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What ith it, a thtorm?" Harriet nodded. "I knew it. I jutht knew thomething wath going to break loothe." The purple haze was nearing at a rapid rate of speed, and Harriet Burrell saw that with it the sea was piling up, its white crests angry and menacing. "Try to keep the wind dead astern," ordered the skipper. "I will handle the sheets. Do you think you can manage it?" "Yes, sir.
'I darethay I thall be jutht the thame, unleth I get married. Freda glances up, and perceives a smile of amusement on Colonel Vaughan's lips, and the usual calm inanity on Miss Nugent's handsome features. 'That will depend on yourself, I am sure, said the colonel. Freda looks again, and sees the colonel's magnificent eyes fixed on the young lady, who returns his glance, and simpers out,
"Buthter thinkth it ith her clotheth that are heavy," jeered Tommy. "It ithn't your clotheth, Buthter; it'th you." "Make her stop, Miss Elting. Don't you think I am suffering enough, without Tommy making me feel any worse?" "Yes, I do. Tommy, will you please stop annoying Margery?" "Yeth, Mith Elting, I'll thtop until Buthter getth dry again. But I'm jutht ath wet at thhe ith, and I'm not croth."
Janus unwound himself from his blanket and stood with his hands in pockets, observing the jolly party. "Don't lean over too far forward when you throw," warned Harriet. "You jutht watch me. I'm going to make thith one thkip clear acroth the pond. Here it goeth. Oh, what a lovely Thlide!" In her excitement, Tommy leaped to the end of the slippery course, jumping up and down.
So 'tinkle, tinkle, twang, twang, THRUM! went the industrious and accomplished Puddock's guitar; and the voices of the enamoured swains kept tolerable tune and time; and Puddock would say, 'Don't you think, Captain Cluffe, 'twould perhapth go better if we weren't to try that shake upon A. Do let's try the last two barth without it; and 'I'm thorry to trouble you, but jutht wonth more, if you pleathe
"That ith all right. You jutht thit where the chair would be if there were one," suggested Tommy. "No sitting this evening," declared the guardian. "You will all prepare for bed. At least two of you need rest I mean Harriet and Tommy." "Yeth, we alwayth need that. I never thhall get enough of it until after I have been dead ever and ever tho long."
"Wilfred, have you nearly finished your work?" "Nearly, Mater," said the industrious Wilfred, manufacturing mountains tirelessly. "Just got to stick in a few more things." "Say 'put, darling, not 'stick. Cecilia, you might point out those little details that is, if you took any interest in their English." "Thethilia thaid 'awfully' jutht now," said Queenie, in a shrill pipe.
I'd like to stand up with you, little partridge." Vinie put down her head and began to cry. "It's nothing, nothing! There isn't anything the matter! Don't think it, Mr. Adam. I jutht get tired and cold, and Christmas isn't like it used to be. Now I've stopped and I'll dance with you with pleasure, Mr. Adam." "That's right," said Adam.
"Auguthuth," was the curt comment of his partner, "you're a fool." "All right, my boy, you try," suggested Augustus. "Jutht what I mean to do," asserted his partner. "Well," demanded Augustus one evening later, meeting Isidore ascending the stairs after a long talk with the stranger in the dining-room with the door shut. "Oh, don't arth me," retorted Isidore, "thilly ath, thath what he ith."
"I had forgotten about the dithheth. But I've got a plan about that. You jutht put the dithheth in a bag and thouthe them up and down in the lake. Then you put them on deck till they dry off. Now, ithn't that a plan? That ith a better plan than Harriet thaid jutht now." "I feel sorry for your house if you ever own one," laughed Harriet, beginning to clear off the table.
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