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"It's to take this paper to Reed's store on G Street, and bring home the things the clerk will give you. If you will I'll give you an orange when you come back." The child's eyes brightened. "I'll go," she said. "Ma's down-stairs, and I'm minding the baby, but I'll call her." "Thank you," said Sara, and ran back to her charge.
I reckon you must be what the breedin' men call 'a throw-back, for yore pa wa'n't much to brag of, 'ceptin' for looks he certainly was good-lookin'. He used to sober down when he got where you was; but my good God! weren't they a pair to draw to? I've heard 'Lando tell tales of yore ma's doin's that would 'fright ye. Not that she fooled with men," she hastened to say. "Lord, no!
When she was a friend, she was stone deaf and mole blind to every evil report agin them she loved. Miss Marcia would go straight to that jail, and put her arms 'round Miss Ellice's child, and stand by her till her last breath; and the more she was pussecuted, the closer she would stick. Miss Leo, you must take your ma's place, you must heir her friendship just like you do her other property.
I'm getting a complexion and your ma's losing hers. Hadn't anything with her but some bonnets, so just before we left the hotel she went into a little branch store, which a New York milliner runs there, and tried to buy a shade hat.
Beebe, when the little green door with its jangling bell had really closed on her and on Johnny, "as soon as we get these shoes back again in the boxes, you better run into th' parler, 'cause Ma's been a-waitin' considerable." Joel, much divided in his mind whether he would rather stay in the shop altogether, with the delightful shoes, or go out and spend half of the time with Mrs.
Why thar's all ma's money which she left me in the Savin's Bank that I wanted to draw out for I had the right and give it to him, but he wouldn't hear of it! Why, he wouldn't take one of the things I've got with me, if he knew it.
They want me to put on black to put on huh! when the fool has already made me spend my last dollar on an outfit that shucks! Well, you see what I've got my foot into. I had actually to clap my hand over Ma's mouth the other day while Carrie Wade was there making her brags to keep Ma from telling of my great loss. Carrie would see through it, you know she would, and I'd never hear the end of it.
Say, what's good for a black eye?" The grocery man told him his Pa would cure it when he got home, "What do you think your Pa's object was in passing himself off for a single man at Oconomowoc," asked the grocery man, as he charged up the cucumber to the boy's father. "That's what beats me. Aside from Ma's hay fever she is one of the healthiest women in this town.
Ada suggested that it was comfortable to know that Mr. Jellyby did not mean these destructive sentiments. "No, of course I know Pa wouldn't like his family to be weltering in their blood," said Caddy, "but he means that they are very unfortunate in being Ma's children and that he is very unfortunate in being Ma's husband; and I am sure that's true, though it seems unnatural to say so."
And then a sad picture came into his mind. "And Mrs. Lady bug's children " he began breathlessly. "Oh! The neighbors saved them," his favorite cousin said. "They're only slightly scorched. But their ma's house is ruined." Then, to everybody's great surprise, Freddie Firefly began to dance up and down and sing with joy. "Oh, I'm so glad! Oh, I'm so glad!" he chanted over and over again.
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