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"'My God's' a bad word," Anna said gravely to her father, "isn't it, Mother?" "I wouldn't like to hear you say it," Julia answered. "Now trot out to Aunt Regina, dear, and ask her to give you your lunch. Mother'll be there immediately. "She's exquisite," Jim said, when the child was gone. "You all over again, Ju!" "She's smarter than I was." Julia smiled dispassionately.
At the end of ten days he was greatly reduced in flesh and incapable of work, so on one of the "well days" that are usual in the course of the disease he said: "Say, gurruls, I can't stand it no longer. Guess I better go home. I'm well enough to drive to-day, for a while anyway; if I'm took down I'll lay in the wagon, and the horses will fetch me home. Mother'll have me all right in a week or so.
"It stands you in hand to mind your tongue, though, Susan Kinalden," soliloquized she, as she wiped the last dish and stood it up end-wise in her pantry. "It isn't the first time you've come nigh biting your own head off!" "Come in, Pat; mother'll be glad to see ye," said Nannie, as he put the pail softly within the door, and was about retreating.
"If I try and help Mrs. Wiggins, mother'll bounce out at me. She shook me last night after I went upstairs, and she boxed my ears 'cause I wanted to keep the kitchen fire up last night." "I'll go with you to the kitchen and tell Mrs. Wiggins to let you help, and I won't let your mother punish you again unless you do wrong." Mrs.
If you don't come over, she'll wonder why, and mother'll wonder why, and mother'll ask me, and, oh, dear! dear!" Jerry thought she really was going to cry, this time, and it seemed to him that these domestic whirlwinds furnished ample reason for it. "Course!" he said, in whole-hearted misery for her. "It's a bad place. A man wouldn't think anything of it, but womenfolks are different.
"When I've gone you're to have breakfast, and I think you'll both eat it," he said, smiling at them, his eyes bright with affection and contentment. "Then you're to compose yourselves for sleep, and I think you'll both sleep. To-morrow Dad's to be out on the porch all June is out there, and the roses are in full bloom. Day after to-morrow Mother'll be there, too, in the hammock.
"Surely the mother'll turn up before dark," she said. But nobody turned up, and Miss Chadwick, who had had to guess at the baby's age and requirements, and had mixed too strong a bottle, spent a wakeful night patting her small guest on the back and endeavouring to still her wails.
His mother'll be wantin' somethin' that he wore when it happened," said Dick, as he gathered some of the larger fragments of cloth from the snow. Then with bowed heads and heavy hearts they silently retraced their steps to the tilt, hauling the toboggan after them. At the tilt they halted to arrange their future course of action. "Now," said Dick, "what's t' be done?
"Where is Cousin Elizabeth?" said Laura rather sharply, as she looked round her. Polly explained that her mother was probably shut up in her bedroom reading her Bible. That was her custom on a Sunday afternoon. "Why, I haven't spoken to her at all!" cried Laura. Her cheek had flushed. Polly showed embarrassment. "Next time yo coom, mother'll tak' mair noatice.
The captain gave the wheel a slight turn, and ran a little closer to the island. "Eben." The boy looked curiously at his father. "D'ye s'pose yer mother'll be waitin' fer us?" "Most likely." The captain shifted uneasily, and clutched the wheel with a firmer grip. "Say, Eben, it was too bad that gal got hurt last night, wasn't it?" The boy started, and gave his father a quick look.
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