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"Ah, Sweetheart," said her mother, laughing, "you have little cause to pin the dill and the verse over our door. None is likely to envy us, or to be ill disposed toward us." "O mother," said Nan, "I know it, but I thought it would be so nice to feel sure. O there is Dame Golding coming after some milk. Do you suppose she will have to stop?" "What nonsense!" said her mother.
The pity of it the pity of it! He was so nice. Why could not they be friends The night had fallen long since and they were nearing Florence. "Don't forget to change at Empoli," he said. "I will send my man on as far as that to look after you. Will you let me kiss you?" "Yes." He came over and sat on the seat by her side. "Don't be afraid.
"That's certainly a fine letter. It was nice of you to share it with me." "That's all right," said the boy. "Everyone is glad to read every other fellow's letter out here, whether he knows anything about the people or not. We get so few letters. The people at home send us candles and matches and kippers, as you see from the letter, and they send lots of cigarettes to my brother. I don't smoke.
Mrs. Harrington said it would have been strangled if I had not helped it. That was very nice, but how delightful it would be to save some real human person's life. Claude did not laugh at the odd medley in her speech, but answered, 'Well, those little things train you in readiness and kindness. 'Will they? said Phyllis, pressing on to express what had long been her earnest wish.
Barley was not an important crop at Aldington, the land was too stiff, but I had some fields which contained limestone, where good crops could be grown. Even there it was inclined to coarseness, but in dry seasons sometimes proved a very nice bright and thin-skinned sample.
"Yes oh yes," the young man responded, with precipitation. "We had a very nice polka, indeed." "Well," said Jane to herself, "I can talk about polkas and lots of other things." And she did. She held and entertained the young man for a full ten minutes. She found, after all, that he was in no degree constrained or backward, and she made him do himself justice. "Well, my dear," said Mrs.
"And we have been looking and looking for you. . . . But what is the matter with you?" she asked in wonder, glancing at his radiant, ecstatic face and eyes full of tears. "How strange you are, Andryusha!" "I am pleased, Tanya," said Kovrin, laying his hand on her shoulders. "I am more than pleased: I am happy. Tanya, darling Tanya, you are an extraordinary, nice creature.
'Yes, that'll be best, that'll be best, exclaimed Mrs. Higgins. 'Dear, 'ow 'ot it is! Run out into the garden, Louise. Nice little 'ouse, Mrs. Mumford. And Louise seems quite taken with you. She doesn't take to people very easy, either. Of course, you can give satisfactory references? I like to do things in a business-like way.
'No, dear Lady Sevenoaks, she can only marry one, don't you know; but the other is nice to go about with; and I believe it is the other she really likes. 'It is always the other that a woman likes, answered the dowager; 'I am madly in love with this Peruvian no, I think you said Cuban myself. I wish some good-natured creature would present him to me.
All these things, and hundreds of others of the same kind, would I put in my book, and at the end should be a list of all the hotels in Europe where, at the date of publication, the landlord was nice, for it is the character of the landlords which makes all the difference and that changes as do all human things.
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