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The woman did not do for the little children as his grandmother had done for him. All four crawled around in the dirt and looked so that Sami didn't care to have anything to do with them. If they cried they were knocked this way and that, and at night the woman took up one after another from the ground, put it in the wagon, pulled the dirty grey blanket over them and went away again.
"No, he can't get through the fence," her mother answered after a look around. "Don't be afraid." By this time Margy's grandmother had caught the little girl up in her arms, and was walking away from the ram. "I must cover your red coat up with my apron, and then the ram can't see it," said Grandma Bell. "It's the red color he doesn't like." "'Cause why?" asked Margy.
"Oh, no," said Frank. "He's in Schlangenbad." "Of course, of course. By the way, your father's pretty intimate with Torrington, isn't he? The Secretary of State for War." "My father's under-secretary of the War Office," said Frank. "Now, what sort of a man is Torrington? He's a distant cousin of mine. My great aunt was his grandmother or something of that sort But I only met him once, years ago.
"Poor little Margot! she was sadly put to for an answer, for she remembered what her grandmother had told her about keeping the secret of the purse; and not being old enough to evade a direct reply, she burst into tears, taking up her apron to her face.
An artist friend of ours fairly made us have it taken in the wedding-dress worn by her grandmother. You know the Josephine Beauharnais 'Directoire' style that was worn in seventeen ninety-something. Her neck and shoulders are lovely, and that was why we consented.
Around was the bustle of the barrack-rooms, where hundreds of others were called up, like himself, chosen for the Chinese squadron. And rapidly he wrote to his old grandmother, with a stump of pencil, crouching on the floor, alone in his own feverish dream, though in the thick of the continual hurry and hubbub amidst all the young sailors hurried away like himself.
Marjorie's parents looked aghast, for to them it seemed as if she had simply played a practical joke on her grandmother, and one not easily forgiven, but Grandpa Maynard expressed himself in a series of chuckles. "Chip of the old block," he said. "Chip of the old block! Just what you would have done, Ed, when you were a boy, if you had thought of it!
Then he told her of his own pleasant school days in the far-off Connecticut village where Grandmother Carew lived; and when Mrs.
And as they entered and stood all three in the hall, the dog feeling himself now in his new character as welcome as his human companions, she finished: "Suzanna's asleep." "My father wished greatly you would allow Suzanna to go to my grandmother, though it is late," put in Graham. "Could she be awakened?" asked David. And by the expression in his eyes Mrs.
On the twenty-third of December, a little while before the hour for story-telling, Hermy came home, and exhibited to his brothers the trifling presents, which he had chosen: an eraser for his father, a lead-pencil for his mother, a bag of nuts for his grandmother, and similar trifles which, though insignificant in themselves, had nevertheless exhausted his little store of savings.
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