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It must be dreadful to think as much scorn as she does." "And talk it out," added Miss Sterling. "I wish she wouldn't, for she is really better than she sounds." "Oh, if she'd try some of Aunt Susie's exercises, perhaps they'd make her face thin!" "I thought they were to make it plump." "So they are and thin, too, in the right places. They'd cure her double chin."
Susie Smithers declared that she sat before the fire at such times and took naps, but Susie's knowledge was not always trustworthy it depended entirely on the position of the keyhole.
'All the same I would rather be God and able to do things! Then the children moved off out of earshot. The two seated on the tombstone looked after them. The first to speak was the girl, who said: 'That's very sweet and good of Marjorie; but do you know, Harold, I like Susie's idea better. 'Which idea was that, Stephen?
But one word: Celia, it was Heyton who wronged Susie, it was Heyton who forged the cheque; it was because Lady Gridborough thought me guilty of wrecking Susie's life, that she cut me that morning when she passed us at the gate by the wood. She knows the truth now; for Reggie has got Susie to reveal it " "Reggie!" murmured Celia.
In hell there'll be blue-blooded sinners, and she can't mix with sinners. The grave's the place for her, and won't anybody round here weep when she's put in it. But Lord-a-mercy, what am I wastin' time talking about an old teapot like her for? She's hurt Susie's feelin's so often, Susie bein' like her pa, and not havin' much spirit, that I get kinder riled when her name is mentioned.
A railroad can ask for public aid; but fancy him asking public aid to open and settle up his private lands! He could almost hear Susie's horse-laugh in reply. Why should she not laugh? He recalled with what sweet unboastful tone his father had always condemned every scheme and symptom of riding on public shoulders into private fortune.
Bettina tenderly embraced her sister; then, resting her head coaxingly on Susie's shoulder, she said: "If, however, you are tired of keeping me with you, if you are in a hurry to get rid of me, do you know what I will do? I will put the names of two of these gentlemen in a basket, and draw lots. There are two who at the last extremity would not be absolutely disagreeable." "Which two?" "Guess."
Monkey-Doodle, I'll take her to Susie." Then Uncle Wiggily paid the toy-store keeper and hurried off with Susie's doll. Uncle Wiggily had not gone very far before, all at once from around the corner of a snowbank he heard a sad, little voice crying: "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" "My goodness!" said the bunny uncle. "Some one else is in trouble. I wonder who it can be this time?"
And at last they came to Skene. Arthur led them again to the opening in the palisade, and he took Susie's hand. Presently they stood in the place from which a few days before they had seen the house. As then, it stood in massive blackness against the night and, as then, the attic windows shone out with brilliant lights. Susie started, for she had expected that the whole place would be in darkness.
Some names are appropriate to fair men, while others are more suitable to dark ones, don't you think so?" She laughed; but there was no smile in Susie's eyes, as she turned and looked, moodily, at the baby, one of whose chubby hands was clasping Celia's finger. "Let's think of some names," said Celia. "James! I don't like that, do you? Richard; no, that's a dark name. Percy; how would that do?"
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