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??? ????? ???? 51 The happenings of Christmas day came in the following manner: "Well, but is that altogether a falsehood? Pigs and smoke and live fowls and babies are, I am convinced, good things in their own way and when well at a distance. But, under the roof with one and in an apartment a few feet square, I don't think I seem to care about them, and I'm sure they can't tend towards cleanliness.","It is as I thought, Mr. Stanhope. Your sight is quite unimpaired and can be restored to you by a simple operation. Your blindness was caused either from a blow or a fall, was it not?","It is a fact," insisted Jen. "I have the evidence of Jaggard to prove that Dido was in the room on that night.","Comin', Ma," responded Anse, sleepily.,"Miss Dallas!" said Etwald, in no wise moved by this speech.，“Isobel, play one of your pieces, let’s see how your recital helped you to-day.”，“Yes, when you and sister turn gray getting it out of me. No, I’m going to do real work that will earn money; and I’m going to take this never-get-enough grub-basket of mine to a table where my own hands have earned the grub.”，"Yes; I know it! Oh, do not wait to ask questions, but go. Even now they may have suspected my purpose, and may be coming here to prevent your ever returning.""It would be kind of you," says he, gratefully. "She will want to know all, and you will do it more tenderly than the others. Do not dwell upon my sins; and say I died—happy. Let her too have a copy of the paper Dr. Bland has now."

"Poor soul! poor soul!" says Mona, brokenly; then she drops her hand, and the woman, turning again to the lifeless body, as though in the poor cold clay lies her only solace, lets her head fall forward upon it.,"You was in the run first, wasn't you?" said Billy, coldly.,"And thinks you perfection?" in an impossible tone, losing both his head and his temper completely. "He is rich, I suppose; why don't you marry him?",She glances at her watch. It is now a quarter past three; so there is no time to be lost. She must hasten.,“My papa told me to be a very brave little girl, and no matter what happened to take care of my mama. And now—I’ve l-lost her; and my braveness is all leaking away.” She covered her face with her hands and sobbed bitterly.,"How I wish it didn't!" says Mona, with a sigh.,"What has he done?" asks Geoffrey, somewhat bewildered and greatly distressed at her apparent grief.,"Not at all," rejoined Jen, coldly. "I can understand her reason for telling the lie. She wanted to shield--",Billy arose and moving softly to the stove picked up the harmless milk snake, squirming and protesting, from the warm floor. O'Dule watched him with fascinated eyes. The big cat had risen and with back fur and tail afluff spit vindictively as Billy passed out through the door.,"Insolence, sir, is perhaps another part of your role," returns she, with cold but excessive anger.,"Oh! Nicholas, it can't be true! it really can't!" she says, alluding to the news contained in a letter Sir Nicholas is reading with a puzzled brow.,Elinor responded promptly..