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Where are thy golden aiglets and bells, thy filigree flowers of fantastic design? Where hast thou left thy crimson head-dress, ornamented with precious gewgaws that cost a minot of pearls?
Nuttall speaks explicitly to the same effect, though with no specification of the grounds on which his statement is based. The later systematic biographers Brewer, Samuels, Minot, and the authors of New England Bird Life are silent in respect to the point. Mr. Burroughs, in Wake-Robin, mentions having found two nests, and gives us to understand that he saw only the female birds. Mrs.
After we were seated, and a lull in the conversation came, Louis startled me by saying: "Mr. and Mrs. Minot, I want to ask of you a favor greater than the one granted my little mother; perhaps so great that you will fail to grant it; but it is worth the asking, worth the waiting for through years. May I call Emily my wife?"
"And she said she would?" cried Jill, clasping her hands in her anxiety, for she had learned to love her cage now. "Yes." Mrs. Minot had no time to say more, for one of the red slippers flew up in the air, and Jack had to clap both hands over his mouth to suppress the "hurrah!" that nearly escaped.
Benton, that is not possible, my 'fate, as you call it, is my Emily." "Miss Minot?" said Benton, "great heavens! Has that girl played me false?" "I think not," said Louis calmly, "and since the subject is broached, perhaps it will be best for me to tell you that Emily is to be my wife, her parents being willing." "You are a gentleman, truly! I gave you my confidence and expected"
Ralph was in his element, putting up a little stage, drilling boys, arranging groups, and uniting in himself carpenter, scene-painter, manager, and gas man. Mrs. Minot permitted the house to be turned topsy-turvy, and Mrs. Pecq flew about, lending a hand everywhere. Jill was costumer, with help from Miss Delano, who did not care for balls, and kindly took charge of the girls.
On their way downstairs Miss Minot stopped at Miss Williams' door. "I've got to tell her that Annie can't go, and I am taking you in her place," she said, as she rapped for admittance. "Of course, Miss Minturn can go if she has no special duties," Miss Williams observed, when the matter was explained to her.
Matthias came in of an errand, and sat down to hear us talk, and when father said, "Oh, no, we shall not have war; those Southerners are too lazy to fight," he raised both his hands and exclaimed: "Excoose me fur conterdictin' ye, but, Mr. Minot, ye dunno 'bout dat; dey'll fight to de end ob time for dar stock.
I cannot see why we may not agree on all else." "I believe we do; I respect your opinions, Mr. Minot; we cannot afford to lose you either. May I ask with what denomination you would propose to unite?" "None at all," said my father, "unless the road comes clearer before me. I love our old meeting-house, Mr.
Minot had not kept good watch, she would have been off more than once, so eager was she to be "like other girls" again, so difficult was it to keep the restless feet quietly folded among the red cushions. One day she did yield to temptation, and took a little voyage which might have been her last, owing to the carelessness of those whom she trusted.
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