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"Molly," she said with a deliciously young giggle, "Tom says you are to send him two guineas to spend getting the brass band to polish up before the six o'clock train, by which your Mr. Bennett comes. He has spent a guinea already to induce them to clean up their uniforms, and it cost him five pounds to bail the cornettist out of gaol for roost robbing. He says I am to tell you that, as this is your festivity, you ought at least to pay the piper. Hurry up, he's waiting for me, and here's the kiss he told me to put on your left ear!",“Why, John! Are you standing there in your night gown painting?”,The humblest need not quite despair of success.,Having disposed of the song, dear to her mother’s heart, in spite of the protestations of Moses, Betty went to the kitchen and in a few moments returned with a steaming pot of tea.,"By what right do you say that?" demanded Maurice, sharply.,Maurice sat down weakly on a block and wiped his face on his sleeve.,But May Nell was not to be comforted, till that evening when she composed a wonderful ode to “The Wreck of the Fair Ellen.”,"I wish I were in the night life," she said resentfully. "I envy you, Norn, being among live people.",Of the jolly old tree.,"Ah-h-w-o-o-o! Ah-h-w-o-o-o-o!" he howled, and when the other wolves heard him they all came running to see what was the matter. Following the big wolves came also many coyotes, badgers, and kit-foxes. They did not know what had happened, but they thought perhaps there was food here.,"D'ye mean handsome, Lucy?" said Captain Acton. "For the dog is that.","Obi!" was the brief reply. "You hab told ole Dido what she wish about de debble-stick.".