs.
"My brave girlie!" was all he said, as his eyes moistened suspiciously and his hand lingered in its caress upon her soft cheek. "It's from Billings, you know." "Yes, Jack; go on." And then he read to her: "FORT HAYS, KANSAS, June 6, '76. "DEAR TRUSCOTT, Stannard showed me your letter and bade me answer it.
She felt that she had been weighed in the balance and found wanting. The Princess never would have stooped to treat a guest as she had treated Girlie. Her standard of hospitality was too high to allow such a breach of hospitality. Mary had carried her point, but she felt that if Lloyd knew how she had played stork, she would consider her ill-bred. The thought worried her for days.
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