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"How much for that beautiful bird for my father?" demanded the nouveau riche. His words were blurred by the still-resistant chocolate mouse, and he was compelled to point before Solly Gumble divined his wish. The merchant debated, removing his skullcap, smoothing his grizzled fringe of curls, fitting the cap on again deliberately.
Edward Solly, a very pious and worshipful lover of books, under several examples of whose book-plate I have lately reverently placed my own, was so anxious to fly all outward noise that he built himself a library in his garden.
Holford; and another by Guido, which will give an idea of the treatment. Before quitting the subject of the Immaculate Conception. I must refer to a very curious picture called an Assumption, but certainly painted at least one hundred years before the Immaculate Conception was authorized as a Church subject. Solly, and now in the possession of Mr.
"Have you been thinking, dear, and are you sorry and ready to come out?" "Yes, um," replied the little culprit, with her mouth full, and feeling very brave as long as the door was shut between her and her jailer. "Yes, um, I've thought it all up, defful solly. But you won't never shut me up no more, gamma Parlin!"
Max patted her cheek and then stole his little arm round her neck in a perfectly cherubic way. "I'm solly," he said; then he seemed to realize more clearly that the lady's honour had to be vindicated before all these "girls," and he repeated more loudly and without being asked, "I'm velly solly." "You darling!" cried the delighted Miss Bibby, and clasped and kissed him again.
"Jumping fish-hooks!" he cried. "Why, the river's up six inches and still a comin'! Here you, Tom!" he called to one of the yard hands, "you tell Solly to get steam on that tug double quick, and have Dave hustle together his driver crew." "What you going to do?" asked Wallace. "I got to strengthen the booms," explained the mill foreman. "We'll drive some piles across between the cribs."
"Spent all his money!" echoed the shocked courtiers, and looked upon him coldly. Some of them withdrew across the store and in low tones pretended to discuss the merits of articles in another show case. "I guess you couldn't let me have him for forty-eight cents," said the Wilbur twin hopelessly. Solly Gumble removed his skullcap, fluffed his scanty ring of curls, and drew on the cap again.
At any rate she was determined not to complain, when Solly had been so very polite. "Isn't this prime?" said Johnny, as they launched out upon the water. The motion was certainly pleasant, and for a few moments Dotty was quite delighted, thinking over and over again, "Mamma won't care; it's nothing but a wherry, and the wind doesn't blow."
He would have done so but for the dollar that Sharon absently bestowed upon him from a crumple of bills when he left the buggy at the entrance to Whipple Old Place. Winona, he instantly knew, would counsel him to save the dollar, and he did not wish to save it. As fast as his bare feet with a stone bruise on one heel would carry him he sped to Solly Gumble's. Yet not with wholly selfish intent.
"'Now, says I to Solly, with a wink at myself, 'here's the first dinner-station we've struck where we can get a real good plate of beans. And while he was up in his room trying to draw water out of the gas-pipe, I got one finger in the buttonhole of the head waiter's Tuxedo, drew him apart, inserted a two-dollar bill, and closed him up again.
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