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A subdued snigger came from the direction of the desk usually occupied by William. Tutt flushed. It was one thing to call Mrs. Allison "Georgie" in private and another to have her "Sammy" him within hearing of the office force. And just then Miss Wiggin passed by with her nose slightly in the air. "What a perfectly wonderful idea!" went on Mrs. Allison rapturously. "A perfectly wonderful idea!"
A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them, and Mabel hopped it. "Well?" said Bingo rapturously. I took it that he wanted my opinion of the female poisoner who had just left us. "Very nice," I said.
"Oh, would you open it now, or would you wait until to-morrow?" cried Ruth, as she weighed the package in her hands and studied the outside. "It's too fascinating, and I really can't wait," she decided, and cutting the string with the knife Arthur held out to her, she soon disclosed a box of unmistakable intent. "Tyler's!" she said rapturously, "and five pounds of it, I'm sure.
She and Jim chattered rapturously of French windows, of brick garden walks, of how plain little net curtains and Anne's big brass bowl full of nasturtiums would look on the landing of the absurd little stairway that led from the square hall to two useless little chambers above. "Jimski this floor oiled, and the rug laid cross-wise! And old tapestry papers from Fredericks!
So she said to herself. Oh, Grizel! But first she opened two drawers. They were in a great press and full of beautiful linen woven in Thrums, that had come to Dr. McQueen as a "bad debt." "Your marriage portion, young lady," he had said to Grizel, then but a slip of a girl, whereupon, without waiting to lengthen her frock, she rushed rapturously at her work-basket.
We followed the ups and downs of the road for a mile, passing a meadow full of bobolinks, "Bubbling rapturously, madly," climbed by a grass-grown wood road a mountain-side pasture, and reached the forest. Under a dead spruce sat my lady, in a snug bed among the fallen leaves.
Before she quite knew that she meant to do so, Beatrice had asked the Bells to join the tennis party that evening. They accepted the invitation rapturously. "Might Polly and Daisy Jenkins come too, and might Polly's brother come, and if they met Mr. Jones, the curate Mr. Jones did so love tennis might he come?" "Is the brother an officer in the real army?" inquired Matty. "Real army "
"Sir," said Joe, taking a set of gloves from a locker, "if you are ready to box a round or so " "Why, no," answered Ravenslee, "I don't want to box to-day, Joe." "Eh?" said Joe, staring, "not?" "I want to fight, Joe." "To fight, sir?" repeated Joe. "Fight?" cried the Old Un rapturously. "Oh, music sweet music t' me old ears! Fight? Oh, j'yful words! What's the old song say?
You have achieved great wonders! Cannot you remove this little, little mark, which I cover with the tips of two small fingers! Is this beyond your power, for the sake of your own peace, and to save your poor wife from madness?" "Noblest dearest tenderest wife!" cried Aylmer, rapturously. "Doubt not my power.
His uncle Lord Lawdor is only forty-five and he has four splendid healthy boys perfect little giants." "Oh, I didn't know there was a title. How splendid," exclaimed Amabel rapturously.
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