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Percival, promise me that you will never hint at this again!" He bent and kissed her. His course lay plain before him; and if an ugly mountain rose up before his mind's eye, shadowing forth not voluntary but forced separation, he would not look at it in that moment. "What could mamma mean?" she asked. "I shall ask her." "Maude, oblige me by saying nothing about it.
Go and get a nice large band-box made, and put him in with plenty of cotton-wool and a pap-bottle, labelled 'With care this side up, and send him back to mamma." "I think I shall make a hand of him though," said Tom, smiling, "say what you will. There's something about him, every now and then, which shows me he's got pluck somewhere in him.
"At present the young ladies of Mexico are rather ashamed of the habit." "We no smoke Mamma, yes," added the elder the brunette whose name was Guadalupe. "Ha! you speak English?" "Little Englis speak no good Englis," was the reply. "Who taught you English?" I inquired, prompted by a mysterious curiosity. "Un American us teach Don Emilio." "Ha! an American?"
"I wanted to reach some figs," said he, "when you and Fritz were at Tent House, and Jack and Ernest were nursing mamma; I wished to do some good for her. I thought she would like some of our sweet figs; but there were none in my reach, and I had no stick long enough to beat them down. I went below, and found that great roll of wire.
Lady Markland held him close to her, and quick tears sprang to her eyes. "It is nothing to make any fuss about, mamma. Sometimes I like it. I listen, and you are very funny when you talk. That is, not you, but Theo Warrender. He talks as if nothing was right but only as you thought. I suppose he thinks you are very clever."
Supper is ready, and papa has come, and mamma sent us to call you." And Fred shouted in a still louder tone: "Come along, Oscar; papa is asking for you." All was over. His aunt opened the door at once, and Oscar had to follow her.
"I remember how mad Mamma was once when the minister ate two pieces of pie and she had to make another the next day or divide one piece between you and me." "I'll bet she made another. She always fed us, and I remember that the kids around the corner couldn't even have bread and molasses between meals."
"Say, Bos'n," he said a few minutes later; "I've been thinkin' about you. You've been to school, haven't you?" "Course I have," was the rather indignant answer. "I went two years in Concord. Mamma used to help me nights, too. I can read almost all the little words. Don't I help you read your paper 'most every night?" "Sartin you do! Yes, yes!
I tried to appear very heroic as I made this speech, but with all my efforts I completely failed. Mamma looked at me a moment in surprise, but then, with more than usual fondness, she strained me to her heart, and I felt a tear fall on my cheek.
Go look in the glass. Your stockings are tumbling over your shoes, and your jacket is all awry. How will your Mamma Letitia like that? Run, then! I hear the carriage wheels! In with you, little Down-at-the-heel!" Smarting under the girl's teasing, and all the more because it came from her, Napoleon sulked into the house. But Panoria still swung on the gate.
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