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He merely sniffed at the term and went on to disparage the little friends of Patricia. "You told me not to say 'darn," he protested, "but those girls all said it about every other word." "Not really?" said Winona, aghast. "Darn this and darn that! And darn that ball! And darned old thing!" insisted the witness, imitatively. "Oh, dear!" sighed Winona.
Sandford permitted; and though she did not care much about the investigations that followed, the doctor and I did. As delightful as the morning had been, the long afternoon stretched its bright hours along; till Mrs. Sandford insisted I must be dressed, and pushed the microscope into a corner and ordered the doctor away.
If the urchin had been the child of rich parents, as Euphemia sometimes observed, he would have been in his nurse's arms but being poor, he was scarcely weaned before he began to carry milk around to other people. One of our earliest subjects of discussion was the name of our homestead. Euphemia insisted that it should have a name.
"You see, Tom," said he, when he found that his companion insisted upon knowing the cost of the books, "this is a publisher's secret; and I dare say they would not wish every one to know the cost of books. We sell them for a dollar apiece." "Humph! You needn't be so close about it. I'll bet I can find out."
Probably he was correct. In 1908 Russia was quite impotent, and the Central Powers might have won. But Germany insisted on peace. I arrived in London, and was amazed to find for the first time people who believed in the Young Turks. They would listen to no facts, and would not believe me when I said that the Turkish Empire, as it stood, would probably barely survive one Parliament.
"Who sold them first?" "Who first? Oh, the people that brought them over from Africa, I suppose; or the people in their own country that sold them to them." "They had no right to sell them," I said. "Can't tell about that," said Preston. "We bought them. I suppose we had a right to do that." "But if the fathers and mothers were bought," I insisted, "that gave us no right to have their children."
You lammed into him, and she took up and defended him. That's all there is to the 'mad-dog' part of it." "But Ed " sputtered his wife. "Now, you let ME do the talking, Sade!" he insisted, half-grinning, yet more than half grimly. "I'm the boss here. If I'm not, then it's safe to listen to me till the boss gets here.
His friends said he was surly—he insisted he was nervous; they thought him a lucky dog, but he protested that he was ‘the most unfortunate man in the world.’ Cold as he was, and wretched as he declared himself to be, he was not wholly unsusceptible of attachments.
For seventy-five cents, which Frank insisted on paying, Dick succeeded in getting quite a neat-looking cap, which corresponded much better with his appearance than the one he had on. The last, not being considered worth keeping, Dick dropped on the sidewalk, from which, on looking back, he saw it picked up by a brother boot-black who appeared to consider it better than his own.
But they did not go to the opera after all, for in getting up from dinner the dizziness came over him again, and she insisted on his staying quiet and going to bed early. When he parted from her at the door of the hotel, having paid the cabman to drive her to Chelsea, he sat down again for a moment to enjoy the memory of her words: "You are such a darling to me, Uncle Jolyon!" Why!
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