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Two, motor ride. Six o'clock, dinner for the Lambs and the We Are Sevens. You're in on that, too, Joy; you and Mrs. White. Eight, theatre. Sunday. Eleven o'clock, church at Trinity; hope the Bishop preaches. Two o'clock, visit with relatives. Seven, tea at relatives, probably. Monday morning Woodford. Sounds fascinating, doesn't it?" "Alluring, Blue Bonnet. I hope you'll have a happy time."
So had Katie, who at that moment was preparing all sorts of good things in the kitchen, to be served the young people later. Blue Bonnet gave each of the We Are Sevens an extra hug, and looked into their faces long and eagerly. "Why, you haven't changed a bit!" she remarked. One might have thought the separation had covered five years, rather than five weeks. "But you have, Blue Bonnet lots!
"Hetty said she'd attend to it," was the reply; "but we are all upset to-day and things are at sixes and sevens." "The column is all prepared, Miss Doyle," announced Hetty. "Where is it?" "Thursday has made it ready for the press. It's illustrated," she confessed. "I'd rather you wouldn't see it until the paper is out, if you can trust me." "To be sure," said Patsy.
If Michael could have passed his twenty-eighth year, there would have been hope for him, at least till his thirty-fifth. These pulmonary things seem to go by sevens, you know." "I didn't know," said Theron. "It is very strange and very sad." His startled mind was busy, all at once, with conjectures as to Celia's age. "The sister Miss Madden seems extremely strong," he remarked tentatively.
It's very vulgar to put value on money; gentle birth and good breeding count for much more." "I guess our grandsires could measure up with anybody's," Amanda said proudly. "We're every one eligible to the Daughters of the Revolution." "What's the matter with the We Are Sevens?" Kitty shouted, and the rest took up the cry: "Who's all right? We're all right!"
There were thirty of them, and they all came down the steep, ladder-like steps by ones and twos and threes and sixes and sevens. Bobbie and Phyllis and Peter counted them as they passed.
She crossed her hands in an ecstatic little fashion that expressed the greatest excitement and joy. "You wouldn't mind, would you, Aunt Lucinda? Why, the We Are Sevens wouldn't get over it in a week. It seems too good to be true." Before Miss Clyde and Blue Bonnet parted with Mr. Winthrop all arrangements had been completed, and Blue Bonnet walked away as if she were treading on air.
Do you think that business men are always infallible? The street-car lines of this city were at sixes and sevens, fighting each other; money was being wasted by poor management. The idea behind the company was a public-spirited one, to give the citizens cheaper and better service, by a more modern equipment, by a wider system of transfer. It seems to me, Mr.
So everything was at sixes and sevens in this paradise: and when the mischief-maker was detected, the blessed held a meeting, for it was now the day of All Souls, on which the dead have privilege.
Effie pressed her warm young lips on the older woman's brow, and then ran out of the room. There was a large nursery upstairs, where everything at the present moment was, as Effie's mother had said, at sixes and sevens. The nursemaid, a young girl of seventeen, was not up to her duties the children ruled her, instead of her ruling the children.