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"You'd better go upstairs and get into your old clothes," Caleb advised him then. "And I'll get you something less less dangerous to wear before night." But the boy stood rigid still. "Will you," he asked, "will you give me another quarter now?" Allison looked up quickly from wiping his eyes. "A quarter," echoed Caleb slowly, even while he reached into his pocket and handed the coin to the boy.
"And how have things gone to-day?" said Mr. Brown cheerfully. "Thank heaven William goes to school to-morrow," said Ethel devoutly. Upstairs in his room William was studying himself in the glass torn jersey, paint-stained trousers, blackened face. "Well," he said with a deep sigh of satisfaction, "I guess I've jolly well helped to-day!" William's family were going to the seaside for February.
How to be rid most quickly of the interloper?... She might, of course, put ashore with him: but she particularly did not care to do that, and have all the piazza loungers and gossips see her in his somewhat too gay company. Most particularly she did not care to have her mother glance out of her upstairs window and be stunned by the same sight, with apoplectic cross-examination to follow ...
The motor-horn sounded again, close at hand, and he turned and went up to his room. Upstairs, the room held out the intimate welcome of its lamp and fire. Everything in it exhaled the same sense of peace and stability which, two evenings before, had lulled him to complacent meditation.
Billy Potter smiled all over his pink face. He followed Mr. Westabrook and Dr. Pierce into the drawing-room. Maida went upstairs with Granny Flynn. Granny Flynn had come straight to the Westabrook house from the boat that brought her from Ireland years ago. She had come to America in search of a runaway daughter but she had never found her.
"Upstairs with me, uncle." Rhoda had succeeded in getting him on his feet. The farmer tapped at his forehead, as a signification to the others that Anthony had gone wrong in the head, which reminded him that he had prophesied as much. He stiffened out his legs, and gave a manful spring, crying, "Hulloa, brother Tony! why, man, eh? Look here. What, goin' to bed? What, you, Tony?
In spite of the seeming assent, she knew that Hepsey was not convinced; and afterward, when she came into the room with the attic lamp and a box of matches, the mystery returned to trouble Ruth again. "If I don't take up tatting," she thought, as she went upstairs, "or find something else to do, I'll be a meddling old maid inside of six months." IV. A Guest
Because you had her brother upstairs, that's no reason why But that's just like these people. You give them an inch and " Jack's cheeks flushed: "But, Corinne! She's offered you a courtesy asked you to her house, and " "I don't care; I'm not going! Would you, Garry?" The son of the Collector hesitated for a moment. He had his own ideas of getting on in the world.
This word, as well as the expression "by-paths tobacco," was used in speaking of the tobacco which was smuggled into the State. "No," answered Don Rocco, rising. "Perhaps I have a little of that upstairs." "Never mind, never mind," the Moro hastened to say. "Give here."
The hostess, who had found me generous, gave us some excellent game and some very fine fish; her daughter served us. She also came to undress my little wife as soon as we had gone upstairs to give ourselves up to the sweet pleasures natural to a young married couple.
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