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As Patty suspected, it was Uncle Robert dressed up to represent the old Saint, with flowing white hair and beard and a gilt paper halo. He wore a long white robe with red hearts dotted all over it, and carried a gilt bow and arrow. He carried also a pack or pouch full of valentines which he distributed to the guests.
"But there's one that's rather funny. It was read in class about a peasant that lost his donkey. I'll find it"; and she rummaged through the pile. Patty read it soberly, and Lady Clara watched her with a shade of disappointment. "Don't you think it's pretty good?" she asked. "Yes; I think it's one of the best things I ever read." "You never even smiled!" "My dear child, it isn't funny."
She pondered a moment, and then returned, "Lucille Carter takes astronomy; she could tell you about him." "So she does. I'd forgotten it"; and Patty swung off toward Lucille's room. She found a number of girls sitting around on the various pieces of furniture, eating fudge and discussing the tragedies of one Maeterlinck. "What's this?" said Patty. "A party?"
This he bore quietly, though he seemed to feel it with deep sorrow that even the members of his own family kept aloof from him. 'Patty' never once showed herself in the twenty-two years; nor any of her children, except the youngest son, who came to see his father once. The neglect thus shown long preyed upon his mind, till it found vent at last in a sublime burst of poetry:
These, and far worse, were becoming public property; and even personal fabrications in regard to the faculty, intended solely for undergraduate consumption, were reaching the ears of the faculty themselves. One day Patty dropped into an under-classman's room on some committee work, and she found the children, in the manner of their elders, regaling themselves on dainty bits of college gossip.
Jones's success; and she had the satisfaction of having put a stop to three or four great evils in the parish of Weston, without spending a shilling in doing it. Patty Smart and Jenny Rose were thought to be the two best managers in the parish. They both told Mrs. Jones, that the poor would get the coarse pieces of meat cheaper, if the gentlefolks did not buy them for soups and gravy. Mrs.
Elise gave one glance at Patty's white, scared face and one glance At Nurse Winnie's red, frightened face, and then she herself began To scream. "Stop that, Elise!" Patty cried, "it's bad enough to have my baby kidnapped, without your yelling like a Comanche! Hush, I tell you!" But Elise wouldn't, or couldn't hush.
I have got a little sister, who is at boarding-school, not very far from here, and, as I keep a decent tongue in my head when I am talking with my little Patty, and expect others to do as much, sure I may try and do as much by you." The chaplain was loud in his praises of Harry to his aunt, the old Baroness. She liked to hear him praised.
I then spoke to her, and asked divers questions, as if she had really been Patty and understood me; in return of which she uttered a language I had no idea of, though in the most musical tone, and with the sweetest accent I ever heard. It grieved me I could not understand her.
A big touring car was visible at a distance, and in a moment Patty saw that Farnsworth himself was driving it. "Hooray!" he called, as he came nearer, and Mona, who sat beside him, cried out, "Oh, Patty, Patty! Are you safe?" "Safe?
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