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'I've been talking rather grave talks with some of them, Betty said reflectively, 'about tribulation. Mrs. Fairfax raised her eyebrows. 'That is very grave talk indeed for such a mite as you. What do you know about it? 'I know that everybody has got it except me, and I want to have it; and old Jenny said I'd be sure to come to it soon. She's had it, and Reuben has, and Mr.
Fascinating and charming and so weighted with possibilities, that Mura, who had prospered, leaped for his chance and sent Sada San money for the passage over. Not a mite of anxiety shadowed her eyes when she told me that Uncle kept a wonderful tea-house in Kioto. He must be very rich, she thought, because he wrote her of the beautiful things she was to have.
She finished dressing the poor sickly mite, who seemed to thank her by a loving look in his faded eyes. "What a life of toil and self-denial!" thought the cavalry officer. Beneath a roof worthy of the stable wherein Jesus Christ was born, the hardest duties of motherhood were fulfilled cheerfully and without consciousness of merit.
"No,'m. I'm glad, but I don't say any thing." "Words are not needed; but they help, sometimes, if they are sincere and sweet. Did you never learn any prayers, Ben?" "Only 'Now I lay me. Grandma taught me that when I was a little mite of a boy." "I will teach you another, the best that was ever made, because it says all we need ask." "Our folks wasn't very pious; they didn't have time, I s'pose."
"Oh, nothin' much," sez I, "only a stray Englishman happened to pull that name on us a while back, an' I wondered where he came into possession of it." "You got somethin' up your sleeve," sez Bill, who was a mite too observin' at times; "what is it you want to know?" "Nothin' at all," sez I; "I know all I want to now." "What kind of lookin' feller was it?" sez Bill.
She knew at the outset that the quest would be hopeless, but she could think of no better way to pass the next hour then to extract a mite of information from the officer. "Now for a good old chat," she said, beaming a smile upon the grizzled Russian. "Is there a decent hotel in the village?" she asked.
They were happy and proud men when Miss Dobson, the primary teacher, said the girl was too far advanced for the first class and entered her in the second. "Just natural smartness," Captain Shadrach declared. "Natural smartness and nothin' else. She ain't had a mite of advantages, but up she goes just the same. Why, Teacher told me she considered her a reg'lar parachute."
'There's Young Denny Bolton, he said, 'who went to school with him, right here in this town. Ask him if Jeddy Conway was pretty handy as a boy! And he laughed, Flash commenced to chuckle! Oh, there was no misunderstanding what he meant to insinuate. 'Ask him but maybe he's still a little mite too sensitive to talk about it yet eh, Denny?
She's a widow; has two children." So to Mrs. Edgar we went. Her eyes devoured me. She is a mite of a woman, young, white-faced, vivacious. "For a tea?" she asked. "A a large one?" She spoke with forced calmness, but her hands had the artist's flutter, the enthusiast's eagerness to be doing. "I'll get samples," she went on; "there's not a minute to be lost; not one moment!
I don't want Lossing to persuade Esther to commit herself; you know how, when she was a little mite, if Esther gave her word she kept it. I want you to promise me you won't let Esther be alone one second with young Lossing. She is going to-morrow, but there's your whist-party to-night; I suppose he's coming? And I want you to promise you won't let him have our address.
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