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"Der double, and then the ditter double of that, if it don't make more than twenty." "You surprise me, Dunning. Are you sure?" "Sure as that I am der talking to Captain Woodburn." "Impossible! It must be some secret meeting of the disaffected in this quarter."
The captain was in some haste to return to Woodburn, and Rosie and Walter, finding they wanted to stay a while with Evelyn and their sister Elsie's children, decided to walk back to Ion; the distance being none too great for either their strength or enjoyment.
Mother is really a wonderful woman. Twenty minutes later she sent a telegram to Mrs. "What Great Disappointment are you talking about?" "Infant in Arms! Why, Stan and Miss Woodburn." "I didn't know nobody told me " "Fancy needing to be told! As if that weren't the only reason why Mother smiled on Mrs. Ess Kay in the beginning.
That Patience Longstaffe, the Puritan daughter of Preacher Joe, should marry the old trainer was a matter of amazement to all. But she did; and nobody had reason to think that she ever regretted it. Patience Longstaffe became in time Ma Woodburn, though she remained Patience Longstaffe still.
I told the cabman to wait, and then ran up the four or five steps to ring the front door bell. In a minute a maid came who would have been very smart-looking if she had only worn a proper cap. "Is Miss Woodburn stopping here?" I asked.
The boy went, slow and sullen. Then he became aware of people watching beyond the ropes and recovered himself with a jerk. "Yes, Miss. Very good, Miss," he cried cheerfully, touched his hat, and began to run as on an errand. It was a pretty piece of bluff. Boy Woodburn, in spite of her anger, marked it down to the credit side of the lad's account. When he was collared, Albert Edward kept his head.
"The system won't accept destruction on any othah tomes," said Miss Woodburn, demurely. At the reception, where two men in livery stood aside to let him pass up the outside steps of the house, and two more helped him off with his overcoat indoors, and a fifth miscalled his name into the drawing-room, the Syracuse stone-cutter's son met the niece of Mrs.
Leighton, pushing some of her work aside to make room for it and standing over her while she bent forward to look at it. Alma kept her place, away from the table. "Mah goodness! Ho' exciting!" said Miss Woodburn. "May anybody look?" "Everybody," said Beaton. "Well, isn't it perfectly choming!" Miss Woodburn exclaimed.
"That which will scatter the blackest part of that cloud on your brow, I trust, my dear fellow," replied Allen, with an animated and exulting air. "Here, look at this!" he added, pulling out and presenting a small and closely-folded letter. With trembling eagerness, Woodburn seized the missive, and, with a glance at the well-known hand of the superscription, "To Captain Woodburn, or Mr.
He had hoped to find an ally in his cousin's husband, and now what should he do? He had concluded that as an honest man he had done his duty when he had written to Woodburn; but now as a man of honour what should he say to James Penhallow? To conceal from his host what he had done was the obvious business-like course.
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