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It seemed to him the most wonderful epistle that ever emanated from any human hand. A faint scent of roses came from it to help the fascination. "I'll jest bet my head agin a big red apple," he soliloquized, "the woman that writ that's the purtiest girl in the State o' Wisconsin. I'll bet there's nothin' in Injianny to hold a candle to her, purty as Si thinks his Annabel is. And smart my!
"Out of the tail of my eye I see a fat lady start to faint, and when she's right in the middle of the faint, change her mind about it and do a back flip into a plumber's shop, the purtiest you ever seen. I see a policeman dodge out from behind a lamp-post as Emily approaches, and reach for his gun.
"She give me char-rge av th' owld eshtate, wid th' big house, an th' lawn as wide an' as grane as th' angel pastures av hiven an' little Eily his sisther th' purtiest gur-rl owld Oirland iver bred, who was niver tired av listhenin' to tales av her big brother.
After dat I drifted up dis way and went to railroadin'." He hadn't exactly the manner of a man-of. warsman. "How long have you been on this road?" asked Grenfall. "'Bout a year, I should t'ink. Been on dis branch only two months, dough." "Are you pretty well acquainted in Edelweiss? "Oh, I run in dere every other day in an' out ag'in. It's a fine place, purtiest you ever saw in your life.
"Well, time went on, an' Jimmy grew tall an' good lookin'. Then came the girl an' she <i>was</i> a girl, too. 'Course, Jimmy, bein' as how he'd had all the frostin' there was goin' on everythin' so fur, carried out the same idea in girls, an' picked out the purtiest one he could find rich old Townsend's daughter, Bessie.
There's thirty dollars gone to the dogs." He sighed. "Oh, well, you'll get over that, just as I did." "I hope I won't get over liking to be clean," Ben said a little sourly. "I won't be back to milk." "Didn't expect ye. That's the very time o' day the girls are purtiest, just about sundown. Better take Rock. I may want the old team myself."
Lord, Lord! We larfed nigh to split ourselves that arternoon; we was all makin' 'ay an' th' owld Squire was workin' wi' us for fun-like. 'I don't think much o' God, father! sez Miss Maryllia, runnin' up to 'im, an' liftin' up all 'er petticuts an' shewin' the purtiest little legs ye ever seed; 'Nurse sez He made the wopses! He-ee-ee-hor-hor- hor!"
We arrived in Turin on Friday evening, about fifty-one hours from the time we started from London. We had spent some little time in Paris, or we could have done it more quickly. We found Turin lit up with a pure bright light, and, as Simon declared, "looking one of the most purtiest places like, as ever he'd clapped his eyes on." We stayed at Hotel Trombetta. We had several reasons for doing this.
So, be Gorra, he got the vow taken off of her by the Bishop; she soon recovered her health, for she was dyin' for love of him, an' you seen their weddin'. It 'ud be worth your while to go a day's journey to get a sight of her she's allowed to be the purtiest girl that ever was in this part o' the counthry." "Well! well! It's a quare world. An' is the family all agreeable to it now?"
Miss Margery that's the Charity lady she's awful cross sometimes said we shouldn't buy a doll with the wages. But she couldn't fault a present. I never see a child love a doll like she did that Honey-Sweet." "Honey-Sweet!" exclaimed Miss Drayton. "Yessum, lady. Wasn't that a funny name for a doll? It was the purtiest rag baby I ever see." "A rag baby, named Honey-Sweet!" repeated Miss Drayton.
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