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"She is n't like other girls," contended Miss Gleason darkly. "I would rather have Mr. Libby's opinion," said Mrs. Merritt. Grace went to Mrs. Maynard's room, and told her that Dr. Mulbridge was coming directly after dinner. "I knew you would do it!" cried Mrs. Maynard, throwing her right arm round Grace's neck, while the latter bent over to feel the pulse in her left.
We then knew we were in between the Boers and the English but we had no other knowledge of our geographical position. Such being the case we decided to outspan and lunch. Out-spanning is setting the mules and horses at liberty, in-spanning trying to catch them again. It takes five minutes to out-span, and three hours to in-span. We had Armour's corned beef and Libby's canned bacon.
"Well, I'd have you know that I wash my hands of him, Ephraim!" declared Mrs. Barnes, with emphasis. And so it came about that the Pup presently found himself, not Libby's special pet, but Captain Ephraim's. Two important members of the Barnes family were a large yellow cat and a small, tangle-haired, blue-gray mop of a Skye terrier.
And I would stop to see that glass dress all finished off for the Princess Eulaly. There it wuz in plain sight in Mr. Libby's factory draped on a wax figger of Eulaly. Mr. Libby made it and presented it to the Princess. It took ten million feet of glass thread; it wuz wove into twelve yards of cloth, and sent to a dressmaker in New York, who fitted it to the Princess on her last days in the city.
Libby's," said the young woman, after a moment's hesitation. "I am Agnes Rayne. I hope I did not frighten you." "No," I replied, brushing the sand from my damp clothing as I rose. "I am afraid if you had not come by fortunately, I should have had a thorough wetting. Can we get home before the storm begins?"
As for his hind feet, which stuck out always straight behind him and close together, like a sort of double-barrelled tail, she was quite sure they had been fixed that way by mistake, and she could not, in spite of all her father's explanations as to the advantages, for a seal, of that arrangement, ever bring herself to accept them as normal. Miss Libby's mother proved even less cordial.
She heard steps on the sand, and Libby came round the corner of the house from the stable. Libby's friends had broken up their camp on the beach, and had gone to a lake in the heart of the woods for the fishing. He had taken a room at the Long Beach House, but he spent most of his time at Jocelyn's, where he kept his mare for use in going upon errands for Mrs. Maynard.
She had resented Libby's treating her upon a theory, but she treated herself upon a theory, and we all treat ourselves upon a theory. We proceed each of us upon the theory that he is very brave, or generous, or gentle, or liberal, or truthful, or loyal, or just.
But there is such a pretty tie down the street at Libby's." "And you've a million ties, more or less," declared Bess. "Of course we'll take it from her, Walter. Come on, now! I'm ready." Under Walter's piloting the chums reached the street and number Inez had given Nan. It was a cheap and dirty tenement house.
Breen hesitated between the duty of accompanying the young couple on their European travels, and that of going to the village where Libby's mills were situated, in southern New Hampshire. She was not strongly urged to a decision by her children, and she finally chose the latter course.
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