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"We looked about for you everywhere," said Munt, "and shouted ourselves dumb." Miss Anderson passed near Alice. "I knew where you were all the time!" Then the whole party fell to praising the novel conception of the bouquets of blueberries, and the talk began to flow away from Alice and Mavering in various channels.
'In that case, said Waverley, determined not to spare civility, 'I should have thought a person of your appearance would not have been found on the road. 'Vera true, vera true, sir, replied the officer, 'but every why has its wherefore. Ye maun ken, the laird there bought a' thir beasts frae' me to munt his troop, and agreed to pay for them according to the necessities and prices of the time.
Why, then Victor, my brother-in-law, collected many tadpoles " "You are not to say 'stink," interrupted Helen; "at least, you may say it, but you must pretend you are being funny while you say it." "Then 'smell. And the mud of your Pool down there does it not smell, or may I say 'stink, ha, ha?" "There always has been mud in Poole Harbour," said Mrs. Munt, with a slight frown.
Bowing, even calling and leaving cards, even a dinner-party we can do all those things to the Wilcoxes, if they find it agreeable; but the other thing, the one important thing never again. Don't you see?" Mrs. Munt did not see, and indeed Margaret was making a most questionable statement that any emotion, any interest once vividly aroused, can wholly die.
Munt should be the first to discover the misfortune was not remarkable, for she was so interested in the flats, that she watched their every mutation with unwearying care. In theory she despised them they took away that old-world look they cut off the sun flats house a flashy type of person.
Not a dull note from beginning to end. I only wish that our German friends would have stayed till it finished." "But surely you haven't forgotten the drum steadily beating on the low C, Aunt Juley?" came Tibby's voice. "No one could. It's unmistakable." "A specially loud part?" hazarded Mrs. Munt. "Of course I do not go in for being musical," she added, the shot failing.
Munt; but it was dangerous, and disaster was bound to come. How right she was, and how lucky to be on the spot when the disaster came! The train sped northward, under innumerable tunnels. It was only an hour's journey, but Mrs. Munt had to raise and lower the window again and again.
They did so accordingly, when Mr Burton and John Munt went on board the Minion, where the Frenchmen were, and it was determined that they should wait eight days beside us, allowing us to trade quietly the while. They were much dissatisfied with this arrangement, and sailed next morning eastwards to the Rio de Potos, on purpose to hinder our trade on the coast.
Munt was so disconcerted that she exclaimed, "What, Helen, you don't mind them coming, do you?" and deepened the blush to crimson. "Of course I don't mind," said Helen a little crossly. "It is that you and Meg are both so absurdly grave about it, when there's nothing to be grave about at all." "I'm not grave," protested Margaret, a little cross in her turn.
"You will remember, Aunt Juley, not to be drawn into discussing the engagement. Give my letter to Helen, and say whatever you feel yourself, but do keep clear of the relatives. We have scarcely got their names straight yet, and, besides, that sort of thing is so uncivilised and wrong." "So uncivilised?" queried Mrs. Munt, fearing that she was losing the point of some brilliant remark.
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