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"It's all over, and the baby's named for his Poppa!" His arm went about me, an arm like a steel bar. Half led, half carried, I went staggering on beside him like a drunken man, clutching a rosary and a packet of love-letters. The streets were still dark and deserted, the whole town slept.
He thinks he'll ask him after dinner. He says he doesn't want poppa to think he's posing. I don't know what he means." Mrs. Kenton did not speak at once. Her bitterest mortification was not for herself, but for the simple and tender father-soul which had been so tried already. She did not know how he would bear it, the disappointment, and the cruel hurt to his pride.
The tears ran silently down Ellen's cheeks, and her lips twitched a little between these words and the next; she spoke as if it were still of her father, but her mother understood. "If he ever does say so, don't you speak a word to me, momma; and don't you let poppa." "No; indeed I won't," her mother promised. "Have we ever interfered, Ellen? Have we ever tried to control you?"
Murray writes in a vein of pretty lofty sentiment, while Mr. Baedeker is about as interesting as a directory. Now where the right emotion is included at the price I don't see the use of momma, but when it's a question of Baedeker we might turn her on. See?" "Poppa," I replied with emotion, "you will both be invaluable. I will bid you good-night.
Kenton held herself stormily in, and he continued: "I know that he translated for us before the magistrate, but the magistrate could speak a little English, and when he saw poppa he saw that it was all right, anyway. I don't want to say anything against Mr. Breckon, and I think he behaved as well any one could; but if Ellen is going to marry him out of gratitude for saving me " Mrs.
Then she added: "And you know poppa ain't much on religion." "Well now that's what I call a genuine fact, the sort I was talking about," Mr. Flack replied. Whereupon he at last took himself off, repeating that he would come in two days later, at 3.15 sharp.
But she only said, "I don't believe Poppa could take that in the wrong way if you told him." Breckon stared. "Yes your father! What would he say?" "I can't tell you. But I'm sure he would know what you meant." "And you," he pursued, "what should YOU say?" "I? I never thought about such a thing. You mustn't ask me, if you're serious; and if you're not " "But I am; I am deeply serious.
She declared on this occasion that she would be perfectly happy in the coach with the dear horses, and poppa had to resort to extreme measures. "Please yourself, Augusta," he said. "Your lightest whim is law to me, and you know it. But I'm going to hate standing up in that photograph all alone with my only child, like any widower." "Alexander!" exclaimed momma at once. "What a dreadful idea!
"She didn't know I was here." "Didn't know What she doin' out here, then?" "She and Poppa had a turble quar'l.
She broke right into her mother's description of a harrowing lumbago she had suffered from: it was that bad she couldn't neither lay nor set that is to say, comfortable. Kedzie's own new-fangled pronunciations and phrases fell from her mind, and she spoke in purest Nimrim: "Listen, momma and poppa. I'm in a peck of trouble, and maybe you can help me out." "Is it money?" Adna wailed, sepulchrally.
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