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"Yes," said the other; "and if I were you, Almira, I would take it without hesitating a moment. You can afford it just as well as not." "It is so high!" said Almira, doubtingly, and holding up the bracelet, so as to see the light reflected from the surfaces of the precious stones. "I don't think it is high at all," said her friend; "that is, for such stones and such setting.
Almira barked furiously at the new-comer, who came swinging along with defiant nonchalance, like one who knows that it is other people's duty to protect him. Noémi told the dog to lie down, but it gave no heed; she caught the creature's ears in both hands and drew it back: the dog whined and growled at the discomfort, but did not cease barking.
Almira and her assistant listened, as what woman would not? heard the courteous, cordial tone of inquiry for Mrs. Davies, and Katty's flurried "Begs to be excused, mum," and there was no need of the question which Mrs. Flight asked, "Who was it, Katty?" for both knew Mrs. Cranston's voice.
An exciting interview soon took place in the middle of the road, and Almira reentered the room with the expression of one who had penetrated the inscrutable and solved the riddle of the Sphinx. She had been vouch-safed one of those gleams of light in darkness which almost dazzle the beholder. "That's about the confirmingest thing I've heern yet!" she ejaculated, as she took off her shaker bonnet.
"I'll git home in time ter bake a batch er gingerbread fer tea," she continued, "Joel's paowerful fond er gingerbread an' it'll sort er pay him fer eatin' such a dinner with such endurin' patience." Almira Meeks lay back in the big old fashioned rocker, too tired, she declared, to care "whether school kept or not."
From what Mattheson says of Handel on his first arrival in Hamburg, it is quite likely that he was contemptuous of Italian opera music, and it is equally likely that after the success of Almira his views on Italian opera underwent a change.
Hunt all about it, and as one of the Guild which looked after such things, it had been voted to give Miss Almira some such present, and Mrs. Hunt had gone with Mrs. Perkins to select it. They had all agreed that Marian's choice was such a good one that it must be bought if possible, and fortunately Mrs. Hunt was able to get the very wrapper she wanted.
"I wrote your Aunt Almira, half promising that you should go to see them after school closed." "Oh, Daddy!" shrieked Janice again. "To Poketown?" "You won't find it so bad. And you need a rest, I believe. This old house " "Oh! you sha'n't talk so about our beautiful home," gasped Janice. "If it is going to be such a burden to you, my dear " "It isn't!
In view of Handel's strictly honourable character it is difficult to believe that he was guilty of neglect, and we may naturally suppose him to have resented the loss of a lucrative appointment. The first opera of the autumn was not Handel's Almira, but an opera by Mattheson, called Cleopatra.
Somehow he always felt sure that his turn would come presently, and that Almira Jane would be sorry she had called him such a hard name, and would be only too pleased to have him look over the beans for the bean-pot, and fill the wood-box, and do all the other little kitchen chores that he delighted in. There were sure to be pleasant times after one of Almira Jane's nervous attacks.
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