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"How?" said Eustacia, with intense curiosity in her heavy eyes. "My uncle has been for five and twenty years the trusty man of a rich widow-lady who has a beautiful house facing the sea. This lady has become old and lame, and she wants a young company-keeper to read and sing to her, but can't get one to her mind to save her life, though she've advertised in the papers, and tried half a dozen.
'Manda an' me was down narth when the last parson come this way. An' 'Manda she've been wantin' " "T' have it done," Aunt Amanda put in, patting the curly head of the smallest Bow, "afore " "Ay," said Uncle Joe, "wantin' t' have it done, shipshape, afore she " "Died," Aunt Amanda concluded. By this time the amazing news had spread.
"All the same, I'll warrant she never means to row a race in that condemned old tub. She've dragged it out just for practice, and painted it up to make a show. When the time comes if ever it do she'll fit and borrow a new boat off one of the war-ships. We can do the same." "Granted that you can, there's the question of the crew.
Let me tell ye, ye won't find many on 'em so well looked to as she be my Luce! Well, Mr. Fev'rel, it's you, or it's her one of ye must be out o' the way. So we're told. And Luce I do believe she's just as anxious about yer education as yer father she says she'll go, and wouldn't write, and'd break it off for the sake o' your education. And she've kep' her word, haven't she? She's a true'n.
All the schooling Betty had had was at Mrs. Bute Crawley's Sunday school, and she could no more read writing than Hebrew. "La, Miss Briggs," the girl exclaimed, "O, Miss, something must have happened there's nobody in Miss Sharp's room; the bed ain't been slep in, and she've run away, and left this letter for you, Miss."
Let's have a squint at it!" yelled the juniors. "Give her to the Bug-hunters." "The cat looked at the King and died of it! Hoosh! Yai! Yaow! Maiow! Ftzz!" were some of the cries that followed. Again Richards appeared. "She've been" he checked himself suddenly "dead a long taime." The school roared. "Well, come on out for a walk," said Stalky in a well-chosen pause.
Miss Mysie, you tell your mamma that I should be fain to know her pleasure about Miss Dollars' frocks. She've scarce got one coloured or mourning that don't want altering. Mrs. Halfpenny always caused Dolores such extreme astonishment and awe that she obeyed her instantly, but to be turned about and tidied by an authoritative hand was extremely disagreeable to the independent young lady.
It seemed hard for him to say. "She've been in service, zur," he went on, turning to the doctor, "at Wayfarer's Tickle. An' I'm fair troubled along o' she." "She've not come?" my sister asked. For a moment Tom regarded the floor his gaze fixed upon a protruding knot. "She weren't aboard, Miss Bessie," he answered, looking up, "an' she haven't sent no word.
"You might stand a pint for an old friend, George, my dear," said the Cheap Jack, following him. But George hurried on, and shook his head. "No, no," said he; "tak' thee missus whoam, I tell 'ee. She've not seen much at your expense today, if she have lost her pus."
"Bad, bad as heart can wish. A peck o' trouble, by the looks of it. Chris Blanchard be gone vanished like a dream! Mother Blanchard called her this marnin', an' found her bed not so much as creased. She've flown, an' there's a braave upstore 'bout it, for every Blanchard's wrong in the head more or less, beggin' your pardon, missis, as be awnly wan by marriage." "But no sign?
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