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There was a rug on the floor, and Japanese lanterns hung from the ceiling, all in tones of green and white and silver. Marjorie unceremoniously dislodged Puff from her comfortable position, and flung herself into the hammock instead.
"But won't you tell me why you ask me to be so exceedingly unaccommodating, Miss Moore?" Bab retorted. Marjorie Moore shook her head. "That's just the trouble. Again I can't tell you why I ask this of you. But I want to assure you of one thing. It would mean a great deal more to me, personally, to have you agree to do the favor that may or may not be asked of you this afternoon.
"Miss Walbert, this is Miss Mason, Miss Lynne, Miss Harper " Marjorie presented her friends in turn to the newcomer, then said: "Please make Miss Walbert feel at home among us, while I greet our famous juniors." "Oh, we knew you wouldn't forget your little friends," laughed Selma, "particularly the Swedish dwarf."
Now, play that page over and over for an hour." Marjorie did hate those tedious "exercises," and she was glad for her mother to see how poky it was to drum at them for an hour. As a rule, Marjorie did her practising patiently enough, but sometimes she revolted, and it made her chuckle to see Mrs. Maynard carefully picking out the "five-finger drills."
When Marjorie could see him, as at last he put his wife into the single chair that stood in the cell and gave her the stool, himself sitting upon the table, she was shocked by the change in his face. He was dressed miserably, too; his clothes were disordered and rusty-looking; and his features looked out, at once pinched and elongated.
Marjorie exclaimed incredulously. "Well no I don't know," said Allie, wavering a little. "Ned's just about as near right as he can be; but I believe, after all, I'd rather live in the house with Charlie. Ned might be a little too peppery for a steady diet." "I never thought you'd turn a cold shoulder to Ned," said Marjorie, shaking her head over Allie's defection.
Let's see we only want halves, Marjorie and Fidge and myself; you'll have to get a whole ticket, I suppose, though I have seen a notice at a railway station somewhere, on which it stated, 'Soldiers and Dogs half-price. Perhaps it applies to birds, too. You had better ask, I think." So the Dodo went back to the booking-office again and inquired, "Do birds travel half-price?" "Nonsense!
"The persons inside the coach were Mr Miller a clergyman his son a lawyer Mr Angelo a foreigner his lady and a little child" In the entire sentence there was not one punctuation mark. "Read it, please." Marjorie began to read, then stopped and laughed. "I can't." "You wouldn't enjoy a book very much written in that style, would you?" "I couldn't enjoy it at all. I wouldn't read it"
Standing among her teammates afterward, surrounded by a circle of enthusiastic fans, it was borne upon her that she knew a great many Hamilton girls. She had not thought her friendly acquaintances among them so large. "You did what Muriel said you folks would do," Jerry exulted, when, congratulations over, Muriel and Marjorie were free to join their chums. "You laid the junies up for the winter.
Our bucket is so big that it will easily hold ours and hers, too." "I'd like to see me do it," spoke up Marjorie. "I'd be sure not to get back as many as I put in." Stella curled her lip and lifted her eyebrows scornfully. "You needn't be afraid," she said; "nobody wants one of your old berries.
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