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Updated: May 10, 2025
"God bless you, my daughter!" said the Colonel, smiling proudly, "and never forget you're a Huff!" To be a Huff, of course, was to be brave and true and never go back on a friend; but as the Colonel that evening began to speak on the subject, Virginia crept off to bed.
She was a decidedly plain- looking country girl; but when she came near, Ellen saw a sober, sensible face, and a look of thorough good-nature, which immediately ranked her next to Jenny Hitchcock in her fancy. Mr. Bill Huff followed, a sturdy young man; quite as plain, and hardly so sensible-looking; he was still more shining with good-nature. He made no pretensions to the elegance of Mr.
Though it will be rather awkward, mind, for us to see much of each other just at first, after my having got kicked out like that, won't it?" The tone in which Max answered betrayed considerable surprise and perplexity. "Kicked out!" he exclaimed. "My father said he hardly got a word out before you took yourself off in a huff."
It was the Widow Huff, once the first lady of Keno, but now a boarding-house cook. "What a dinner now? At half-past three? And with this wind fairly driving me crazy? Well, I can't hire anybody to keep such hours for me and " There was a murmur of low-voiced protest as Virginia pleaded his cause and then, as the Widow burst out anew, the young man pushed back his chair.
And besides, how could Wiley know anything about it? He's never been down the shaft." "But why you told me yourself " "I never told you anything!" burst out Virginia tearfully. "You just jump at everything like a flea. And now you'll tell everybody, and Wiley'll say I did it, and " "Virginia Huff!" cried her mother, dramatically, "are you in love with that thief?" "He is not! No, I am not!
Bob was up and around again now, not much the worse for his experience with the "doctored" shoes. "A fight!" exclaimed several, and there was a rush for two combatants, who seemed sparring in dead earnest on the outskirts of the Banbury contingent. Banbury himself had just come striding from the school building in a great huff.
"Why, what's up now?" the parson queried. "Ye'd better ask 'what's down? It's that little lass in yon, down in bed, because some numb-skulls thought they could sail a boat. I told 'em this mornin' what I thought of 'em fer takin' a gal like that out on the water, an' they went off in a huff." "How is she this morning, captain?
And having been reminded that we never fought, unless attacked, as we were the day before, and that we had come among them for the purpose of promoting peace, and of teaching them to worship the Supreme, to give up selling His children, and to cultivate other objects for barter than each other, he replied, in a huff, "Then I am dead already."
When he had waited indoors half the day to see her, and on finding that she would not be seen, had gone off in a huff to the dreariest and dampest walk he could discover, she would restore equilibrium in the evening with 'Mr.
Apparently Stickney was on the point of advertising largely with the Orb, and had backed out in a huff. Today, I went to see him about my holiday, and he wanted to know who was coming in to do my work. I mentioned you, and he absolutely refused to have you in. I'm awfully sorry about it." I was silent. The shock was too great.
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