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“You can just bet your boots I am,” returned Ted, holding out his hand. Bob shook it warmly.,CHAPTER XIII LUCY'S MADNESS,"But why not to-night?" asks her Grace, who has noticed with curiosity the girl's refusal to dance with a lanky young man in a hussar uniform, who had evidently made it the business of the evening to get introduced to her. Indeed, for an hour he had been feasting his eyes upon her fresh young beauty, and, having gone to infinite trouble to get presented to her, had been rewarded for his trouble by a little friendly smile, a shake of the head, and a distinct but kindly refusal to join in the mazy dance.,"There was; but it was all dried up.",“Swing with Captain Jinks, swing with the horse that ate the beans, swing with the girl with the great big feet.”,“Bully for you, Ladybird. I’ve got a backer you see, sister.”,She took the child in her comforting arms. “Don’t cry, little one! We shall find her, never fear.”,Bob was wise enough to wait until Jerry felt like going on. He knew that the other boy must be very much upset, quite shocked out of his customary reserve by the happenings of the day, to say as much as he had. His patience was at length rewarded.,“Golly! Wish’t I had time to stay an’ watch. But I won’t, Betsey; I’ll go right now.”,“Oh, John! My boy!” called Mother from the dining-room window.,She thought he should be in a warmer room, but he begged so hard to stay that she yielded. She put a bell near, that he might call her, and went to him several times before she slept, finding him somewhat restless, yet too profoundly asleep to be wakened by her light touch. Outraged nature was in charge now.,The sunbeam somehow got into the internal decorations of Nancy and filtered out through her eyes. Their amber depths seemed to have turned into liquid gold..