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He assented by continuing to walk with me, and I think we were both glad when we reached the house, and Prue came to meet us, saying: "Do you know I hoped you would bring Mr. Titbottom to dine?" Titbottom smiled gently, and answered: "He might have brought his spectacles with him, and have been a happier man for it." Prue looked a little puzzled.
Moor in the studio and Prue prepares another exhortation," said Sylvia, as her father woke, and taking his arm, they paced along the wide piazza that encircled the whole house. "Will father do me a little favor?" "That is all he lives for, dear." "Then his life is a very successful one;" and the girl folded her other hand over that already on his arm. Mr.
I tried to read in the Bible just now and I did not care for it one bit, or understand it one bit; I began to think I never should find anything to do me good in Malachi, or in any of the old prophets." "Suppose you read to me awhile not in the Bible, but in your Sunday-school book. You told Prue that it was fascinating. 'History of the Reformation, isn't it?" "To-night?
I declare, Sara, I've a great mind to move the whole lot of you down here, and take care of you myself. I would, too, if it wasn't for Polly; but she'd quarrel with the children all day long, and make life a burden." Sara laughed, but looked disappointed too. "I see it's not to be thought of now, Miss Prue; but I hoped I could work there, and indeed I don't know what there is to do here."
It would not trouble me to wear one dress all my life one color, as the flowers do; it should be a soft gray a cashmere, and when one was soiled or worn out I would have another like it and never spend any more thought about it. Aunt Prue loves gray she almost does that she spends no thought on dress.
"I'm glad you remember it so well! Be sure you say it to-night. And now you may go, Prue." Prue went accordingly, and Miss Tranter, resuming her knitting, returned to the bar, and took up her watchful position opposite the clock, there to remain patiently till closing time.
"I don't understand it, but it must be right, because you are so improved in every way. Ever since that wild trip up the river you have been growing quiet, lovable, and cheerful, and I really begin to hope that you will become like other people." "I only know that I am happy, Prue. Why it is so I cannot tell; but now I seldom have the old dissatisfied and restless feeling.
Prue says that brides are always beautiful, and I, who remember Prue herself upon her wedding-day how can I deny it? Truly, the gay Flora was lovely that summer morning, and the throng was happy in the old church. But it was very sad to me, altho I only suspected then what now I know.
The first sight of the house, though, decidedly tended to damp her pleasant anticipations, for there was not a light to be seen anywhere. All the windows were gaping wide to the storm, while from more than one a bedraggled curtain hung out wet and dirty. Dr. Trenire drove straight in to the stable-yard, expecting to have to groom down and stable Prue himself.
Then examine the sketch as it appears in Leigh Hunt's "Wishing Cap Papers," Thackeray's "Roundabout Papers," Curtis's "Potiphar Papers." You might include under this head such rare bits of prose as you cannot conveniently classify, as, for example, Dr. Brown's "Rab and His Friends," Curtis's "Prue and I." Now look a while at the uses of biography.
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