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Covers I promise to tell it to you some other time--perhaps to-morrow.” “Go and wash up and come down quickly,” urged Bob’s new boss. “It’s almost sunset, and I don’t want you to miss it! I’ll wait for you here on the porch.”,Patricia and Elinor puckered their brows over it, but Miss Jinny, craning her head over their shoulders, gave a snort.,"My dear fellow, let well alone," says Nicholas, with his slow, peculiar smile. "It was I induced Mona to dance with 'that fellow,' as you call him. Forgive me this injury, if indeed you count it one.","Throw them away," said his father; "throw them both away. That is not a root digger; that is not a dog.","But I assure you, David, the handkerchief is hers."，A pause.，Geoffrey is the taller man of the two, but Paul the more lithe and sinewy. For a moment they sway to and fro; then Geoffrey, getting his fingers upon his cousin's throat, forces him backward.，"Good-bye, Sir William," said Lucy, and in silence the two gentlemen watched her walk to the gate and pass out.Patricia made a laughing face.

"The poor fellow is calling for you, Mona, incessantly," he says. "It remains with you to decide whether you will go to him or not. Geoffrey, you should have a voice in this matter, and I think she ought to go.",Jean hid a queer little smile that she could not repress.,"'And the message,' he says, 'this is ut: "Off Gibson's Grove at tin o'clock,"' says he.",Peace to your dust!,"She'll come," said Billy, and went out, closing the door softly behind him.,“Thank you, Bob,” he said slowly. “But I can’t let you give up your ambition for mine. You would not be happy, nor after a time would I, for I realize that your desire to be an engineer is not just a whim. You could not be a good lawyer unless your heart were in it, and I don’t want a son of mine to be anything but a good lawyer, if he’s one at all. I’d far rather have you a good engineer than an almost good lawyer. You will have to try out your plan. If it works, well and good; if it doesn’t, you can still try something else. You are old enough to decide for yourself, my son.”,“Eleven years old in four months and”—he began to reckon exactly how many days over there were before he should be eleven years old, but he did not have time because the Admiral lifted him suddenly and stood him on the table. Right up on the top of the handsome library table!,And thrill the ear with wildly-pleasing fear.,"You'll admit, sir, that my failure to obtain employment has not been due to neglect in searching for it.",“It would be just like you to stand on the table,” she said dryly. “And if the people had any bringing up, of course they shook hands with you as with everybody else.”,He raised his face at sound of the boy's step. "Ho, Billy!" he called cheerfully. "Is it you?","Go 'long in and tackle it while it's hot," advised Landon. "I'll start in on pluckin' these birds. But first we'll have to let Chick see 'em. Say, Billy, they're nigh as big as tame 'uns!".