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"Oh! You ought to conform to tradition. There's a particularly alluring hammock on the veranda." "To get rid of me is it necessary to make me take a nap?" he protested. "So you refuse to go to sleep?" "I certainly do." She sighed and tucked the tennis-bat under her left arm.
I couldn't bear not to do it after that, and I I sold my tennis-bat for five shillings, and took another five shillings out of my last two weeks' wages, and sent them half a sov. the other day." Horace gave an involuntary whistle of dismay, but added, quickly, "I hope the fellows will be grateful for it, old man; they ought to be. Never mind, I'm certain we shall pull through it some day.
In reality there were seven of them, of all sizes and sexes, from the third Joshua with a tennis-bat to the youngest who was weeping at being sent to bed, and holding on to her Aunt Susan with desperation. When Honora had greeted them all, and kissed some of them, she was informed that there were two more upstairs, safely tucked away in cribs. "I'm sure you love children, don't you?" said Mrs.
Carrick asked Hamil if he cared to play "he would rather look on this time, Jessie. Go ahead; we are not interrupting you; where is Shiela " And Hamil, chancing to turn, saw her, tennis-bat tucked under one bare arm, emerging from the jungle path; and at the same instant she caught sight of him.
Come, Phil; there's no law against talking at table, and there's no use trying to run an establishment if you make a mockery of the kitchen." Eileen, one bare arm around her brother's shoulders, strolled houseward across the lawn, switching the shaven sod with her tennis-bat. "What are you doing this afternoon?" she said to Selwyn.
Thinking of these things now, he leaned heavily forward, elbows on the little table. And, suddenly unbidden, before his haunted eyes rose the white portico of Silverside, and the greensward glimmered, drenched in sunshine, and a slim figure in white stood there, arms bare, tennis-bat swinging in one tanned little hand.
The story-books she had longed for; the little writing-desk she had always coveted but never possessed; the workbox with its reels of colored silks, its matchless pair of scissors, its silver thimble, its odds and ends of every sort and description; the tennis-bat; the hockey-club; the new saddle that would exactly fit Peas-blossom: all these things and many more were given to Pauline.
In reality there were seven of them, of all sizes and sexes, from the third Joshua with a tennis-bat to the youngest who was weeping at being sent to bed, and holding on to her Aunt Susan with desperation. When Honora had greeted them all, and kissed some of them, she was informed that there were two more upstairs, safely tucked away in cribs. "I'm sure you love children, don't you?" said Mrs.
The young girl beside him had finished her guava, and now, idly swinging her tennis-bat, stood watching the games in the sunken courts below. "Please don't consider me a burden," he said. "I would be very glad to sit here and watch you play." "I have been playing, thank you." "But you won't let me interfere with anything that " "No, Mr. Hamil, I won't let you interfere with anything."
In reality there were seven of them, of all sizes and sexes, from the third Joshua with a tennis-bat to the youngest who was weeping at being sent to bed, and holding on to her Aunt Susan with desperation. When Honora had greeted them all, and kissed some of them, she was informed that there were two more upstairs, safely tucked away in cribs. "I'm sure you love children, don't you?" said Mrs.
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