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Then, seized by an overwhelming anxiety, which she would not permit herself to put into a definite fear, she shook the dog impatiently and started down the Lane. It was full of shadows now, which the one gas street lamp deepened rather than dispersed, and she did not see a woman approaching until she had run against her. Then she looked up and exclaimed, "Oh, Posy Jane! You just gettin' home?
Why, you can 'most reach acrost from one side to the other. Me an' Billy has often tried. It's got the loveliest crook in it, right here where we be; an' one side runs out one way an' t'other toward the river. Why, grandpa, Posy Jane says onct onct, 'fore anybody here was livin', the Lane was a cow-path an' the cows was drove down it to the river to drink.
'Did you go talking about that Posy again? asked Kitty, bending diligently over her work. 'We always talk about her, answered Meg, 'every day. Mrs Blossom's watching for her to go by all day long, you know. 'She'll never go by, said Kitty shortly. 'Oh, she's certain sure to go by some day, cried Meg. 'Mrs Blossom asks God to let her go by, every day of her life; and He's positive to do it.
"He might be sick, honey, or somethin' like that, but not o' free will. Old Simon Beck'll never forsake the 'light o' his eyes, as I've heard him call you, time an' again." "Don't you fret, child," continued Posy Jane. "Ain't you the 'Queen of Elbow Lane'? Ain't all of us, round about, fond of you an' proud of you, same's if you was a real queen, indeed?
"Rosie Posy," he said, clucking into his cheek with his tongue and moving away through the pink-shaded twilight. At the door to the whitely glittering bathroom she called to him again, softly; he turning. "What'll you bet, Roody, that I get my biggest wish as soon as I got the gray roadster and the Belgian check?" "Women's nonsense!" said Mr.
Of late, though, he had begun to show a slight inclination to go off on expeditions with other boys, in which girls were not included. But this was accepted by his sisters as a natural course of events, for of course, if King did it, it must be all right. Next to Kingdon in the swing sat the baby, Rosamond, who was five years old, and who was always called Rosy Posy.
"Miss Posy" had come down to Mrs Baxter somewhat in a fright, and hence this letter had been written.
The sun slipped lower in a crimson ball, and a flood of crimson light broke through the purple and gold for a moment and left a thin, clear line of flame behind. "Dere!" exclaimed Sam pointing excitedly. "Dat's like de posy. I kin see thet all right!" And Michael rested on his oars and looked back at the sunset, well pleased with this day's work.
But he managed to free himself, and stood towering above the terror-stricken girls, who now knelt at his feet and begged for mercy. "Spare us!" moaned Kit. "We are but lorn damsels who seek food and shelter!" "Me wants a selter, too," announced Rosy Posy, joining the others, and clasping her little fat hands as they did. "What is a selter?"
Fielding stopped smoking, his cigar in mid-air, and stared with a scowl at the child; but Eleanor, delighted to have found the Bishop, saw only him. A shower of crushed blossoms fell over his knees. "I ran away from Aunt Basha. I brought you a posy for 'Good-mornin'," she said. The Bishop, collecting the plunder, expressed gratitude.
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