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"So spoilt and conceited, you might say," was the rejoinder; but she felt that there was jealousy in the tone, and only laughed. "What an interesting face he has," a lady remarked, who was having tea with Ideala, tete-a-tete, one afternoon, and had brought the conversation round to Lorrimer, as seemed inevitable in those days. "He must make a charming portrait."
"Hester has a very quiet pony which she can lend you while you are here. By the way, Hester, Squire Lorrimer called to-day. I said you would go to the Towers to-morrow morning you can take Miss Forest with you. The Lorrimers are a very lively household, and it will amuse her to know them." "I should think they are lively," burst from Nan at the far end of the table.
At the picnic the other day I got into a state of mind because little Boris Lorrimer had not come, and I confided in Kitty Lorrimer and went off to fetch him, and Kitty promised she would not tell where I had gone until I had brought him back; but when I got to the Towers I was very hot very, very hot with my long walk, and I found that Boris did not wish to come back with me, and I forgot all about my promise to Kitty, and stayed at the Towers for the rest of the day; but poor Kitty kept her word and did not tell, and Nora got cross with her, and climbed up the beech tree after her, and crept out on to the rotten bough, and so got the dreadful fall which has made her so ill.
Said he had the greatest possible respect for Squire Lorrimer; that it gave him considerable pain to feel that parvenus, like the Drummonds should reside at the Towers; but he said, further, that he could not quite tell how he was to interfere." "Oh, I dare say!" answered Antonia. "I know enough of him to be certain that every step of the path to the rescue must be made clear by others.
You don't understand everything. If I could tell you, you would at least have a different point of view of Dick's honor. It's I who who " "Honor! Don't talk to me about honor! How is it he's alive? Why isn't he beside his comrade, Jack Lorrimer, who died rather than betray his country? It is easy to see how he escaped the bullets of the firing party.
He coughed so as never was, and had to give in at last and keep his room, which he should have done at first; but it takes a deal to make him give in, for he takes no care of hisself though not strong, and we were in a way! Eh! but it would be a bad thing for this place if anything happened to Mr. Lorrimer!" Ideala gave the woman half-a-crown.
"I thought of mask," whimpered Tommy, "but that would mean the kirk was crammed, and I just meant it to be middling full." "Flow would have done," suggested Mr. Lorrimer. "Flow's but a handful," said Tommy. "Curran, then, you jackanapes!" "Curran's no enough." Mr. Lorrimer flung up his hands in despair. "I wanted something between curran and mask," said Tommy, dogged, yet almost at the crying.
"It is just the very thing for me, for I am writing a little book, and cannot get on till I have consulted some authorities on the subject." In the museum they stopped to look at a mummy. "Oh, happy mummy!" burst from Ideala, involuntarily. "Why?" asked Lorrimer, aroused from his apathy. "It has done with it all, you know," she answered.
Hastening forward, for it was growing late, they threaded a number of the short avenues of Ward Three, and at length, when young New York's endurance was nearly exhausted, reached their destination in Chambers Street. It must have been the fatigue which, as they crossed the threshold, propelled Mr. Lorrimer against the door, causing him to stain himself unbecomingly with new paint.
Annie rushed to the door to be greeted by him and the other children, and carried away in their midst. Mrs. Lorrimer asked Susy if she would like to see over the house. "Yes, please," replied Susy; "I have brought the tapes and measures." She stopped, for Hester had given her a heavy frown. "If its really inconvenient, I needn't do anything to-day," she said, sinking back into her seat. Mrs.
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