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In this field also moved, not so fast, nor so gracefully as the shadows, two ploughs, one near by, and the other at quite a distance. The woods which shut out a great part of the horizon showed many a bit of color, but the scene, although bright enough in some of its tones, was not a cheering one to Roberta; and she needed cheering.
Rob, did you see the picture in the other room that looks so like Gordon? It seems almost as if it must have been painted from him." She flitted back into the outer room. Roberta stood still before the desk, above which hung the portrait of the lovely young woman who had been Richard's mother. Younger than Roberta herself she looked; such a girl to pass away and leave her baby, her first-born!
Rosy's are mignonette, great clusters, a whole armful I didn't know florists grew such richness they smell like the summer kind. She's so pleased. Mine are violets and lilies-of-the-valley. I'm perfectly crazy over them. Yours " Roberta had the cover off. Roses! Somehow she had known they would be roses after last night. But such roses!
Such a task it's so heavy and curly " Aunt Ruth suddenly stopped talking about Roberta, as if it had occurred to her that this young man looked altogether too interested in such trifles as the dressing of certain thick, dark locks.
In a moment he produced something which he waved at Ruth. She and Ted went to meet him as he returned. Roberta, busy with the horses, had not seen. "There are only two exposures left on the film, but they'll do, if she'll be good. Will she mind if I snap her, or must I ask her permission?" "I think you'd better ask it," counselled Ruth doubtfully. "If it were one of us she wouldn't mind "
It was in this manner she said to Lawrence: "Do you really go away from us to-morrow?" "Yes," said he, "I shall push on." "Do you not find the country very beautiful at this season?" asked Miss Roberta, after a few steps in silence. "I don't like autumn," answered Lawrence. "Everything is drying up and dying. I would rather see things dead." Roberta looked at him without turning her head.
Missy S'wanee, she larf she was allus a-larfin' no matter what happen an' she says, 'I'se'll get eben wid him. Well, de cap'n goes an' speaks to de cunnel, an' de oder captured ossifers ob our sogers, an' dey bow to him, an' den dey comes up an' sits on de verandy, an' Missy Roberta goes out, and dey talk in low tones, an' I couldn't hear what dey say.
"Junius told us, almost as soon as he came here, that he would have to be in Washington by the first of this week." Mr Croft did not pursue this subject further, but presently remarked: "Are you and I the first comers, Miss March?" Roberta looked from one of her companions to the other, and remarked: "I do not understand you."
"Roberta, Marquise of Grez and Bye, how will you even gain the refuge of your petticoats and get away from these lies of dishonor if you are to be so pursued by " I was asking of myself when my Uncle, the General Robert, opened the door and said: "Better see this pardon delegation now, Governor. That other matter is going to go to hell as fast as it can if we don't scotch it.
If only you'll stick! But you're your father's son, after all and my grandson; I can't help believing you'll stick!" "I'm going to drive into town. Any of you girls want to go with me?" Mr. Rufus Gray addressed his wife and their two guests, his nieces, Roberta and Ruth Gray.
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