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"To-morrow," she smiled, with a hint of tears, "I'll be a reg'lar lady, I guess, and make you explain and explain like everything, but now I'm just glad. Yes," defiantly, "I will admit it if I want to! I am glad!" Her door closed. Upon an evening of November, 1911, it chanced that of Mrs. Arty's flock only Nelly and Mr. Wrenn were at home.
"What will Aunt Zenobie say?" she said half afraid. "Oh well...." began Perrine. "Oh well, I don't care," said Rosalie defiantly, "I've enjoyed myself ... and you?" "Well, if you who have people to talk to every day have enjoyed yourself, how much more have I who never have anybody to talk to," said Perrine ruefully. "I've had a lovely time," she sighed.
I 'ad a remarkable strong growth when I was quite a boy. While other boys was " "Shut-up!" vociferated Mr. Kidd. "Sha'n't!" said Mr. Gibbs, defiantly. "I've 'ad enough of being away from my comfortable little 'ome and my wife; and I'm going to let 'em start growing agin this very night. She'll never reckernize me without 'em, that's certain." "He's right, Bob," said Mr. Brown, with conviction.
That did not mean expulsion, but it did mean that, until the school authorities had taken definite action on the case, young Prescott could not again attend H.S., or any other school under the control of the Board of Education. The five other partners of Dick & Co. had faced the school defiantly when taking Dick's books from his desk and strapping them to bring home.
"I never saw such a crew of unhealthy, wretched-looking children in my life as swarm about those cottages. We take the rent, and we ought to look after them. I believe you could be forced to do something, papa if the local authority were of any use." She looked at him defiantly. "Nonsense," said Mr. Boyce testily. "They got along in your Uncle Robert's days, and they can get along now.
To the left a bit of Main Street was visible, and the naked branches of the elms and maples with which it was bordered were waving defiantly at their rivals over the way, incited thereto by a northwest wind. We invariably form a mental picture of every unknown person of whom we think at all.
"Well, ma, I just know they're coming." A voice retorted with the shrillness and mechanical violence of occasional housewives. The girl swished her skirts defiantly and returned to the window. Upon the yellow streak of road that lay across the hillside there now was a handful of black dots horsemen. A cloud of dust floated away.
Treherne's questions curtly, rejected the faintest suggestion of money as an insult, and stood eyeing Graham defiantly while the talk went on. "Madelon has grand new friends now," she was thinking all the time very likely, "and will go away and be happy, and forget all about me; well, let her go what does it matter?"
The best place to catch it is right behind its ears," came the boy's quick response. Burleigh looked back defiantly at Burgess as he disappeared indoors. And the antagonism born in the meeting of these two men in the morning took on a tiny degree of strength in the afternoon. "What a wonderful voice, Vincent. It makes one want to hear it again," Elinor exclaimed.
Grace answered, with a sob, running to her sister and putting her arms round her neck. "Well, you needn't be; I don't care," Lulu said defiantly, and with a little stamp of her foot. "No, not if all the old tyrants in the world were angry with me!" "Oh, Lu, don't talk so!" entreated Grace; "and you do care if papa is displeased? Our own dear papa who loves us so dearly?"
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