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An' then I stopped at your mother's to kinder talk over old times when my mother was little; an' you come to the door an' let me in." "Eben," said Lydia, out of her dream and with all her story-book knowledge at hand, "don't you s'pose 'twas ordered?" "What?" "Don't you s'pose 'twas just put into your head to start out that way so 't you could come an' find me?"
Yet I would not for much forget those days when we saw him escaping utterly from all worries and troubles and perfectly happy before a blackboard covered with amazing characters. It was pure innocent delight in a new world of knowledge, like a child's in a new story-book." When he was sixty-three he added Arabic to his other acquirements.
And it was with that story-book land, with its imagined soil intersected by a hundred bubbling watercourses, that Guermantes, changing its form in my mind, became identified, after I heard Dr. Percepied speak of the flowers and the charming rivulets and fountains that were to be seen there in the ducal park.
Jem Thompson, looking up as the old woman entered the room; "it sounds like a story-book. Show us that cut on your head again, mate." The obliging Mr. Boxer complied. "We're going on with 'em after they've 'ad sup-per," continued Mr. Thompson, as he and his wife rose to depart. "It'll be a fair treat to me to see old Silver bowled out." Mrs.
"How was that, Rachel?" said her father sharply. Poor girl! deep in the mysteries of long division, she did not hear him. "Rachel," he repeated, "what were you called up in school for to-day?" She glanced reproachfully at Tom. "I read a little in 'The Pilgrim's Progress, father. It's not a story-book " "Never mind what it is.
"But she's showing a real talent for medical matters. It is quite unconscious for the most part, but I find that she understands a good deal already, and she sat here all the afternoon last week with one of my old medical dictionaries. I couldn't help looking over her shoulder as I went by, and she was reading about fevers, if you please, as if it were a story-book.
His spade's gone too, and his ap Oh, mercy! there's his story-book now," and she pounced on "Robinson Crusoe," where it lay on the table. "He's been down here certain sure, for that book was on his bed when he went to sleep last night. Don't stand there, Marianne, but come and help me find him." Into the parlor, the dining-room, the pantry, ran the maids, calling "Archie!
"We would like to see some one who will teach us how to run an auto," she began. "I know something of one, but I have a new kind." The three girls drew back. "A nice, agreeable, elderly gentleman!" whispered Belle to Cora. Cora could not repress a smile. Instead of the "story-book machinist," a handsome young lad stood before them, smiling at their discomfiture.
And Mary married Henry Thomas, after she went with the Howes tribe to Concord, and he got rid of it for her in double quick time all but the Orham land." "So that was all you could find out, hey, Ase?" asked the captain. "Well, it's at least as much as I expected. You see, teacher, these story-book notions don't work out when it comes to real life." Miss Dawes was plainly disappointed.
It was a German story-book, full of bright coloured pictures; so he saw as he opened it and turned over the leaves, scarcely thinking of what he did, when his eye was suddenly arrested by the inscription on the fly-leaf.
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