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“I did”
“And devote yourself to pretty Miss West?”
“Danced with her the whole evening”
“No ian of yours?”
“Not the slightest I gaped in her face once, forgot to feed her, and gave a sigh of relief when I handed her over to her mamma”
“Repeat the dose as often as possible, and note the symptoms I predict that you’ll ‘cry for it’ by and by”
“Never! I’m sure it doesn’t suit my constitution”
“We shall see Obey orders!” sternly
“Yes, Doctor,” meekly
Silence reigned for a otten in the pleasant recollections called up by familiar objects, Nan said suddenly:
“What fun we used to have in that wood! Do you re nut-tree and nearly broke your collar-bones?”
“Don’t I! and how you steeped any colour, and Aunt Jo wailed over ain in a minute
“And how you set the house afire?”
“And you ran off for your band-box?”
“Do you ever say ‘Thunder-turtles’ now?”
“Do people ever call you ‘Giddy-gaddy’?”
“Daisy does Dear thing, I haven’t seen her for a week”
“I saw De house for Mother Bhaer”
“She always does when Aunt Jo gets into a vortex Daisy is a model housekeeper; and you couldn’t do better than o to work and wait till you are grown up before you begin lovering”
“Nat would break his fiddle overNo, thank you Another naraved upon my heart as indelibly as the blue anchor on my arm
‘Hope’ is my est”
“You silly boys think weof the kind Hoell Parnassus looks froain
“It is a fine house; but I love old Plues here?” answered Toate to look at the pleasant landscape before them
A sudden whoop startled the over a hedge like a kangaroo, followed by a slender girl, who stuck in the hawthorn, and sat there laughing like a witch A pretty little lass she ith curly dark hair, brigh
t eyes, and a very expressive face Her hat was at her back, and her skirts a good deal the worse for the brooks she had crossed, the trees she had climbed, and the last leap, which added several fine rents
“Take ot my book, and I will have it,” called Josie from her perch, not at all daunted by the appearance of her friends
Tom pro the thorns and set her on her feet without a word of reproof; for having been a roent to like tastes in others “What’s the est rip, while Josie examined the scratches on her hands
“I was studying my part in the , and Ted came slyly up and poked the book out of my hands with his rod It fell in the brook, and before I could scrabble down he was off You wretch, give it back thisand scolding in the same breath
Escaping frolances at the wet, torn young person before him, delivered Claude Melnotte’s famous speech in a lackadaisical way that was irresistibly funny, ending with “Dost like the picture, love?” as he s in a knot and distorting his face horribly
The sound of applause fro folks went up the avenue together very much in the old style when Tom drove four in hand and Nan was the best horse in the teareeted the ladies and sat down on the steps to rest, Aunt Meg sewing up her daughter’s rags while Mrs Jo smoothed the Lion’s reet her friend, and all began to talk
“Muffins for tea; better stay and eat ’em; Daisy’s never fail,” said Ted hospitably
“He’s a judge; he ate nine last tilance at her cousin, as as thin as a lath
“I o and see Lucy Dove She has a whitlow, and it’s ti in her pocket to be sure she had not forgotten her case of instruments