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'I did not let mother have any, he said, 'though I took some myself. But the bonds are different. You're getting the last that will be sold at par. In three days they will be placed before the public at 102 1/2 and interest." "I was well pleased when I left Mr. Beverly's office. In a few days I was still more pleased to learn that I could sell my Petunia sixes for 104 if so wished.
Petunia and I like him. I think he's what you said our Bridget was, a rough damson." "Not damson; diamond, dear." "Oh, yes. It was damson preserve Mrs. Smalley had for supper last night. I forgot. Petunia told me to say damson; she makes so many mistakes." They heard the "rough diamond" returning. He seemed to be in a hurry.
"Of course, you guessed the letter and it was dear to have you do it, but we both know it is impossible. Nobody must hear of it, and the telling you has been the best I could get out of it anyway. Jasper, take my compliments to Petunia, this chicken is perfection!" That eighth wonder of the world which got lost was something even more mysterious than the Sphinx.
She could see herself as she came down the room; her knitted silk sport's coat, bright petunia, flaming; thick black squares of her bobbed hair hanging over eyebrows and ears. And behind, the four women's heads turning on fat necks to look at her, reflected. Gwinnie's letter was there, stuck up on the mantel-piece.
"You haven't been wandering off by yourself again?" she asked reproachfully. "Oh, it is quite safe, mamma," replied Betty, impatiently. "I didn't meet a soul except free Levi." "Your father wouldn't like it, my dear," returned Mrs. Ambler, in the tone in which she might have said, "it is forbidden in the Scriptures," and she added after a moment, "but where is Petunia?
The August moon was rising gloriously behind the silver bar of the horizon. From the beach below the bluff came the light laughter of a group of summer young folk, strolling from the hotel to the post-office by the shore route. Babbie, who had received permission to sit up and see the moon rise, was perched upon the other end of the bench, Petunia in her arms.
Methusaleh, "Petunia and I know him better than you do, Mamma; we've had more chances to get to get acquainted." Perhaps an hour later there was another knock at the kitchen door. Mrs. Armstrong, when she opened it, found her landlord standing there, one of his largest windmills a toy at least three feet high in his arms.
The elder lady had sat down in a gilt chair, Louis Fourteenth I should say, with a striped rep of the colour of a petunia; and I really don't know don't smile, Smith what induced me to lead her to it by the finger-tips, bending over her hand for a moment as she sat down.
It might make her too too Oh, what ARE those things you make, Uncle Jed? In the shop, I mean." "Eh? Windmills?" "No. The others those you tell the wind with. I know vanes. It might make Petunia too vain. That's what Mamma said I mustn't be when I had my new coat, the one with the fur, you know." She trotted off. Jed busied himself with the chowder.
"Yes, I suppose so," answered Mother Mayberry, as she picked up little Hoover, who was nodding like a top-heavy petunia in a breeze, and stretched him across her lap for a nap. "But as long as she have got the spanking of man sprouts from they one to ten years she oughter make out to get in a vote to suit herself, as time comes along, especially if she have picked her husband right."
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