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"Well, I just guess it isn't any game," retorted Judith with a toss of her mane. "It's the most important thing in life to me," and she stalked off towards the door with great dignity.,"Well, then?" Billy sat down on a corner of the table and eyed his friend reproachfully.,“No use,” said Johnny. “I’ll have to stand under the tree and hold the basket, while you shake the apples into it. Then they won’t whack on the ground and bruise themselves.”,"Oh, Mona, will you always love me as you do now?",“Mother has gone to a luncheon party today.”,He learned that an intimacy had for some time subsisted between Maria and the Cavalier de Vincini; and that the assignation was usually held at the pavilion on the sea-shore, in an evening. Baptista farther declared, that if the marquis desired a confirmation of his words, he might obtain it by visiting this spot at the hour mentioned.,Here she produced a picture of a nest of young robins, their beaks wide open for a tempting morsel hanging from the bill of father robin.,"Yep, Jim Scroggie.",He was suddenly hailed from the gate by a loud, hearty voice.,"But I assure you, David, the handkerchief is hers.",Leaf II. A Love-Letter, Loaded.,"Have you seen a letter," cried Mr Lawrence, "a broad piece of paper folded into four lying in the road?".