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Lamb, I suppose you are that misguided young man?" said Aunt Kipp, as if it was a personal insult to herself. "Van Bahr Lamb, ma'am, if you please. Yes, thank you," murmured Baa-Baa, bowing, blushing, and rumpling his curly fleece in bashful trepidation. "Don't thank me," cried the old lady. "I'm not going to give you anything, far from it. I object to you altogether.
"Well, it won't be your fault," said Prudence. "You haven't broken your word intentionally." But the captain paid no heed. He was staring wild-eyed into vacancy and rumpling his grey hair until it stood at all angles. His face reflected varying emotions. "Somebody has got it," he said again. "Whoever it is will get no good by it," said Miss Drewitt, who had had a pious upbringing.
He paused and at a sudden guilty glance he dropped his hand and started back. "My God!" he cried, "not you, too, Buckbee? Don't tell me you're in on it, too! Well, I might as well quit, then! What's the use of trying when every friend you've got turns out a crook!" He slumped down in his chair and, rumpling up his hair, gazed at Buckbee with somber eyes. "So! Old friend Buckbee, too?
She rustled over to her father and brushed her lips across his cheek, rustling back again to tell Jody that she must try the neck coil again it was entirely too loose. "I guess Steve can't go any better than that," her father said, balancing himself on his toes and, in so doing, rumpling the rug.
After these visitors had left, Maurice would ask his friend to dinner, but the door would open again, and Mademoiselle Irma, in her furs and small veil a comical little face would enter quickly and throw her arms about Amedee's neck, kissing him, while rumpling his hair with her gloved hands. "Bravo! we will all three dine together." No!
Assisted by the negro's arms, Grant climbed to the floor above, where a dim skylight gave him light and air. A cup of hot coffee was then handed up and the door of the trap carefully fastened, Malachi rumpling the shavings on the work-bench to conceal the dust, No trace of the hiding-place of the fugitive was visible.
When any of my relations give a tea I am always tethered to a tray and a plate of biscuits." She stopped suddenly and looked at Helen keenly, with a stare that puzzled the girl. Then she jumped up and seated herself upon the bed, rumpling the counterpane.
They seemed to do it on purpose," I blurted out, and laid my head upon my arm. My father crossed the room and sat down beside me. "Spud!" he said it was a long time since he had called me by that childish nickname "perhaps you are going to be with me, one of the unlucky ones." "Are you unlucky?" I asked. "Invariably," answered my father, rumpling his hair. "I don't know why.
Mr. Culpepper nodded. "The worst of it is, girls don't like steady young men," he said, rumpling his thin grey hair; "that's the silly part of it." "But you was always steady, and Mrs. Culpepper married you," said the young man. Mr. Culpepper nodded again. "She thought I was, and that came to the same thing," he said, composedly.
"Nobody could be steadier than what I am," sighed Mr. Sharp. Mr. Culpepper nodded. "The worst of it is, girls don't like steady young men," he said, rumpling his thin grey hair; "that's the silly part of it." "But you was always steady, and Mrs. Culpepper married you," said the young man. Mr. Culpepper nodded again. "She thought I was, and that came to the same thing," he said, composedly.
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