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"To be married to Lord Mortimer, and go and live in an Abbey," said Mary Pinfall, who sat on a box with a cracker in one hand, and the third volume of her old novel in the other. The girls shouted. "That means you'd like a real good husband, a Tom, or a Dick, or a Harry," said Kate Sencerbox. "Lord Mortimers don't grow in this country. We must take the kind that do.
Mary Pinfall slid her romance into the pocket of her waterproof; Matilda Meane swallowed her last mouthful of the four cream-cakes which she had valorously demolished without assistance, and hastily washed her hands at the faucet; Kate and Elise and Grace brushed by her with a sniff of generous contempt. In two minutes, the wheels and feeds were buzzing and clicking again.
"Aggravations are as good as anything to laugh at, if you only know how," Bel Bree said. "They're always handy, at any rate," said Elise. "I thought 'aggravate' meant making worse than it is," said quiet little Mary Pinfall. "Just it, Molly!" answered Bel Bree, quick as a flash.
Of those things my recollection is indistinct; for I was straining my eyes towards the groups of settlers inside the walls. When I looked back to the conferring leaders the silence was so intense a pinfall could have been heard. The keys of the fort were being handed to the Nor'-Westers and the Hudson's Bay men had turned away their faces that they might not see.
The hint of reasonable limit, and the word of trust, were better than lock and law. "How nice this is!" said Mary Pinfall, as Bel put a hot muffin, mellow with sweet butter, upon her plate. "If Matilda Meane only knew which side and where bread was buttered! She's living on 'relief, yet; and she buys cream-cakes for dinner, and peanuts for tea! But, Bel, what were you up-stairs for?
"If it was her daughter, she should not think she was half married." Mrs. Megilp put it more shrewdly than she had intended. Desire and Christopher Kirkbright were very sure they had not been "half married." It was not the world's half marriage that they had stood up there together for. Elise Mokey and Mary Pinfall came in one evening to see Bel Bree and Kate.
"Unveil the statue, Delrose," whispered Lord Rivers; for society was watching and listening with itching ears for more, and a pinfall could have been heard. "Unveil her, she'll let you, if she have any charms to show," he continued lazily.
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