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“I’d love to, Billy,” Mrs. Lancaster whispered; “I’ve never liked being grown up.”,“I’m so sorry our afternoon has been spoiled,” she apologized. “While we wait we might as well have a cup of tea. Maria, rinse the silver teapot with boiling water.”,It is growing dusk; "the shades of night are falling fast," the cold pale sun, that all day long has cast its chill October beams upon a leafless world, has now sunk behind the distant hill, and the sad silence of the coming night hath set her finger with deep touch upon creation's brow.,Pshaw! Ola Ramm was hanging over the railing watching them.,"Why, I am awfully nice!" she cried, delighted with the picture. "I'll never know myself! Do get off your things, Norn, I'm crazy to see how you look.",“Yep,” boasted Harper, “an’ mebbeso we can keep a-puttin’ it off ontwell they git plum tired of tryin’ to buck us cowmen.”,All were silent for a little. Most of them had been more than once to San Francisco’s celebrated dealer in sweets.,At night Johnny lay wide awake, waiting for his mother’s good-night visit.,Those who wish to know something about how the people lived who told these stories will find their ways of life described in the last chapter of this book.,"Paralysis?" suggested David, in a jesting manner, but with some seriousness.,"I owe you much more than I can ever repay," said he, in harsh tones. "All the same, Uncle Jen, I cannot reveal, even to you, what I know. If I did so, you would be the first to blame me.","I think Miss Jinny has hurt her hand, Miss Pat," she said with exaggerated anxiety. "She's got her handkerchief wrapped about it. I hope it isn't badly hurt—she doesn't look as if it were inimical, does she?".