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"Now I know it's you, sure enough. He took that up when he wa'n't hardly out o' pinafores," she said to Lydia. "What?" Lydia managed, through her anger at him. "Comparin' everything with his first wife. Where'd he get it, mother?"
"Too like a pinafore, eh?" said he, with a sly laugh. "I don't think I ought to wear pinafores now," I said, in a grave and injured tone. "Leo Damer doesn't, and he's not much older than I am. But I think," I added, candidly, "he rather does as he likes, because he's got nobody to look after him." The parson laughed, and then gave a heavy sigh.
He had been lying in a puddle, and, like little Fay, he preferred "a dly place." Meanwhile, at Wren's End the washing had taken a long time to count and to divide. There seemed a positively endless number of little smocks and frocks and petticoats and pinafores, and Meg wanted to keep them all for Mrs. This was quite true. She could iron very well, as she did everything she undertook to do.
I should dearly like to be present when he makes his first steps upon this earth; but Macumer tells me that even precocious infants hardly walk at ten months. We shall have some good gossips there, and "cut pinafores," as the Blois folk say. I shall see whether a child, as the saying goes, spoils the pattern. P. S. If you deign to reply from your maternal heights, address to Chantepleurs.
I asked the concierge if the general methods of Pestalozzi were still used in the schools of Yverdon, "Mais certainement!" she replied as we went into a room where twenty to thirty girls of ten years were studying. The children were nice, clean, pleasant, stolid little things with braided hair and pinafores.
There was always plenty of excitement where she was always that same disturbing air! Even with her pigtails and pinafores, one could see the woman in her eyes. But she was a provoking little creature, always dreaming of impossible romances. Her father had his hands full." "As her husband will have, poor devil! If he's man enough to hold her, all right.
So they put the baskets down on the ground and began to fill their pinafores, and it was not long before their pinafores were full, too. 'Now we shall go home, said Lina. 'Yes, now we shall go home, said Aina. Both girls took a basket in one hand and held up her apron in the other and then turned to go home. But that was easier said than done.
But the Belgians appeared to set great store by these playthings. Behind each of them was a mixed group of soldiers Garde Civique, gendarmes and burgher volunteers. These latter mainly carried shotguns and wore floppy blue caps and long blue blouses, which buttoned down their backs with big horn buttons, like little girls' pinafores.
She drew her hat to one side to keep the sun out of her eyes as she walked. Waldo looked at her so intently that he stumbled over the bushes. Yes, this was his little Lyndall who had worn the check pinafores; he saw it now, and he walked closer beside her. They reached the next camp.
There were fourteen of them in all, some with shoes, some without; some in pinafores without jackets, others in jackets without pinafores, and one in scarce anything at all.
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