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Blair's to see if Willie was able to come. "Bless, you, ma'am," said that good lady, "you couldn't keep him back if you tried. He's that set on going. I'll be there to bring him home safely." "Well," said Miss Elton, "he looks much better than when I first saw him. You are better, are you not, Willie?" turning to the child. "Yes, please'm," answered Willie, with sparkling eyes.
"How is my little friend Willie to-day?" she asked. "Please'm, 'e's gittin' better now 'e don't 'ave to come an' stay out 'ere with me," was the answer. Bob could always find his tongue when any one asked him about Willie. "I'm so glad," said Miss Elton. "I want him to come to the treat." "Yes," said Bob, "'e ants to come." "Do you always sweep this crossing?" she inquired.
First they thought they would like one thing and then another, but at last decided upon some meat pies, which, nicely arranged in the window, looked very tempting to the hungry boys. Mrs. Blair was delighted to hear of their success. Handing her the change, Bob said "Please'm, will yer mind this money for me?" He had long before paid her the remaining three-pence that he owed.
She hoped Honey-Sweet was in that bundle though she knew it was too small. "Mommer sent me," said the saddened Peggy with the downcast eyes, "to ask you ladies, please'm, not to come home to-day." "Is Lois worse?" was Miss Dorcas's anxious question. "No'm.
At length the rain drove them in and they stood in the drawing-room with anxious faces, while two servants, under directions from Carl, searched the house for Goldie. "If you please'm," stammered the housemaid, rushing rather unconventionally into the drawing-room, "cook says she thinks Goldie must be on the roof, in the vane." "On the roof in the vane?" exclaimed Mrs Ebag, pale. "In the vane?"
A visit from her would be a kindness to a sick child and an anxious mother. "It is Anne Lewis that is wanted," said Miss Farlow. "I don't know about letting her go. Visiting interferes with the daily tasks. I think it better not to " "Please'm," entreated the bearer of the note, hastening to ward off a refusal, "do, please'm, let the little girl come. He's that fractious he has us all wore out.
It was a snowy and sleety April morning, and she had already had experience of its rigour. 'I said a four-wheeler. 'Please'm, there wasn't one, Sarah defended herself. 'None on the stand, lady, said the cabman brightly. 'You'll never get a four-wheeler on a day like this. Aunt Annie raised her veil and looked at her sister.
An' he'll say to her: 'Susan, or whatever-her-name-is, them biscuits is all right in their way, but I wisht I had a mouthful o' bread like mother used to make. An' the poor creature'll wear the life out o' her, tryin' to please'm, an' reach my top-notch, an' never succeed, an' all the time Say, Sammy, gather up the rest o' the stuff, like a good fella, an' shove it onto the dumb-waiter, so's it can go down with the sw There's the whistle now!
The clearing resounded with phrases of intricate politeness: "Thank you to trouble you fer one them pickles, Si." "Please'm gi' me a little your tongue, Miz Dade." "Reach me some more bread, if you don't care whut you do, Quin." Beyond the long tables little private parties sat here and there, ranged around red table-cloths, flat on the ground, stuffing, greasy-fingered, hospitable, happy.
And what's this I hear of your throwing down Phil completely, and setting up a new young man?" "Please'm, you never said I wasn'ter," Susan laughed. "No, indeed I never did! You couldn't do a more sensible thing!" "Oh, Aunt Jo!" The title was only by courtesy. "I thought you felt that every woman ought to have a profession!" "A means of livelihood, my dear, not a profession necessarily!
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