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Philip knocked, and, after a considerable interval, the door was opened by another old woman, tidier and cleaner than the old women who pervaded the yard, but looking very like a near relation to those ladies. Philip inquired in French for the senior Mr. Kerstall; and the old woman told him, very much through her nose, that Mr. Kerstall father saw no one; but that Mr.
In the meantime Miss Anne did not forget to visit the cabin, and cheer, as well as she could, the trouble of poor Martha, whose good and proud housewifery had kept Fern's Hollow cleaner and tidier than any of the cottages at Botfield.
He had heavy shoulders, the sort a girl might rely on to carry many burdens. A younger and tidier Uncle James, indeed the same cheery manner, the same robust integrity, and the same small ambition.
Only I flatter myself that it is tidier here than it used to be in the old days." He laughed, and the laughter sent the light shining in his eyes. "Rather! When I first joined I had the chemical craze on, do you remember? I thought I was going to discover some wonderful new gunpowder, and we used to experiment together in your room.
Did you ever see such a beauty? Don't disturb him. Oh, do be careful!" But Esther looked with only half-interest at the gorgeous insect; then, turning away a little impatiently, "I don't know how you can be out here so much and not try to make it a little tidier," she said vexedly. "I only wish I had a machine, or shears or something, and more time, and I would do something to it."
I wish you'd be a little tidier when you come here, uncle; it looks bad for the house." "I came away in a hurry to oblige you," said Mr. Porson. "I don't think this is a time to talk about button-holes." "I thought you were going to say something," retorted Miss Tipping, scathingly, "and you might as well talk about that as anything else." "It ain't right," said Mrs.
As usual when the canneries are running, I'm my own upstairs girl. I reckon your young man here thinks I ought to discharge her and get one that's tidier." "Your young man here" was stiffly touching the brim of his top hat and saying: "Beg parding, ma'am." "Oh, that's all right," replied Mrs. Ranger; "I am what I look to be!"
I've kept stalling from day to day, because there were also indications that your grabber friends might be getting set to swing at you finally. It seemed tidier to get that matter cleared up first. Now they've swung, and we'll go." He rubbed his chin. "The nice thing about it all," he remarked, "is that we're going there with the two items the opposition has revealed it wants.
For the house really was tidier and less neglected, her father came home regularly now, and was with them more, and she herself had something to do, some object in life, some work that she could do herself, and take a pride in.
I whitewashed the walls myself, and after a while began to whitewash the walls of the landing as well, and all down the stair, which was not of much use to the eye, for there is no light. Before long some of the other tenants began to whitewash their rooms also, and contrive to keep things a little tidier.
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