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Seth cried shrilly. "It's gone; but I'll cross my throat if I knew I was passin' it!" Snip, hearing his young master's cry of fear, stood on his hind feet, scratching and clawing to attract attention, and, hardly conscious of what he did, Seth took the little fellow in his arms once more. "That settles the whole business," Teddy Dixon cried, in the tone of one who has made an important discovery.
She has the cares of her household besides to make both ends meet; to make the girls' milliner's bills appear not too dreadful to the father and paymaster of the family; to snip off, in secret, a little extra article of expenditure here and there, and convey it, in the shape of a bank-note, to the boys at college or at sea; to check the encroachments of tradesmen and housekeepers' financial fallacies; to keep upper and lower servants from jangling with one another, and the household in order.
The notion that he the great custodian of the nation's literary treasures would snip out and pocket the title-page of the folio edition of Shakespeare, or of the Coverdale Bible, tickled Mr. Panizzi's fancy vastly. In spite, however, of our rector's fiery temperament, or perhaps in consequence of it, he was remarkably susceptible to the charms of beauty.
Dined with the family. After dinner Lockhart's proofs came in and occupied me for the evening. I wish I have not made that article too long, and Lockhart will not snip away. December 8. Went to Court and stayed there a good while. Made some consultations in the Advocates' Library, not furiously to the purpose. Court in the morning. Sent off Lockhart's proof, which I hope will do him some good.
Here, I'll snip that thing for you." Mrs. Richie faced him in amazement. "What! Why, but they are both children, and " she stopped, and looked at him. "Oh David!" she said. And the boy, forgetting the spying windows of the opposite houses, dropped his head on her shoulder. "Materna Materna," he said, in a stifled voice.
"That's it charge of Stonewall's field hospital just happened to ride into Waite's camp that night damn lucky for you I did young snip there wanted to saw the bone I stopped that liked your face imagined you might be worth saving ain't so sure of it now, or you wouldn't be out in this God forsaken country, eating such grub my name's Fairbain Joseph Wright Fairbain, M.D. contract surgeon for the railroad working on the line?"
Snip, snip, went her scissors, while her thoughts roamed far afield now looking forward with renewed pleasure to Christine's wedding, now dwelling dolefully on the mortgage. Patty, who was washing the dishes, knew just what her thoughts were by the light and shadow on her expressive face. "Why! what?" exclaimed Carry suddenly.
This same woman made three sweaters in ten days, all perfect garments. The wife of the superintendent is the teacher, and two of the blind women help the others by picking up dropped stitches, straightening puckers, and suggesting easier methods to the inexperienced workers. Those who can not knit, snip rags for the ambulance pillows, hem Red Cross handkerchiefs, and sew on hospital quilts.
"Go back and read those Situations Wanted over again, Jerry," she commanded with a decisive snip of the elastic she was cunningly inserting into more new rompers for Timothy. Jerry Tressady obediently sat up in his steamer chair and flattened a copy of the Emville Mail upon his knee. The problem under discussion this morning was that of getting a nurse for Timothy Tressady, aged two years.
One in particular, speaking of the peculiarities of men, of how they are always more at ease when they have their hands employed, drawing confidence and conversation from a paper-knife and book to tumble, a pair of scissors and a thread to snip, or even from imbibing the head of a cane, I am anxious to call his attention to.
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