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Polly Whiting is here, and she is as much as a body can endures in this dull weather." "It's pitiful 'bout the rain, Dotty; but you mustn't scold when God sended it," said Flyaway, dropping the feeble Dinah, and pursuing her cousin round the room with a pin. In a minute they were both laughing gayly, till Flyaway caught herself on her little rocking-chair, and "got a torn in her apron."
Nearly midnight, yet it looked like a peep of day, or the light of the starry gloaming, sent from afar through mystic lenses of magicians. When the aperture closed, night reigned again, save for the small lamp, "sended" now and again aside, which shed its yellow light. A man in clogs was heard coming down the wooden steps. He entered bent in two like a big bear, for he was a giant.
Although the motion of the tender was much less than that of the floating light at least, in regard to the rolling motion yet she sended, or pitched, much.
He then replaced it, descended, and took his place in the ship's launch the last man to leave the ship; and there was little time to spare, for we had scarcely shoved off a few yards, to clear the spars of the wreck, when she sended forward, heavily and sickly, on the long swell. She never rose to the opposite heave of the sea again, but gradually sank by the head.
"DEAR RANDY: Nobudy ever had a dolly so lovely as mine you sended me. I ust tu take Tabby tu bed wiv me but now I take mi dolly. 1 day Tabby washed her hare, I meen my dollys hare I gess she thort it waz 1 of her kittns. Tabbys got tu kittns. They has not got thay ize open yet, so I tryd tu pick um opn, but arnt Prudence sed that wood be cruil.
'And now, he said, 'would you like to hear my news? Do you remember Lady Isobel, Bobby? 'Of course I do. She sended me a beautiful picsher of the gates. She's coming home from India very soon. 'Very soon, indeed! She arrived yesterday. 'Oh, Master Mortimer! Bobby's rapt tone made his uncle laugh. 'Why does Bobby always call you Master Mortimer? Aren't you his uncle? enquired True.
I wouldn't have him for nothin' in my world! I'm glad God sended a girl, and that's what made me laugh." "It seems so queer to think of it Prudy, I don't know what to do with myself, I declare." "Well, I know what I'm goin' to do. I'll give her my red pocket-dress. She's come clear down from God's house, and this is a drefful cold world."
"You knows me, who I am an' whum I cum f'um, nigh's well's I knows who you is, I reckon, Maje' Vanrevel?" "Yes, yes, I know. Will you tell me who sent you?" "Miz Tanberry, suh, dat who sended me, an' in a venomous hurry she done de same!" "Yes. Why? Does she want me?" Mamie emitted a screech. "'Deed she mos' everlas'in'ly does not! Dat de ve'y exackindes' livin' t'ing she does not want!"
Although the motion of the tender was much less than that of the floating light at least, in regard to the rolling motion yet she SENDED, or pitched, much.
"Do you think the fairies put it there for me?" she asked, breathlessly, watching her father closely and trying to read his face. "Or do you think God sended it to me 'cause I've been a good girl?" "Have you been a good girl?" doubtfully. "Are you sure?" "Yes, I think so," hesitatingly; "haven't I, Bella?" turning her anxious little face from one to the other.
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