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"Toto isn't a brute," replied Dorothy, "but at home Uncle Henry has to whip him sometimes for chasing the chickens. Now look here, Toto," she added, holding up her finger and speaking sternly to him, "you've got to understand that Billina is one of my dearest friends, and musn't be hurt now or ever." Toto wagged his tail as if he understood.
"Those are my baking-tins, ready for use; now you've got them wet, and I shall have to go all over them again." "How will you go, Ester? On foot? They look pretty greasy; you'll slip." "I wish you would go up stairs. I'd rather wash dishes all the forenoon than have you in the way." "Birdie," said Sadie gravely, "you and I musn't go near Auntie Essie again.
"Toney, I shall come to see you again, and you must tell me more about the family and these people about here; you must tell me everything." "You musn't tell anybody I tell you anyting. De judge mity quare man; he don't like for people to know all I knows." The judge rode up, and Toney with great respect arose and saluted him. "Ah!" said he, "you have found this old hermit, have you?
The eyes of the Lord, you know, were looking at me, and I tumbled about, and thought maybe it wasn't right, and pretty soon I knew it wasn't, and then I asked the Lord Jesus to forgive me, and I didn't feel much better; and then I got up and thought I'd burn the mean thing up in the candle, and then I thought I musn't, 'cause it wasn't mine; and by that time I hated it, and didn't want it to be mine; and then after awhile I thought I ought to bring it to you, but I didn't want to, but I thought I ought to, and there 'tis."
'A whistler, said he, 'sure's yer born. He ain't wuth a bag o' beans. But don't ye never let on. When ye git licked ye musn't never fin' fault. If anybody asks ye 'bout him tell 'em he's all ye expected. We stood waiting a moment for the horse to recover himself. A team was nearing us. 'There's Bob Dean, Uncle Eb whispered. 'The durn scalawag! Don't ye say a word now.
"Yes, I know you can fix lots of things, Koku," Tom went on, kindly enough. "But you musn't forget what enormous strength you have. That's the reason I sent you to take the engine out of the airship. You can lift it without using the chain hoist, and I can't get the chain hoist fast unless I remove all the superstructure. I don't want to do that. Did you get the engine out?" "Not quite.
"I suppose I musn't tell why I came to give quite a big sum in francs for this?" she went on, tapping her closed lips with her closed fan, and cocking her eye at us all like a parrot wanting to be coaxed to talk. "It's a queer story." I didn't want to hear her anecdote, especially as I saw she wanted to tell it. What I did want was to see that pendant again.
Do you attend Mrs. Russell's party?" Mary replied in the affirmative, and the next moment he was gone. Half an hour after, Henry, too, departed, saying to Mary as he went out, "You musn't fail to be at Mrs. Russell's, for I shall only go for the sake of seeing you. Truth, upon my honor, what little I have," he continued, as Mary's eyes flashed forth her entire disbelief of what he said.
"I say!" cried Jennie, thoroughly alarmed. "We musn't let her stay there and nurse that young one. Why! what ever would we do if Ruthie Fielding didn't graduate?" "The class would be without a head," declared Mercy. "It would be without a heart, at least and a great, big one overflowing with love and tenderness," cried Nettie Parsons, wiping her eyes.
"He has chucked me!" stammered Madame Foucault. "And he's the last. I have no one now!" She rolled over in the most grotesque manner, kicking up her legs, with a fresh outburst of sobs. Sophia felt quite ashamed for her. "Come and lie down. Come now!" she said, with a touch of sharpness. "You musn't lie there like that." Madame Foucault's behaviour was really too outrageous.
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