And at last they found Emily, but they went to a number of toy shops and looked at a great many dolls before they discovered her.
It was necessary to ask some questions, but they must be put quietly and with caution.
Dear Judy: I don't know yet whether the children are going to love me or not, but they DO love my dog.
They looked Caroline over, and were not impressed; but they thanked us politely, and said they would bear her in mind.
I had hoped those two intelligent spinsters would see their way to keeping him forever, but they want to travel, and they feel he's too consuming of their liberty.
I explained that we were full, but they seemed so stranded and aghast, that I told them to sit down while I advised them what to do.
That unkept mound Shows where they slumber united still; Rough is their grave, but they sleep as sound Out on the range as on holy ground, Under the shadow of Kiley's Hill.
His breeding's not known, but they state he Is born of a thoroughbred strain, I paid them a hundred and eighty, And started the horse in the train.
One phrase ran over and over in his mind with damnable iteration--"Mild, but they satisfy!
But they like it, papa; there is nothing they like so much.
His visit he would now defer; but they had a very interesting parley about what could be done and should be done.
The Coles were very respectable in their way, but they ought to be taught that it was not for them to arrange the terms on which the superior families would visit them.
But they were in a state of frenzy, perhaps because of forgotten vanities, and it made an exhibition of sublime recklessness.
You know, Minnie, women aren't all alike, but they're not all different.
But they had to testify now, and they did--and pitiful it was to see how reluctant they were, and how scared.
They knife each other sometimes, and now and again have to be run in wholesale, but they are "good for trade".
They promise us all sorts of money if we win, but they don't pay if we lose.
They explained that any game was equally acceptable to them, but they thought it right to add that they generally played for money.
The big packers did not turn their hands off and close down, like the canning factories; but they began to run for shorter and shorter hours.
The men upon the killing beds felt also the effects of the slump which had turned Marija out; but they felt it in a different way, and a way which made Jurgis understand at last all their bitterness.
It proved to be a long mile and a half, but theywalked it, and half an hour or so later the agent put in an appearance.
They are like lily faces, turtle-head flowers, dewdrops in the shade or moonlight; but they haven't the life in them that I want in the stone I give to the Angel right now.
I'll ask all the girls to come see, but they needn't stick in!
He did not say anything, but they understood it was not to be touched.
I don't know as I'd be calling them exactly pretty, and they do move like a rocking-horse loping, but they are so big and fearless.
Of course, they wanted to, but they couldn't dare.
They implored help, but they were so beside themselves that we couldn't make out what the matter was.
They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work.
Yes, sir; but they had to repair one of her boilers, and so her departure was postponed till to-morrow.
But they can't prevent me from thinking that it would be more natural for us to cross the bridge on foot, and let the train come after!
The inscriptions are post-Aegean by many centuries, but they occur in the part of the island known to Homer as that inhabited by the Eteo-Cretans, or aborigines.
But they do support the theory that our author meant to give an unvarnished account of such words and deeds as had come to his knowledge.
They bear the character of being treacherous and faithless, being bound by no oath, but they appear to be honest in money matters and hospitable, and, however poor, never beg.
But they didn't have a hitter in the bunch," went on Ivy.
The girls at Bascom's are not gossips--they are too busy for that--but they may be said to be delightfully well informed.
I guess they're nice girls all right; but they've got what you call a broader way of looking at things than I have.
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