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There were some of the young ladies, though, for whom I felt no liking Miss Pearl Pennington, who plays light leads, and her friend, Miss Laura Dixon, the ingenue." "They were in vaudeville until recently," remarked Alice. "So Russ told me. Miss Pennington seemed very pretty." "Passably so," agreed Mr. DeVere. "Well, our living problem is solved for us, anyway. Now I must study my new part.
But it was not her nature to resent such things, and she concluded that Guy thought Daisy better adapted for the part than herself. "What part will you take?" Daisy went on. "Mr. Martin told me to ask you and arrange for you." Daisy's manner showed such undue importance and ostentatious authority that Jack Pennington spoke up. "Are you assistant chairman, Miss Dow?" "Mr.
"Uncle Seth always grows restless when some other man is the leader," Shirley volunteered with a mischievous glance at Pennington. "He was the Great Pooh-Bah of the lumber-trade back in Michigan, but out here he has to play second fiddle. Don't you, Nunky-dunk?" "I'm afraid I do, my dear," the Colonel admitted with his best air of hearty expansiveness. "I'm afraid I do. However, Mr.
Mrs. Pennington had recourse to her handkerchief. Uncle Bob uncrossed his knees and sat bolt upright. "Madame," he exclaimed, "I am sorry for your distress, whatever its cause, but let me assure you, you are under some grave mistake. My niece has met no one clandestinely, and is incapable of deceit and treachery." "Do I understand then that it was with your connivance?"
Cranceford returned home early in the afternoon, she told the Major, whom she found pacing up and down the long porch, that Pennington was up and walking about the house. She told him, also, that he was resolved upon taking Louise to Alabama, and added that she herself would oppose this determination up to the very moment of departure. The Major grunted. "What right have you to do that?" he asked.
There was no return fire just then from that point, and the smoke lifted a little more. Above the crash of the battle which raged fiercely on either flank, they heard the notes of a trumpet rising, loud, clear, and distinct from all other sounds. Dick knew that it was a rallying call, and then he heard Pennington utter a wild shout. "I see him! I see him!" he cried. "It's old Stonewall himself!
Every thing in the town filled him with astonishment; but the view of the shipping, which was entirely new, particularly attracted his eye, and interested him like the imaginary spectacles of magic. When the first emotions of his pleasure and wonder had subsided, he applied to Mr. Pennington to procure him materials for painting.
Margaret Elizabeth could talk, and more than this she could look bewitching, and did, when she slipped out of her long coat, and with many graceful upward motions, removed her hat and fluffed her hair. She would make tea, she loved to, in fact she seemed bent upon luring Augustus away from the fire and Mrs. Pennington.
Pennington keep the secret she thought it great fun; and I really was a great hand to do little chores and keep the cats in subjection too. I made mistakes in grammar and dropped my g's on purpose it was such fun to see you wince when I did it.
Pennington!" and Bess tried to tilt her chin up in the air with an assumption of dignity that ill sat upon her, the said chin being of the plump variety which lends itself but poorly to the said tilting. "Cora, are you there?" asked the voice of Mrs. Kimball from the porch. "Yes, Mother. I was just showing the girls the new hairpins. We are going to the station directly."
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