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You looked too sweet for anything, and I guess he thought so " "Polly! what did I tell you?" She came back with a half-mended stocking. "Aren't you ever going to let me speak of Mr. Randolph again? He acted as if he were dead in love with y " A hand was clapped over her mouth. "I won't hear it! I won't! I won't!" Miss Sterling laughed a little uncertainly.
In the cooler and darker parts of the room stood high-backed chairs littered with a dozen articles which spoke of a woman's presence; here a fan and silk hood, there a half-mended glove. As the young man's eyes fell on these, and he drank in the airy brightness and even luxury of the room, he felt a strange pang of regret and misery. Such things were no longer for him.
Grandoken entered the shop and sat down opposite her husband. "Lafe," she began, clearing her throat. The cobbler questioned her with a glance. "That girl'll be the death of this hull shanty," she announced huskily. "I hate 'er more'n anything in the world." Lafe placed a half-mended shoe beside him on the bench. "What's ailin' 'er now, Peggy?"
By-and-by Betty the servant came to the door into the kitchen, and made a sign to Phillis, who put her half-mended stocking down, and went away to the kitchen without a word. Looking at cousin Holman a minute or two afterwards, I saw that she had dropped her chin upon her breast, and had fallen fast asleep.
But her father stood by me, asking many questions concerning the siege, and gaping at the half-mended arch of the bridge, where through we sailed, and at the blackened walls of Les Tourelles, and all the ruin that war had wrought. But now masons and carpenters were very busy rebuilding all, and the air was full of the tinkling of trowels and hammers.
"It isn't really pleasant to be broken, is it, although we try to pretend we don't care, don't we?" "No, it isn't exactly pleasant," replied Mr. Waldron, and a half-smile flickered over his face. "How did you get broken?" "Somebody let me fall, father says, and afterwards I was only half-mended. It is horrid to be only a half-mended thing but some people are so stupid, you know." Mr.
She saw that just in front of her lay a long piece of half-mended road, full of ugly little stones, and she turned Ronald on it, with a triumphant, "See how you like that, sir," and then sawed his mouth. In half a minute he was walking. In another the master was beside her with words of approval.
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