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Once again, however, for the last time, he gave the word to the officer of the guard; and, soon after, turning away his face to the wall against which his bed was placed, he passed out of life in the very gentlest sleep, "quasi dormiret, spiritum reddidit;" or, as a Greek author expresses it, kat iso hypno to malakotato.
But you just skip into the dining-room and set your table, and I'll have a few words to say to this stove in private, if I don't freeze stiff beforehand;" and Kat jumped up briskly, having compromised on a lace with one shoe, by tying the strings about her ankle. "No kindling to begin with! Oh, this is bliss!
"And the windmills have to work and work, to keep the fields drained. No one can be lazy in Holland. Each one has to work well for what he gets. If Holland should grow lazy, she would soon be back again in the Zuyder Zee! So, my children, you see you must learn well and work hard. And that is all my sermon to-day." "It is a better sermon than the Dominie will preach, I know," said Kat. "Tut, tut!
in crazy-looking capitals. "Well, I don't see how she can," said Kat, "be so polite to a fellow who is paddling about in our canoe, while we flounder in the water, and get along the best we can. I think it's too mean." "But it's not his fault," remonstrated Bea.
Kittie and Kat, found that snatching moments from work, to take a race down the yard, or gather some particular cluster of fresh young blossoms, gave dish-water a chance to cool; or dust, left ready for taking up, to blow back to all corners of the room. Meals began to fall behind, but everybody was too warm and listless to eat much, or mind the tardiness.
While they were singing, there was a sound at the door, of some one feeling for the latch. Then the door flew open, and a great shower of sweet cakes and candies fell onto the sheet, all around Kit and Kat! There in the doorway stood St. Nicholas himself, smiling and shaking off the snow! His horse was stamping outside. Kit and Kat could hear it.
"Yesterday was a very long day," said Vrouw Vedder on the morning after Market Day. "You were gone such a long time." Kat gave her mother a great hug. "We'll stay with you all day to-day, Mother," she said. "Won't we, Kit?" "Yes," said Kit; and he hugged her too. "And we'll help you just as much as we helped Father yesterday. Won't we, Kit?" "More," said Kit. "I shouldn't wonder!" said Father.
I felt as if I ought to," cried Kittie, standing still in despair for a moment; then pulling off her hat and shawl, she put them on her sister in a hurry. "There, Kat, run; I'm so tired, you can go the fastest; go to Mr.
"But where should she go?" asked Bea with a strange uneasiness. "Anywhere, just so people see her new things, and say how pretty she looks," answered Kat, who was not uneasy. So they eat supper and waited; but no appearance of the delinquent. The twins began to clear up, putting a good supply in the oven to keep warm; but the dishes were through with, and all put away, and no Ernestine.
That night, when the girls went to bed, Kat was very much subdued, and kept her face quite persistently out of sight.
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