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"Ju's got the idea from her last thriller that the Dutchman who used to live at Greycroft buried his treasure somewhere about the place," explained Patricia to Griffin. "I suppose she'll spend her time grubbing this summer.",Judith's voice came plaintively from her room.,My, oh, my! How he had pounded Tellef! But he would really like to know whether any one wouldn’t be a little angry if, when he was sitting on a fence not thinking of a thing, some one should come and poke him in the back with a long stick?,"To prospect; to look for a new field. I figured that the Pennsylvania vein would come out about here and extend northward.",The waterfall's faint drip,,"I will burn them with my own hands," says Mona.,"The very thing, Miss Pat," she agreed radiantly. "I'll look up the number for you.","And perhaps unused to society," puts in Violet, mildly. As she speaks she picks up a tiny feather that has clung to her gown, and lightly blows it away from her into the air.,"Hoist the ensign!" exclaimed Mr Lawrence.,“Wartch yer team Moses,” commanded Mrs. Wopp from the back seat of the democrat.,"Oh, Geoffrey, wasn't it well you went to Ireland and met Mona? Because if you had stayed on here last autumn we might have been induced to marry each other, and then what would have become of poor Jack?",Mrs. Wopp viewed with misgiving the ornate writing not yet erased from the previous lesson. She feared her own handwriting would suffer by comparison..