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Hearing this, their mother began to weep, but the girls kept on: "It is all our own fault, But do not blame us; 'T will be none the worse for you. When you go in your canoe, Then you need not paddle; We shall carry it along!" And so it was: when their parents went in the canoe, the girls carried it safely on everywhere.
Will inquired. "Oh, always talking about how glad you'll be to get away from us," she explained. "Here we thought we'd been entertaining you so beautifully " "Gee, you have!" cried Roy, propping himself on his elbow and speaking with unaccustomed solemnity. "It's been just great, having you girls here." "It certainly has," added Frank.
"There!" he said, "that's fast, an' you girls are safe if you sit still till I come back." He sprang from the boat, and waded through the shallow water, then ran up on the beach, shouting: "Jock! Jock! Wait a minute!" "Donald! Don't stay long!" cried Rose, and Polly echoed her words, but Donald either did not, or would not hear!
"And yet, though we who are left are strangers to one another, we have the same memories of the past, of the same type of mischievous girls and staid teachers, though with different names.
Here the girls saw much society, for the old Meades were hospitable, and the Mother Meade, a Scotchwoman, had a great idea of establishing her daughters. The sons she left to Father Meade and his competent money-bags.
"I wish we could keep you, too, but it would not be kind to Mrs Ramsden to leave her with only a message to-night. I must hope to have the pleasure another time. You American girls are so bright and amusing, and I love to be amused.
He gave way to such good advice, but he did not feel at all happy at the idea; and, when going up to the house, always felt an inclination to shirk in at the back-way. But, though neither the widow nor Martin triumphed aloud at their worldly prosperity, the two girls made up for their quiescence.
On the first night of her arrival she did not undress nor go to bed when the other girls retired. Someone found her standing about, and asked her why she was not off for bed. She replied pathetically: "I am waiting for my beating." She had been informed that it was in that fashion all the girls were put to bed each night.
I shouts out, wedgin' my way in among 'em and usin' my elbows. "Gangway for the bank messenger! Ah, don't shove, girls; he ain't the only man left in New York. One side for the real money bringer! One side now!"
There never was a home for me like the cottage, and the old man, and the dear good girl the best of girls! if you hadn't a little spoilt her with your philosophy of the two sides of the case. 'I've not given her the brains. 'She's always doubtful of doing, doubtful of action: she has no will.
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