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"Noo, juist see an' mak' yersels a' at hame," said Mistress Mikaver, in her uswal fizzy kind o' wey. "An', as the auld sayin' is, gin ye dinna like what's set doon, juist tak' what ye brocht wi' ye," says Mistress Winton, an' set's a' to the lauchin'. You never heard sic a cratur for thae auld-farrant sayin's; an' Mysie's no' far ahent.
"The Government has won? the Maxwells have won, that is, she has won!" said Letty, still frowning, her voice sharp and tingling. "If you like to put it so," said Harding, raising his shoulders. "Yes, I should think that set's pretty jubilant to-night." "And you mean to say that George did and said nothing to prepare you, my poor child?" cried Mrs. Watton, in her heaviest manner.
Tea on the terrace," Vanderbank went on, "isn't 'in' it. But who's here?" "Oh every one. All your set." "Mine? Have I still a set with the universal vagabondism you accuse me of?" "Well then Mitchy's whoever they are." "And nobody of yours?" "Oh yes," Nanda said, "all mine. He must at least have arrived by this time. My set's Mr. Longdon," she explained. "He's all of it now."
And I wadna wonner gin he had set's hert upo' merryin' her upo' 's ain Rob, and sae keepin' her bit siller i' the faimily. "'Deed! maybe, gudewife. He's a burnin' and a shinin' licht amo' you missioners, though; and ye maunna say ill o' 'm, for fear he has ye up afore the kirk." "Ay, deed is he! "Hoot, lass! Ye're ower sair even upo' him.
"Didn't think," whined the woman, "You never think of nothin' but your blamed Young Folks' Society or Sunday School. Your mother an' father and home aint good enough fer your saintship now-a-days. I wish to goodness you'd never heard tell of that preacher; the whole set's a batch of stingy hypocrites." She turned to her dish-washing again with a splash.
"She's gettin' along right nice, I think," replied the widow, looking proudly at her one chick. "You see, she's a lot o' darnin' an' one thing another to do, but she finds time for her landskips and things." "Well, mebbe so," assented Hezekiah grudgingly. "For my part there's nothing set's a gal off like spinnin' an' weavin', an' it puts more money in her pocket, besides." "La, Mr.
One set's as green as the other, exclaimed a boarder, who has never been identified. They're all Bloomers, said the young fellow called John. Why, measuring it with my thirty-foot tape, my dear, said I, I have worn a tape almost out on the rough barks of our old New England elms and other big trees. Don't you want to hear me talk trees a little now? That is one of my specialities.
A cricket chirped in the corner ... the rain pattered on the roof and streamed down the windows; we were all silent. 'Foma Kuzmitch, said the peasant suddenly in a thick, broken voice; 'Foma Kuzmitch! 'What is it? 'Let me go. Biryuk made no answer. 'Let me go ... hunger drove me to it; let me go. 'I know you, retorted the forester severely; 'your set's all alike all thieves.
But she was, not unnaturally, completely taken in by Arthur's similar game, the more easily as Arthur put into it an intensity of energy which Ross had not. She therefore thought Arthur as unpractical as he so fashionably professed, thought he accepted without reservation "our set's" pretenses of aristocracy for appearance's sake.
"I mean what all our set's talking about Errington's queer fancy for that actress at the Brilliant." Thelma still gazed at him fixedly. "It is a mistake," she said resolutely, "altogether a mistake. And as you are his friend, Sir Francis, you will please contradict this report which is wrong, and may do Philip harm. It has no truth in it at all " "No truth!" exclaimed Lennox. "It's true as Gospel!
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