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"I wash my hands of the pair." "She washes her hands of the pair, so she don't count," said Diana. "Is we to have a holiday, Uncle William? I is, but is Orion, too? That's the 'portant part," she added. "I have no objection," said Miss Ramsay, who thought it best to close this scene as quickly as possible.
"What a silly little boy you is!" she said. "We has come for most solemn, 'portant business. I is Diana the gweat Diana what lived years and years ago and you is Orion. I is the gweatest huntwess in all the world, and I's going to shoot Aunt Jane and Miss Wamsay. Now, come 'long, Orion, and let's look for the bow and arrow."
I'se sometin' berry 'portant for de gemman. Hol' on, I say," and she dashed across the plank, nearly knocking Ted down in her headlong haste. "Whar is 'ee?" she gasped, and continued, "Leg-go, I tell ye. Le' me be," as Ted seized her arm, asking what she wanted, and if she was going back to Jacksonville. "No; leg-go, I tell you. I wants the man from de Norf, what comed to see Miss Dory.
She simpered. She had won him at last. "Waitin' to walk to the school with me, William?" she said. He still loitered. "You're awful early." "Am I? I thought I was late. I meant to be late. I don't want to be too early. I'm the most 'portant person, and I want to walk in after the others, then they'll all look at me." She tossed her tightly-wrought curls.
The purchasers of these medals were also presented with a card, of which the following is a verbatim transcript, capitals, italics, and all: 'Quiconque, portant une médaille miraculeuse, recite avec piété cette invocation, se trouve placé sous la protection spéciale de la Mère de Dieu; c'est une promesse de Marie Elle Même.
A very faint mist of smoke hung before his face which had an extraordinary aspect, as if the lower jaw had come unhinged. "Not missed!" he croaked, hoarsely, from the depths of a dry throat. This sinister sound loosened the spell that had fallen on General D'Hubert's senses. "Yes, missed a bout portant," he heard himself saying, almost before he had recovered the full command of his faculties.
"The shot must have been fired a bout portant, because it burned the eyebrows and lashes entirely. The assassin must have passed his pistol across your breast." Prisoner. "The shot was not fired so close; I am convinced of it: professional gentlemen will prove it." Judge. "That is what you pretend, because you understand perfectly the consequences of admitting the fact.
How are you, nursey?" "Very well," replied nurse, "and glad to see you again." "And how is Marjorie? Kiss me, Marjorie." She snatched up her little sister somewhat roughly. "Don't make the darling cry," said nurse. "All right," replied Pen. "Sit down, baby; I have no time to 'tend you. Nursey, when I was at the sea I was a very 'portant person." "Were you indeed. Miss Pen?
"Well, yer see," said Sam, proceeding gravely to wash down Haley's pony, "I 'se 'quired what yer may call a habit o' bobservation, Andy. It's a very 'portant habit, Andy; and I 'commend yer to be cultivatin' it, now yer young. Hist up that hind foot, Andy. Yer see, Andy, it's bobservation makes all de difference in niggers.
"But the heat of the day, and the child being so young," put in Mr. Dolman. "I'd be much happier if I had Orion with me," continued Diana, "and it's 'portant my being happy; isn't it, Uncle William? P'ease, Uncle William, say that Orion may have a holiday." "I will give leave if your aunt and Miss Ramsay will," he replied. "Oh, don't ask me!" said Mrs. Dolman, rising hastily as she spoke.
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