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She reached over and picked the things from Linda's fingers. "If ye know that is your dress, lambie," she said authoritatively, "ye go right out and get into that car and run to town and buy ye a pair of shoes." "But I have no credit anywhere and I have no money, yet," said Linda.
And your Grandma's pies not out of the oven!" Grandma, too, had seen the gray horse and buggy, and she hurried down in her pretty black and white dress. "Hook my collar, please, Araminta," she whispered. "And I am sure the pies are done. You can take them out very carefully and set them where they'll cool. You'll be good, won't you, lambie? There goes the door-bell."
On the morrow I should begin a new life in a world of wonders, and I rejoiced to think that there was more than merchandise in the prospect. I had not been a week in the place before I saw one thing very clear that I should never get on with Mr. Lambie. His notion of business was to walk down the street in a fine coat, and to sleep with a kerchief over his face in some shady veranda.
Commissioner Lambie gives a census, for the district of Manero, of 416 males and 321 females, or an excess of the former over the latter of nearly 45 per cent. It would appear that the disproportion of the sexes increases in a ratio corresponding to the length of time a district has been occupied by settlers and their stock, and to the density of the European population residing in it.
He likes the pictures I make; and, Katy, you won't believe it till I show you my little bank book, but for the three already published with their illustrations he pays me five hundred nice, long, smooth, beautifully decorated, paper dollars!" "Judas praste!" cried Katy, her hands once more aloft. "Ye ain't manin' it, lambie?" "Yes, I are," laughed Linda.
He heard her to the end without a word, but she noticed that he gripped the chair hard. When she had finished he swept her into his arms and broke down over her, calling her the pet names of her childhood. "Honey-bird ... Dad's little honey-bird ... I'm that ashamed of myse'f. 'Twas the whisky did it, lambie. Long as I live I'll nevah touch it again. I'll sweah that befo' God.
"Your grandfather was quite disturbed over it, and I was terribly frightened. We knew something must have happened. What was it, lambie? Where do you feel badly?" Joy looked away from the wall, at her grandmother's kind, anxious, wrinkled little face under the lace lappets.
It means, too, that I shall be able to repay your loan immediately and to do the things that I wanted to do about the house." "Now I ain't in any hurry about that money, lambie," said Katy; "and you understand of course that the dress you're wearing' I am given' ye." "Of course, old dear, and you should have seen Peter Morrison light up and admire it. He thinks you have wonderful taste, Katy."
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