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"There being none other in the village, I'll permit you to quaff the vain draught, so that you will season it with a little of my gruel; I cannot fancy, even, where it came from," she said, playfully extending to the doctor her spoon, half filled. Doctor Eaton bent forward, and put his lips to the spoon she had not meant him to touch. Miss Axtell seemed surprised.
Lawson; yet I would not have you otherwise." The girl was mechanically picking to pieces the white petals of bright-eyed marguerites and strewing the ground beside her. "You ruthless vandal! look at your work, Miss Montgomery," exclaimed a bright romping miss of fifteen, bursting upon them without regard to ceremony and pointing to the ground where lay the scattered petals.
The next morning I started on my mission with renewed hopefulness. Reaching the Crawford house, I asked for Miss Lloyd, and I was shown into a small parlor to wait for her.
'Miss Barfoot has spoken of you so favourably that I did not think it necessary to see you before consenting to what she suggested. Perhaps she has told you that I have my own furniture; it is very plain, but, I think, comfortable.
I get little exercise, and I miss it. I was on the track team at Yale, you see, and rather strong at tennis." Mr. Litterny smiled, and his smile was full of sympathy. "We try to make a stained-glass saint out of you," he said, "and all the time you're a human youngster with a human desire for a good time.
He felt a little embarrassed, and was retiring, when he heard Sidonia reply to an inquiry of the lady, 'The same, and then, turning to Coningsby, said aloud, 'Coningsby, Miss Millbank says that you have forgotten her. Coningsby started, advanced, coloured a little, could not conceal his surprise. The lady, too, though more prepared, was not without confusion, and for an instant looked down.
It was a happy little party that set off for Norrington Court. The boys were on their ponies, and Miss Bertram in her pony trap, with Rob sitting behind, proud in the consciousness of a new suit of clothes, and delighted at being included in the number.
Dinner was a jolly feast, simple as it was, for in this land folk live upon simple food and are satisfied with little variety, for their appetites and desires are not glutted, as ours so often are. And many things that you and I deem necessary they do not miss, because they have never had them, and more often than not have never so much as heard of them.
Judith meanwhile, being partnerless, had wormed her way down to the prefects who were leading the line. "Cathy," she whispered urgently, "do go slow, please; he's limping, you know, and don't stop when we get to the cars. Please, please, just walk on slowly, and perhaps Miss Ashwell won't notice. I'll tell you why later. It's awfully important." "Right you are, Mr.
But that's the way with things; folks never turn out to be as bad as you thought they were when you get to know their whys and their wherefores; and many a poor soul as is put down as worldly is really only anxious to make things pleasant for the master and the children." "Miss Elisabeth's mourning is handsome, I don't deny," said Mrs.
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