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I chose one to which we did not subscribe, having an attractive cover, good type, and paper, and on the back of an old envelope, behind the counter, I scribbled: Perriton Maxwell, 116 Nassau Street, New York, and sent my story on its way. "Then I took a bold step, the first in my self-emancipation.
Aunt Euphemia raised her eyebrows and her lorgnette together. "I do not understand you, I fear. What the Tapps are by blood, I do not know. But they are not in society at all not at all!" "Not in society?" repeated Louise, puzzled indeed. "Scarcely. Of course, as Mrs. Perriton says, the way the cottagers are situated here at The Beaches, the Tapps must be treated with a certain friendliness.
One of the Ministers went to a window and opened it, and the cries outside became audible. "A King's Messenger! Make way for the King's Messenger!" The Premier turned quietly to Sir John. "Perriton Powers," he said. In another moment Perriton Powers stood before the Ministers. Bronzed by the tropic sun, his face was recognizable only by the assured glance of his eye.
The next day Sir Perriton Powers for the King had knighted him after breakfast stood again in the conservatory of the house in Carlton Terrace. "I have come for my reward," he said. "Do I get it?" "You do," said Angela. Sir Perriton clasped her in his arms. "On my way home," he said, "I was attacked by a lion. I tried to beat it " "Hush, dearest," she whispered, "let me take you to father."
We tried to get out of him where he had been, but he wouldn't tell. We had to almost muzzle Billy, or he would have accused him right there and then. And Billy has been savage over it ever since." "Really then," said Laura, "there is nothing sure about it." "Well, it is sure the car was a Perriton.
"That boarding school last winter completely spoiled her," complained the mother. "And I sent her to it because Sue Perriton and Alice Bozewell go there." "And I had a fine chance to get chummy with them!" snapped Cecile. "They were both seniors." "But really," Marian went on, "your entanglement with that movie actress is sure to make trouble for us, Ford. You might be a little more considerate.
And since then we have found out that Purt's is the only Perriton in town that isn't out of commission for the winter. You can talk as you please about it: If the police only knew what we know, sure thing Purt would be neck-deep in trouble right now!" The three girls of Central High and their boy friends had not come together on this stormy Saturday morning merely to feast on "pie and poetry."
A really remarkable young man, and so I told Mrs. Perriton just now. So brave of him to venture out in the lifeboat as a volunteer. "I have just been talking to his father. Quite a remarkable man I. Tapp. One of these rough diamonds, you know, Ernest. And he is so enthusiastic about Louise.
"I mean," said the earnest lad, "that I know a car that was out this afternoon without chains, and it was a seven-seater Perriton car just as this one that knocked down Chet's friend was." "It was a Perriton, I believe," murmured Lance. But Chetwood Belding said: "I don't know whether that poor fellow is a friend of mine or not. If I have to give Pa fifty dollars Whew!"
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