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He saw, at a glance, that the box bore the imprint of one of the Gridley jewelers. "I can guess!" cried Dick. "I know what's in the box!" "Suppose you made a wrong guess?" laughed his mother teasingly. "Better open it and make sure." Dick picked up the box with trembling fingers. "Mighty light, whatever it is," he murmured. Then he took off the cover. "What's this?" choked Dick. "O-o-o-h!"
"American children are pretty bad, aren't they, Frieda?" said Alice mischievously, for Frieda's lips were set sternly. "Don't make her say so," pleaded Hannah teasingly. "She has made such a beautiful record." Frieda flushed a little, but slipped her hand into her pocket and felt there the shape of the little carved frame of Karl's picture and held her tongue once more.
"No, but Joanna used to read them by the hundred and tell me the stories; and I've heard father read aloud to you; and the older girls and the younger teachers used to discuss them at school; oh! I know a lot about life, as it is in books, and I'm just waiting to see if any of it really happens!" "Digby Popham is the only rich nobleman in sight for you, Nancy!" Kitty said teasingly.
I'd rather see Babe a gentle, loving woman than the greatest light of her profession." "What a little bigot it is!" the doctor said teasingly. "No, not a bigot," she returned quickly. "I believe in a girl's taking a profession, when it is the one absorbing interest of her life. It wouldn't be so with Babe.
Do you believe in suffrage for women, for your wife, for example?" He sat up and looked at her. He began to smile teasingly, as if she were a little girl and he a patient elder person with a beam in his eye. "So that's it, hey? You want to be a suffragist and with the suffragists stand! Of course I believe in it. I believe in letting every woman have what she wants.
Howard laughed teasingly. "Catch Allie turning the fine young lady! If you shut her up in a parlor, she'd jump over the chairs and play tag with herself around the table; and Marjorie is about as bad." "Perhaps I am," she assented placidly; "but you boys could never get along without us.
The soft gray folds of the gown swept over the carpet. There was a hint of rose-color in it that caught the lamp-light. Elizabeth glanced teasingly over her shoulder at the Pretender, who turned abruptly away. He was a very poor sort of Pretender, after all, and he feared the mocking gaze of those gray eyes. They might read the secret in his own and laugh at it.
"The old story late again," said Dick, looking up from his well-filled plate as she entered and sat down opposite him at the table. "You'll never have time to cram down cabinet pudding and tart to-day, I'll be bound;" and the boy grinned teasingly on the bright face before him.
Tristan stares vacantly ahead, vaguely pondering the servant's last words, of which the echo has lingered teasingly in his ear. "Do you believe so?" he says at last. "I know a different thing but the manner of it I cannot tell you! This where I have awakened is not the place where I have been, but where I have been I cannot tell you!
"That lion must have been the one that followed Ham up Pike's Peak. How about it, Ham?" said Mr. Allen teasingly. Ham did not reply. The smile disappeared from his face, and he dropped to the back of the line. "Ham, won't you tell us that story some time?" urged Mr. Allen. "I've never heard the real story, and I'd like to know about it." "I've forgotten every detail, Mr.
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