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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Did you have a good time in the country?" asked Alice of Flossie. "Oh, didn't we just though! It was scrumptious!" "And false-face robbers stopped the train coming home," added Freddie. "Only it was make-believe." "I wish I'd been there," said Johnnie, after Freddie had told about it. "We went up to a lake this Summer. Nothing much happened there except I fell in and most drowned."
"I know you wouldn't, after living here all these weeks and having servants to wait on you and pretty frocks to wear and scrumptious food to eat. I'll bet you wouldn't, so own up and be honest." Faith frowned. "Well, what do you expect me to do?" she asked rather crossly. "I suppose this is all leading up to something, isn't it?" "Yes, it is. You've got to play fair.
"It sure is wonderful an' some scrumptious! I never thought I'd be ridin' one of these critters. But they're th' only thing t' git t' this hidden valley with. We might prospect around for a year, and be driven back by the Indians and Eskimos a dozen times. But with this we can go over their heads, and get all the gold we want."
Of course, now that I am in love, I could write volumes on how scrumptious it is and how floppy I feel whenever I see Whythe, especially when he keeps his deep, dark eyes on me as if he were trying to read my soul when we happen to meet at the foot of the hill and sit on the worm fence for a while.
'Got kind o' 'tached to 'em, he said, looking down at them and rubbing his chin thoughtfully. Then we had a good laugh. 'You can put on the other suit, I suggested, 'and when we get to the city we'll have these fixed. 'Leetle sorry, though, said he, 'cuz that other suit don' look reel grand. This here one has been purty purty scrumptious in its day if I do say it.
She has plenty in her garden that she allows to stay there all winter, and they come up and are scrumptious very early in the Spring. Then she takes some of them into the house and keeps them in the dark, and they blossom all through the cold weather." "Mother likes bulbs, too," said Dorothy, "crocuses and hyacinths and Chinese lilies but I never cared much about them.
His tastes were still barbaric, and a quiet suit of black would not have come up to his idea of what was befitting a successful California miner. He surveyed himself before the tailor's glass with abundant satisfaction. "I guess that'll strike 'em at home, eh, Joe?" he said. "You look splendid, Mr. Bickford." "Kinder scrumptious, don't I?" "Decidedly so."
"Up to a point," he said: "Auntie June took me to church one Sunday." "To church? Oh!" "She wanted to see how it would affect me." "And did it?" "Yes. I came over all funny, so she took me home again very quick. I wasn't sick after all. I went to bed and had hot brandy and water, and read The Boys of Beechwood. It was scrumptious." His mother bit her lip. "When was that?"
"I don't think I shall. You would only talk treason- well- social treason all the way, and you don't want me, and Aunt Cherry would have to lunch alone, unless you wait till after." "Oh no, I know a scrumptious place for lunch," said Gerald. "You are right, Annie, one lady is quite enough on one's hands in such regions. You have no jewellery, Emmie?"
"Then I don't know; unless it was for Doctor Matthews," Muriel essayed with an innocent air. "You have a speaking acquaintance with him, I believe." A shout of mirth followed this ingenuous guess. "Don't guess again," Marjorie implored. "I won't. I've guessed wrongly both times. I don't know anyone else who might be in line for that scrumptious basket."
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