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But Janey, she always said 'forty kisses." His whole face quivered. A very large tear gathered, trembled, then rolled over; he held his hands together under the lap-robe and looked the other way; then he raised one shoulder and rubbed his cheek against it. "I guess Janey was a pretty nice sister," Dr. Lavendar said. David's hands tightened; he looked up speechless, into the kind old face.
A French gentleman in a military cape walked round the bare room, spoke to the canaries in a great cage in the corner, and came back to where I sat with my fur coat, lap-robe fashion, over my knees. "Pardon!" he said. "Are you the Duchess of Sutherland?" I regretted that I was not the Duchess of Sutherland. "You came just now in a large car?" "I did." "You intend to stay here for some time?"
"I want you to hitch up, and get a new lap-robe, and take me to-day this very evening." "To-day? Good gracious, what's got into you, Hettie?" Henley stammered, glancing here and there in sheer helplessness. "I couldn't get off from business. I've got my hands full of deals of one kind and another.
These children of the Piute brave never mature. They do not take their places in the histories or the school readers of our common country. The Piute wears a bright red lap-robe over his person, and generally a stiff Quaker hat, with a leather band. His hair is very thick, black and coarse, and is mostly cut off square in the neck, by means of an adz, I judge, or possibly it is eaten off by moths.
If asked to explain his conduct, his shyness would not allow him to tell the truth, and lack of invention and practice would find him incapable of contriving a lie that would wash. We worked at the troublesome problem until three in the morning. Meantime Mary was still reaching for the lap-robe. We gave it up, and decided to let her continue to reach.
We tried to arrange this, but it was beset with persistent and irreconcilable difficulties. We saw that Brown's shyness would not allow him to give up the lap-robe.
And there was the mother wavering, half willing-by adroit and flawless diplomacy to be won over, now, or perhaps never at all. Also, there were the helpless Old People yonder in the woods waiting-their fate and Brown's happiness to be determined by what Brown should do within the next two seconds. Mary was reaching for the lap-robe; Brown must decide-there was no time to be lost.
She stood up, and the lap-robe fell about her like green waves from which springs a laughing nymph. Abbott still felt stunned. The crash of an ideal arouses the echo "Is there no truth in the world?" But yes Fran was here, Fran the adorable. "Fran," he pleaded, "don't drive out of Sure-Enough Country. Wait long enough for me to tell you what you are to me."
Taylor vaulted lightly from his seat and, without waiting to help Nora, ran up the path to the house. As she stood up, trying to disentangle herself from the heavy lap-robe, she could hear a key turn noisily in a lock. With a jerk, he threw the door wide open. "Wait a bit and I'll light the lamp, if I can find where the hell it's got to," he called.
"Tell me," she said after a while, "you have moved father and Lily to to one of the Cottontown cottages?" He arose: "In a little while I will tell you, but now we must have something to eat first you see I had this lunch fixed for our journey." He went out, over to his lap-robe and cushion, and brought a basket and placed it on an old table. "You may begin now and be my housekeeper," he smiled.
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