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But they could find nothing appropriate until Teeny McFarlane deliberately stepped up on the table and broke from the glass chandelier one of its numerous dangling prisms. This called forth a mild protest from Morrell "Oh, I say!" which was drowned in a wild shriek of delight.
Lamotte waved off Teeny, the black girl, and taking her traveling bag and shawl, said to her, "This way, s'il vous plait, Mademoiselle Marguerite. Pardonnez moi," she added quickly, as she met Edith's questioning glance, "Mademoiselle Miggie, as la petite Nina calls you." Once in Edith's room, Mrs.
She could only point at Nanni, who stood calmly out of reach above them with the last scrap of cloth dangling from her lips. "You wretched, black-hearted pig of a goat!" she screamed, stamping her foot. "You've eaten every bit of my lunch, and I'd only taken two little teeny bites! Oh, I wish I'd eaten it all like that greedy Seppi!"
She drew out a thin silver case, opened it. "A teeny Russian one." Claude struck a match. She put the cigarette between her lips, and leaned forward to the tiny flame. "That's it." She sighed. After a moment of silence she said: "I'm glad you couldn't work in the little room. If you had been able to we should never have had this." "We!" thought Claude.
Another jolly thing about Aylmer is that he has none of that awful old-fashioned modernness, thank goodness! 'Ah, I noticed that. 'I suppose he wasn't brilliant today. He was too thrilled. But, do be just a teeny bit careful, Edith dear, because when he is at all he's very much so. Do you see? 'What a lot you seem to think of one little visit, Vincy! After all, it was only one.
It is possible that "Clipture's" supreme attraction for the children was that it conveyed the atmosphere of the familiar East. The New Testament was more difficult to play at, but, being equally dramatic, the children couldn't see it. "Can't we do one teeny miracle?" Tony would beseech, but Meg was firm; she would have nothing to do with either miracles nor yet with angels.
"You mean Teeny Weeny the Shrew," replied Old Mother Nature, smiling at Happy Jack. "He isn't a Mouse. He isn't even a Rodent. I'll try to have him here to-morrow morning and we will see what we can find out about him and his relatives."
"It wasn't buried," Elfrida explained; "it was put into a sort of cellar, with doors, and we've looked all over what's left of the Castle, and there isn't so much as a teeny silver ring to be found." "I see," said Dickie. "But suppose I just worked the magic and wished to be where the treasure is?"
Think that you has lived long, long ago, and that you is shotting things for our dinner." The arrow went wide of the mark, the arrow went everywhere but where it ought to. Diana clapped and laughed and shouted, and Apollo thought himself the finest archer in the world. "Now, let me have a teeny turn," she said. "To be sure I will," he replied good-naturedly.
"You're much too modest, and I'm going to tell Vida so, and, uh, I wonder if you can give me just a teeny bit of your time and show me where the magazine files are kept?" She had won. She was profusely escorted to a room like a grandmother's attic, where she discovered periodicals devoted to house-decoration and town-planning, with a six-year file of the National Geographic.
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