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"I haven't had a chance of coming to see you before; though we've always managed I mean auntie and I to hear about you. I would have come to nurse you, but it was no use thinking of it." I smiled as I thanked her. "Ah! you think because I'm such a tom-boy, that I couldn't nurse you. I only wish I had had a chance of letting you see. I am so sorry for you!"
Luckily girls were such uncommon beings with them as to be rather courted than despised, and Rose, having nothing of the tom-boy, did not forfeit the privileges of her sex.
You are no longer the mischief-maker and tom-boy that terrified your family and set the gossips agog in the dear old village. Mind broadens swiftly in war. That one dreadful day at Bull Run enlarged my faculties, or trained them rather, as much as a course in college. Something very serious came into my life that day. It had its effect on you too.
"Aunt Beulah used to call me a tom-boy, and even Max would sometimes say he believed I was half boy; I was always so glad of a chance to slip off to the woods with him where I could run and jump and climb without any body by to scold me and tell me I'd tear my clothes.
Now, if Guy only plays his part and I think he will, for he's absurdly and ridiculously in love with the fair-haired tom-boy she will be caught in the nicest trap ever silly seventeen walked into. She was caged once, and got free. She will find herself caged again, and not get free. I shall have my revenge, and Guy will have his inamorata. I'll send for him at once." Mrs.
Ruth will forgive, of course," said Helen, sharply. "But I won't. They ought to be paid back." "Wouldn't it be best to just cut them right out of our good times?" suggested Belle. "But won't that cut us out of their good times?" urged Heavy. "And boys always do think up better fun than girls." "I never would admit it!" cried Madge. "You always have been a regular Tom-boy, Jennie," said Lluella.
She caressed the horses, feverishly exulting, with charming subdued laughter of victory and welcome, and amused us by leading my horse round to stables, and whistling for one of the lads, playing what may, now and then, be a pretty feature in a young woman of character the fair tom-boy girl.
"That's because he's got so shabby he's quit goin' with em," said Buckalew. "No, it ain't," snapped Mr. Arp. "It's because he's so low down. He's no more 'n a town outcast. There ain't ary one of the girls 'll have a thing to do with him, except that rip-rarin' tom-boy next door to Louden's; and the others don't have much to do with HER, neither, I can tell ye. That Arie Tabor "
She caressed the horses, feverishly exulting, with charming subdued laughter of victory and welcome, and amused us by leading my horse round to stables, and whistling for one of the lads, playing what may, now and then, be a pretty feature in a young woman of character the fair tom-boy girl.
She, poor child, by way of proving her repentance, had tried hard to reform her boisterous tom-boy manners, in order to show him that, although she would not give up her dear old friend Dixon, at his or anyone's bidding, she would strive to profit by his lectures in all things reasonable.
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