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Now only a minute before, Flossy, the white kitten, had waked from her nap, and seeing that Dolly was absorbed in her story-book, inferred that kitten comfort was not at the moment needed, and decided to go after a very yellow butterfly out on the Fayre lawn. Stealthily across the grass, Flossy went butterflywards, on tippy-toe.
She was to be found here, there, and everywhere darning the rent in Molly's frock, or helping Nora with her drawing, or trying to find a story-book for Nell which she had not already read at least six times, or healing the small squabbles with which Boris and Kitty helped to beguile the weary hours. Mrs. Lorrimer consulted her with regard to the cook and the servants generally.
'So it has been with some of mine, while, on the other hand, Dolores seemed to Mysie an interesting story-book heroine which indeed she is, rather too much so. But you have not stood still with Clare. 'No, I hope I have grown rather more sensible. David set me to do stories for his lads, and, as he is dreadfully critical, it was very improving. 'Did you write 'Kate's Jewel'? That is delightful.
"Oh, I'm so delightfully goose-fleshy! This is the most thrilling adventure of my life! I begin to feel as if I were part of a story-book myself, like all the rest of Marsden!" said Kate, half-breathless with running, when her mate came to a sudden halt among the shadows of the trees beside the famous pool.
Goodness, I am beginning to feel like a girl in a story-book." "It is no laughing matter," he said, a little gruffly. "Does it look like it when I come rushing out here with two loaded pistols and come near to shooting you? Come up to the house. We will talk it all over, and then, " he hesitated for a moment, "then I'll go over and see your mother." He took her arm and led her up to the house.
How you tell the people 'that eel-pies are now become an essential element of civilisation' I learnt all the words by heart, that I might say 'em to you 'that the Eastern population of London are cut off from the blessings of such a necessary and that by means of the projected line eel-pies will be brought home to the business and bosoms of Ratcliff Highway and the adjacent dependencies. Well, when you men lords of the creation, as you call yourselves do get together to make up a company, or anything of the sort is there any story-book can come up to you?
Her cheeks would burn, and her eyes sparkle, over such trivial circumstances as a walk down a country lane, as blackberry-hunting, as strawberry-picking a new story-book kept her awake half the night she was, in short, a constant little volcano in this quiet home, and would have been an intolerable child but for the great sweetness of her temper, and also for the fact that every one more or less yielded to her.
Even the books on the table seemed to have been chosen to suit her taste, for there lay "The Dove in the Eagle's Nest;" "The Wide Wide World;" "The Daisy Chain," in two fat blue volumes; and Mrs. Whitney's charming tale of "We Girls." She peeped at one title after another with a little jump of satisfaction. How long, how very long it was since she had had a new story-book to read.
And if that child's brain wasn't just right if she was a little weak-minded, poor thing what's more reasonable than that she treasured it all up in her mind and after years, in one of her spells of weak-mindedness, she got the idea she was Ida May Bostwick, and determined to come here and visit us!" "I swan, Prudence!" exclaimed Cap'n Ira. "It's like a story-book a reg'lar novel."
I wish the characters would not talk so much." "No matter. Two of them are in love with one another, are they not?" "Yes. It would not be a novel without that." "Do you believe, in your secret soul, Agatha I take the liberty of using your Christian name because I wish to be very solemn do you really believe that any human being was ever unselfish enough to love another in the story-book fashion?"
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