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Updated: May 22, 2025
The big low attic was splendid for rainy-day play; but the very, very nicest of all the nice things at the farm was Mary White. Mary was nine years and she had lived on the farm all her life. She knew all the good places to play. She could call every animal on the farm by name. She could make up the most delightful games. What a splendid playmate she was!
Tell the Little Playmate!" she said, as simply and sweetly as if she had been coaxing me to whisper to her some lightest childish secret of our plays together in the old Red Tower. I was silent for a space, and then, spurred by the thought of the swiftly passing time, the words were wrenched out of me.
Men ran to lift the calf's head, and the owner of the axe came up to examine the edge of his weapon. I looked about. The eyes of the Lady Ysolinde were aflame with pleasure, but, on the other hand, the Little Playmate was crimson with shame. Tears stood in her beautiful eyes. She marched straight up to meet me, and, clinching her hands, she said; "Oh, I hate you !"
"'He's vice-consul, added the professor, triumphantly. "'He'll make a good one, I observed. I knew Jack. I pitied his consul. "So we chatted on about my old playmate, until Freda, the red-cheeked maid, brought coffee, and the professor lighted a cigar, with a little bow to his daughter. "'Of course, you don't smoke, she said to me, with a glimmer of malice in her eyes.
The operation seemed to excite intense interest amongst the surrounding soldiers, who followed with their eyes each clip of the shears and movement of the esquilador's agile fingers, and occasionally encouraged the patient, their constant companion and playmate both in quarters and the field, by expressions of sympathy and affection.
Did no playmate, no older intimate, not one of your age striving for the bar, ever whisper to you that I had been deceived, and that you, my only comfort, were the fruit of the deception?" "No, sir." Perry's tears seemed to dry in the recollection. "We were both gentlemen at least, after we reached this world. No one ever insulted me nor you!
She will bring Juba, and Blanche is very partial to Juba, though she does scratch him." "Very well, my dear, you shall have your playmate, and I will go by myself." Kenelm stood aghast. "You will not go, Miss Mordaunt; Mrs. Braefield will be so disappointed. And if you don't go, whom shall I have to talk to? I don't like grown-up people better than you do." "You are going?" "Certainly."
Oh again, oh again! to enjoy the freedom of air with the bird, and the glow of the sun with the lizard; to sport through the blooms of the earth, Nature's playmate and darling; to face, in the forest and desert, the pard and the lion, Nature's bravest and fiercest, her firstborn, the heir of her realm, with the rest of her children for slaves!"
My mother smiled as she stood in the door and watched us go. She had always trusted us, and we seldom disobeyed her. But this time we had our playmate with us, and the had been in the habit of having her own way. As she was a little older than we were, we thought that what she said or did was all right.
To this new home he brought his old playmate Dollie as his wife, and she lovingly and carefully tended her husband's blind mother so long as Mistress Jüchziger needed her ministrations.
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