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You come back here and aren't interested in seeing that others less fortunate get the right kind of books into their hands and heads. I don't want to preach, dear. But education isn't only a privilege. It is a responsibility." "Maybe you are right, Mums. I didn't think of it that way. I just didn't want to bother. I was well, I was thinking too much about myself I suppose." "Youth is apt to.
It will look so pretty, Aunt Claudia, when Truxton comes in the morning to kiss you " Aunt Claudia had been holding on to her emotions tightly. The thought of that morning kiss which for three dreadful years had been denied her for three dreadful years she had not known whether Truxton would ever breeze into her room before breakfast with his "Mornin' Mums."
"Perhaps it doesn't concern you what pa thinks either? Dad told Mums last night that he was altogether at a loss to know how to deal with you, you had come back so queer and unruly. And he said, let me see, oh, he said that 'if he didn't see an alteration very soon he should resort to more drastic measures' drastic measures is Latin for a whopping."
"I'm tired of seeing furniture go in, anyway," and Dolly jumped up from her kneeling position. "I'd rather see the people. Do you s'pose there's anybody 'bout my age, Mums?" "I don't know, Dolly. Your father only said their name was Rose, and not another word about them." "There's a little girl, anyway," asserted Trudy; "they took in a big doll's carriage some time ago."
And of all letters that which Jane wrote there! But he's waiting and listening " "Are we to go downstairs, Mums?" asked Ethel. "He's waiting for you there," said Mrs. Chaffery. She held a dismal little oil lamp, and they descended a tenebrous spiral structure into an underground breakfast-room lit by gas that shone through a partially frosted globe with cut-glass stars.
"I shall have a better night if I don't need to rack my brain thinking over what might have happened." "Oh, all right!" sighed Ellen, and sat down again. "You're a grand safety valve, you know, Mums, because I can talk to you, and be sure that whatever I say will be locked up in your strong box.
"I told you before I started, I thought I was in for an exciting job. It wasn't only that Mr. Sands is a sort of celebrity, and everyone has been talking of Mrs. Sands as a beauty. It was the man himself gave me a kind of thrilled feeling the minute I saw him. Mums, Roger Sands is the sort I could fall in love with, if I was the falling-in-love type. He's strong and silent.
I notice you are a swell dresser also, and a pleasant conversationalist; in fact, have all the requirements if I'm not mistaken." "What requirements?" asked my young friend. "Say, young man," the stranger answered, "I can put you wise to something that will bring you the quickest returns for the least labor you ever struck, but 'mums the word."
"You don't mean to say you'll call them by those names?" "Yes, yes. I always have my own way with people, as you know." "Indeed I do. Oh, come along, you queer creature. Here's the darling mums. Mater dearest, here is Maggie Howland." "Delighted to see you, my dear," said Mrs. Tristram. "I hope you are not tired after your journey from town." "Not in the least, thank you, Mrs.
"Office, dear, not shop.... Is he Does he get a big salary?" "Why, mums, I'm sure I haven't the slightest idea! How should I know?" "Well, I just asked.... Will you put on your pink-and-white crêpe?" "Don't you think the brown silk would be better?" "Why, Una, I want you to look your prettiest! You must make all the impression you can." "Well, perhaps I'd better," Una said, demurely.
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