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It may be that atmospheric changes helped to cause the disquiet, for in the midst of an exciting account of a fairy dancing on a moonbeam, a sudden shower descended on the barn and began to pour in a stream through a hole in the roof, immediately over Moses’ head. During Betty’s illness these one-sided dialogues were more than usually plentiful. In this way only was Mrs. Wopp able to alleviate the “gnawin’ at her heart-strings” as she said, at having Betty so ill. It also kept the boy alive to the fact that life’s path was not strewn with “cabbage roses.” Such, at least, were the confidences poured into the sympathetic ear of his pinto. “Don’t look so, brother,” Edith said as she kissed him good-bye; “the ‘grub’ is making a fine boy, and I’m proud of him.” Yet as she tied her veil at the mirror she saw the cloud still lingering on his face..
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"On a golden, Indian summer day like this," she finished and closed her eyes as his arms went about her.I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
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And as she said this she suddenly lifted her eyes half-veiled, dark, and beaming to her father's face.
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“I sorter hoped Moses’d take arter Uncle Josh, too,” she said, regretfully. “Them’s thum,” was the sophisticated answer. “You romp!” came the disgusted voice once more. “You’d better cut your hair, and your skirts, and be a child again.” “She won’t do it; she said so before. She wants to be Alan-bane.”.
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