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Ried, that is just as much as you care for appearances sometimes, and at other times you can be quite as particular as I am; though I certainly believe there is nothing that Abbie might take a fancy to do that you would not uphold her in." Mr. Ried's reply was uttered in a tone that impressed one with the belief that he was uttering a deliberate conviction.
Ried's best black silk had long ago been cut over for Ester; so had her brown and white plaid; so there had been nothing of the sort to remodel for Sadie; and this elegant sky-blue silk had been lying in its satin-paper covering for more than two years. It was the gift of a dear friend of Mrs.
Ried's grave, reproving voice; and she added, kindly: "Ester, poor child, I wish you would wrap your face up in something warm and lie down awhile. I am afraid you are suffering a great deal." Poor Ester! It had been a hard day.
Ester left the eggs she was beating, and picked up broken dishes. Mrs. Ried's voice arose above the din: "Sadie, take Minnie and go up stairs. You're too full of play to be in the kitchen." "Mother, I'm real sorry," said Sadie, shaking herself out of the great wet apron, laughing even then at the plight she was in. "Pet, don't cry. We didn't drown after all." "Well! Miss Sadie," Mr.
Will he help or hinder a gay young scamp much sought after by Satan?" "He will try hard to help," said both Mr. and Mrs. Roberts. And before they parted the doctor had taken Mr. Ried's address, and promised to call on him and negotiate the matter. "That plan will work in two ways," said Mrs. Roberts, gleefully. "Mr.
"I don't suppose you can go into detail just now," she added, noting young Ried's hesitation and embarrassment; "but I was wondering if you could give me some general idea of what she wanted to do, or thought could be done." "There were a great many things that she wanted to do, and I believe she thought they could be done; but I don't think she knew the world very well," said this aged cynic.
Dirk shrugged his shoulders again. "Do they?" he said. Her evident ignorance of the world made him good-natured. She was not trying to preach to him, he decided. A thing which Dirk hated, in common with all persons of his class. But the lull in the music had started conversation in other parts of the room. Dirk heard young Ried's question: "Mrs.
"I was unavoidably detained," he explained; "I feared you would grow weary of waiting. Ah, Ried, my wife has introduced herself, I see. Is he the young man you were speaking of, Mrs. Roberts?" "The very young man, Ester Ried's brother. He doesn't know how glad I am to have met him.
Douglass is a hypocrite!" Nothing could have been more composed than the tone in which she was answered: "Very well. What then?" This question was difficult to answer, and Sadie remaining silent, her companion continued: "Mr. Smith is a drunkard; therefore I will be a thief. Is that Miss Sadie Ried's logic?" "I don't see the point." "Don't you? Wasn't that exclamation concerning Dr.
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