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"Well, why string it out? I've give you the facts. And my lands! Will you look at that clock now? Here's the morning gone and this room still looking like the inside of a sheep-herder's wagon! Oh, yes, and when Hetty was up here this time that she wouldn't wear my riding pants down, she says. 'Not only that, but I'm scrupulously careful in all ways.
"Nothing like making a good impression, from the start, on the pretty stranger," he added. "Eh?" "Just my luck!" murmured Harry, with a tragic air. "Oh, you silly boys!" laughed Belle. She hastened up the stairs to the room where Inez as resting, the lace trailing from the half-opened valise. "Oh, you have it back my satchel!" gasped a Spanish girl. "Oh, if ze papairs are only safe!"
"Oh, Mr Wentworth if you would excuse my nightcap," said Mrs Hadwin "I am so shaken and all of a tremble with that noise; I couldn't help thinking it must be a murder at the least," said the little old lady; "but I never could believe that there was anything between you and Sarah, you may go away; I should like to talk to Mr Wentworth by himself," said Mrs Hadwin, suddenly remembering that Mr Wentworth's character must not be discussed in the presence of even her favourite maid.
So cutting was his speaking tone Each phrase snipped off a button, So sharp his words, they have been known To carve a leg of mutton; He shaved himself with sentences, And when he went to dances, He made Oh shocking tendencies! Deep holes with piercing glances.
Oh, will the doctor no come soon!" and when Grace looked into Geordie's face she began to share Elsie's fears. Presently Jean came bounding back in delight with her recovered treasure to lay it in Geordie's hands. He looked at the gaily-bound book with his most pleased smile, and then glancing at Jean proudly, he said, "Eh, Jean, but ye'll be learnin' to be a grand scholar.
The fact that he was secretly in love with Marjorie Locke, and had allowed himself to believe that she rather liked him, was no reason why she should wait in Manila merely because he had told her that he expected to be in that city on a certain date. "Oh, that reminds me!" said Wilkins suddenly, as he ran in behind the railing again. "Look here! I've a letter for you.
"Oh, but you've got to find it," protested Grace, while Betty and Amy looked worried. "We can't stay here all night, and it may be a dozen miles to the nearest garage." "I know that just as well as you do," grumbled Mollie. "But if I can't, I can't, that's all." By this time they had reached the road and Mollie went straight to the car.
"You are a kind child." A long pause I, glued in such anxiety to the odious sofa; you know how impossible it is for me to sit up in such well-bred fashion. Oh, mother, is it possible for any one to forget herself thus? Suddenly I said, "I can't stay here on this sofa any longer," and jumped up. "Well," said he, "make yourself comfortable;" and with that I flew into his arms.
I did not think she could get the lid off." "She did, and somehow the case got kicked under the bed." "Naughty Nella!" said the contessa. "Oh, no," said Quarles. "Natural Nella. May I wash my hands?" Well, we had tea with the contessa, and I saw the smile which rewarded Christopher Quarles. I suppose he had earned it. "When did you first think of the child?" I asked him afterwards.
"Oh," cried Federigo Boromeo, "what a welcome visit is this. You have good news for me, I am sure." "Good news! What good news can you expect from such as I?" "That God has touched your heart, and would make you His own." "God! God! If I could but see Him! If He be such as they say, what do you suppose that He can do with me?"
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