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The pines, every onct so often, shamed 'em till they blushed deep red, that comes 'long 'bout spring an' fall, but no 'mount o' shamin' ever started them int' springin' up an' seein' fur themselves an' givin' the poplars the lie! Don't ye place no dependence on a poplar, Janet, they be shivery, whisperin' critters!
I could guess near enough how some of them scenes would show up: the bunch gatherin' in one of the little banquet rooms upstairs at Del's., and Bonnie surrounded three deep by admirin' males, perhaps kiddin' Ward McAllister over one shoulder and Freddie Gebhard whisperin' over the other; or after attendin' one of Patti's farewell concerts there would be a beefsteak and champagne supper somewhere uptown above Twenty-third Street and some wild sport would pull that act of drinking Bonnie's health out of her slipper.
I 've simply come to myself; I 'm convinced we 're doing wrong." "But you will wait until morning? until I have talked with Coombs?" I asked anxiously. "Yes," after an instant's hesitation. "There is nothing else I can do." The Texan got noisily to his feet, and swaggered across the floor. "If you all hav' got through yer whisperin'," he said roughly, "I reckon Sally 's got ther grub laid out."
"Boy," she said presently, putting her hand on his knees and closing her tired eyes, "where's that magic carpet? If I could sit on it with you and be taken to where the air's clean and the trees are whisperin' and all the young things hoppin' about I'd give twenty-five years of me life, s'elp me Bob, I would." "Would you, Tootles?" A sudden thought struck Martin.
"And with that she goes. "I kep' looking at the picture-book, as before, listenin' every noo and then, but there was no sound, not a breath, that I could hear; an' I began whisperin' to the pictures and talkin' to myself to keep my heart up, for I was growin' feared in that big room.
But the dog and her relatives stayed back in the buggy and Josiah spoke bitterly to me ag'in but low, "They think it would hurt 'em to associate with me a little, dumb 'm; but I am jest as good as they be any day of the week, if I haint dressed up so fancy." "That's so," sez I, whisperin' back to him, "and don't let it worry you a mite.
"No, thin," replied Mogue, brightening up with excessive vanity, "may I be happy if I do!" "Why, our fair friend, Letty Lenehan begad, Mogue, she's a purty girl that says she to herself," proceeded the pedlar; "for I don't think she knew or thought I heard her 'If I thought he would like these rib-bons, I'd buy them for myself. 'Who do you mane, acushla? says I, whisperin' to her.
Sind me to Parlimint, till I get within whisperin' distance of Misther Gladstone within whisperin' distance, d'ye mind me? Ye'll all get lashins of dhrink, an' free quarthers at the Castle. An' all ye have to do is to pay me, an' pay me well."
"She used to say hit was curious that hit should be 'way up here all alone that she reckollected it ever since SHE was a baby, and she used to come up here and talk to it, and she said sometimes she could hear it jus' a whisperin' to her when she was down home in the cove." "What did she say it said?"
"'Twas quiet as could be for a minute or so after he'd gone. Then Cap'n Zeb draws a big breath and flings up his hand. "'Shipmates, says he, 'this is the Almighty's house and we've got to do it quiet, but I propose three whisperin' cheers for the Rev. John Ellery and the lady that's goin' to be his wife.
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