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Her courage was flagging; her hope had fled. The eyes of the man's wife burned upon her face. "We-uns useter be toler'ble well 'quainted 'fore he ever seen ye, an' I 'lowed he'd b'lieve my word," Eugenia continued. Another silence.
"What's the matter, now? Why upon earth can't you sit still, child?" said Horace, next minute, catching her as she was darting into the aisle, dragging Miss Flop by the hair of the head. "O, Hollis, don't you see there's a dolly over there, with two girls and a lady with red clo'es on? 'Haps they'd be willing for her to get 'quainted with Flipperty?"
White wants. An' then, 'That's quite a hoss we come down with, he says. 'Had him long? 'Jest long 'nough to git 'quainted with him, I says. 'Don't you want the roan fer your own use? I says. 'Mebbe we c'd shade the price a little. 'No, he says, 'I guess not.
"You all time talking 'bout you want more 'n one egg," said Jimmy. "You 'bout the stingiest Peter they is. Ain't you got no eggs? Get Miss Minerva to give you some of hers and I'll take 'em over and ask Miss Cecilia to dye 'em for you 'cause you ain't 'quainted with her yet." "Aunt Minerva ain't got none 'cep'in' what she put under a of hen fer to set this mornin':"
"Yes; I suppose Mr. Lincoln was the best man that ever lived; but papa comes next." "Yes," said Dotty; "I think he does. And I'd rather have him for a father than Mr. Lincoln, 'cause I'm better 'quainted with him. I shouldn't dare kiss the President. And, besides that, he's dead." "You're a funny girl, Dotty; but what you say is true. Everything happens just right in this world."
However appealingly she might turn to him when they were alone, she was gravely detached when they were abroad, and he hoped that she would be taken for a client. Orville Jones once saw them emerging from a movie theater, and Babbitt bumbled, "Let me make you 'quainted with Mrs. Judique. Now here's a lady who knows the right broker to come to, Orvy!" Mr.
"Yes," said Durward, trembling lest the next should be something concerning his stepfather but it was not. Settling himself a little further back in the chair, Joel continued: "Wall, I calkerlate that I'm some relation to Miss Graham. Be you 'quainted with her?" Durward knew that a relationship with Mrs.
But he was winning approbation by his liveliness, his gaiety the qualities least important in him. When the group summoned Carol she made several very well-taken points in regard to the weather. Myrtle cried to Erik, "Come on! We don't belong with these old folks. I want to make you 'quainted with the jolliest girl, she comes from Wakamin, she's staying with Mary Howland."
'Quainted wid any of d' royal crowd?" "Slightly," answered Anguish, smiling. He was watching a trim figure in a tailor-made gown as it approached, drawing apart from the throng. It was Mrs. Harry Van Brugh Anguish. "Say, you must cut some ice wid dese people. But dat's jest like an American, dough," the little guard went on.
An' da tuck him home in er wagin; an' de folks dat wan't right well 'quainted wid him befo' ain't gwine know him now, fur he ain't got no mo' count'nence den er stewed punkin. I neber seed sich er lick in my life." "Oh, I'm glad," she cried, clapping her hands.
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