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In the last place there was nothing but fruit to eat, and here it's worse, for there's nothing but candy." "Molasses candy isn't so bad," said Trot. "Mine's nearly cool enough to pull, already. Wait a bit, Cap'n, and you can eat it." A little later she was able to gather the candy from the stone plate and begin to work it back and forth with her hands.
Neither of us can do more than open purses; and mine's lean. If the old Crossways had no tenant, it would be a purse all mouth. And charity is haunted, like everything we do. Only I say with my whole strength yes, I am sure, in spite of the men professing that they are practical, the rich will not move without a goad.
"Only we make believe, lots of times, that we're going to." The three boys dug away and Mun Bun and Margy did the same, only more slowly. Then along came Rose and Violet. "What are you doing?" Violet asked, getting in her question first, as usual. "Digging holes," answered Russ. "Seeing who can make the biggest," added George. "Mine's deeper than yours!" he said to Russ.
All reflexion is affectation, and all acting's reflexion." "I don't know mine's instinct," Miriam contended. "My dear young lady, you talk of 'yours'; but don't be offended if I tell you that yours doesn't exist. Some day it will if the thing comes off. Madame Carré's does, because she has reflected.
"Well, I don't know your name, but mine's Billy Garrison, and you're a liar!" He struck Inside Information a whack across the face that sent him a tumbled heap on the floor. There is no one so dangerous as a coward. There is nothing so dangerous as ignorance. The New Englander had heard much of Gotham's undercurrent and the brawls so prevalent there. He had heard and feared.
Burns," said Pitt Bushyager, "this is Mr. "Vandemark," said I: "Jacob Vandemark" you see I did not know then that my correct name is Jacobus. "Mine's Bushyager," said he, "Pitt Bushyager, Got a raft of brothers and sisters so you'll know us better after a while. Mr. Burns, this is Mr. Vandemark." "Glad to meet you, Mr.
She was smoking, puffing quickly at her cigarette, and hardly silent a moment. "It's been a perfect treat," she said. "You're both dears, aren't they, Tommy? You must come and have tea at the hospital any day: just walk in. Mine's Ward 3. Come about four o'clock, and you'll find me any day this week, Tommy's opposite. There's usually a crush at tea, but you must come.
But the housemaid has told me that you had two wet-nurses before me, and that both their babies died, so I cannot stop here now that mine's ill. Everyone for her own; you can't blame me. I'm sorry for yours poor little thing, she was getting on nicely too." "But, Waters, you won't leave my baby. It's cruel of you. If I could nurse it myself " "Why couldn't you, ma'am?
He climbed aboard, painter in hand, and making the light line fast to one of the cleats, sat down on the locker across from his host. "My name's Carline." "Mine's Lester Terabon; a newspaper let me come down the river to write stories about it; it's the biggest thing I ever saw!" "It's an awful size!" Carline admitted, looking around over his shoulder, and Terabon watched the face.
"I don't see anything amiss with it," said Nurse, who stood with her head on one side, and the other bonnet perched on her hand. "They're as alike as two pins," she added, twirling it round admiringly. "They're both just as ugly as they can be," said Pennie mournfully; "but mine's sure to look worse than Nancy's it always does.
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