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This Colorado job is getting to be expensive, deary. I wouldn't dare draw on you through the banks." Miss Donovan had only time to nudge Willis enthusiastically before she overheard the next plea. "Celeste, are you trimming me again?" "Don't be a fool!" came back in subdued tones. "Do you think that telegram is a fake? My Gawd that is what I want money for!
She fancied Farmer Springrove would have spelt it properly if Edward was his informant, which made Miss Aldclyffe's remark obscure. Women make confidences and then regret them.
It come straight back to me Miss Lyman Tarbox told she that wuz Sally Ann Mayhew, and she that wuz Sally Ann told the minister's wife, and she told her aunt, and her aunt told my son-in-law's mother, and Miss Minkley told Tirzah Ann, and she told me it come straight
I wished devoutly it had missed him altogether, or been a few inches higher and more to the right; for in such case I should have had Miss Maitland's undivided sympathies and attention, whereas I had perforce to share them with my rival.
But the haphazard mention of his mother's visit, the coincidence of Winifred's unexpectedly strange behavior and equally unexpected transition to a wildly declared love, revealed some of the hidden sources of events, and over the volcano of his soul he imposed a layer of ice. He even smiled pleasantly as he begged Miss Goodman to dry her eyes and be seated.
I am most thankful to you that you have been the means of my salvation, and can never forget your love till my tongue is silent in the grave. Your affectionate GULY, of Seir. She and her husband, Yohanan, have labored in the mountains ever since their marriage. He writes to Miss Fiske in February, 1861, "I have not forgotten your pleasant love, and trust I never shall until I die.
"Nobody could be rich enough for that," I said. "And being rich isn't the only way to being kind," said Miss Goldy-hair. "Don't wait for that, Tom, to begin." "Of course not," I said. "Miss Goldy-hair's being kind to us has nothing to do with her being rich. You don't understand, Tom."
Miss Puss Jenkins, who had come in late, spoke from her seat near the door, and instinctively all turned toward her. "John Maxwell!" Half a dozen voices repeated the name, but Miss Lizzie Bettie Pryor was the first to protest. "Nonsense!" she said. "How can one man be another? I've seen Mr. Black several times. He's a sharp, shrewd, business-looking man who seems to know Mary Cary very well.
Van Brunt would have been surprised to hear what he said that morning; for he was thought to be quite as keen a looker after the main chance as Miss Fortune herself, only somehow it was never laid against him as it was against her. However that might be, it was plain he took pleasure in keeping his word about the pony.
Lave that to me, unless you'd rather yourself. Miss G. Lord, sir what a rout about one man, when, if I please, I might have a dozen lovers. Christy. Be the same more or less. But one rich bachelor's worth a dozen poor, that is, for the article of a husband.
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