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“Are you as old as us? We’re seven,” Vilette said a bit loftily, as she discovered herself taller than May Nell. “Have you been to the show this week, Miss Gordon?” He turned from the fire and stood with his back to the cheerful blaze. Awakened to the fact of her son’s existence and perhaps as an antidote to her unusual display of sentiment, Mrs. Wopp spoke rather sharply. “Moses, time you an’ Betty was in bed. You won’t want to git up in the mornin’ an’ milk the cows.” Later left alone in the lower part of the house she stood arms akimbo in the middle of the kitchen gazing at the door through which Nell Gordon had just departed. Shaking her head she said mysteriously, “I kalkerlate as how things is a-settin’ in that way.”.
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Jimmy’s face lost its scorn. Someway the sting of his sarcasm never seemed to touch Billy, who could always strike back a surer if less venomous blow. Perhaps that was the very reason why Jimmy, though larger and older, sought Billy and heeded him as he did no other save his own stern father.I tried logging in using my phone number and I
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“How splendid! You must go, Billy. Do all the boys mind you?”
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“Oh yes,” said Betty solemnly, “they tell me orl their secrets. They call me their Mornin-Glory Girl.” As she spoke she leaned over to touch with her slender, brown fingers one of the pure, white bells. “Just our age.” “All ready?” cried Captain Billy. “Are you ready, Ladybird?” “Take care ole boy, you’ll trip on yer lip in another minute.”.
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