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Patricia, though a bit disappointed, felt delightfully superior as she replied loftily, "It isn't so bad. We don't mind, you know, because we're so interested in the work.","I hear this dance at the Chetwoodes' is to be rather a large affair," says Geoffrey, indifferently. "I met Gore to-day, and he says the duchess is going, and half the county.",Jen started, and looked sharply at the old man, who, to all appearances, was answering his questions with all possible candor.,It was a sure hand that raised the old gun, a sure eye that glanced along its brown barrels. At the first loud report of the black powder the leader of the flock crumpled up and the second in command drifted sidewise from the flock. The left barrel spoke and a third duck twisted from the remainder of the flock, to fall with a splash into the water.,"He shall wait upon you at the stroke, sir.","I wonder what Miss Jinny will say to a costume?" Patricia said, her bright face clouding with the thought.,Sir William laughed.,"Where away?",David, grinning broadly, cast a rather sheepish glance at the hurrying throng.,Wilson came over and laid a work-hardened hand gently on her heaving shoulder.,But Mickey is not to be outdone. "An' there's the pigs, miss," he begins again, presently.,“I thought you might like to have this.” And Johnny Blossom placed the pill box on the table and gazed expectantly into Aunt Grenertsen’s wrinkled face..