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She stopped, because Evadna, without a shadow of doubt, was looking bored Miss Georgie regarded her with the frown she used when she was applying her an to suspect that Evadna was, after all, an extremely self-centered little person; she was sorry for the suspicion, and she was also conscious of a certain disappointether for herself
"Ah, well"--she dish that was partly yawn--"aith dull care Aith dull everything It's too hot to think or feel A real emotion is as superfluous and oppressive as a--a 'cah was real and infectiously carefree "Take off your hat, chicken I'll go beg a hunk of ice from my dear friend Peter, and make some lemonade as is lemonade; or claret punch, if you aren't a blue ribboner, or white-ribboner, or soie hated herself for sliding into sheer flippancy, but she preferred that extreround just then at the "happy medium"
Evadna, however, seemed to disapprove of the flippancy She did not take off her hat, and she stated evenly that she o, and that she really did not care for lemonade, or claret punch, either
"What, in Heaven's naie, quite humanly exasperated "There, chicken--the heat always turns me snappy," she repented instantly "Please pinchforearm, and smiled
"I'm the snappy one," said Evadna, but she did not sauntlets slowly and deliberately
If she aiting for Miss Georgie to come back to the subject of Grant, she was disappointed, for Miss Georgie did not come to any subject whatever A handcar breezed past the station, the four section-rade and their haste for their dinner
Huckleberry gave one snort and one tug backward upon the tie rope and then a coltish kick into the air when he discovered that he was free After that, he took off through the sagebrush at a lope, too worldly-wise to follow the trail past the store, where soe away He was a wise little pinto--Huckleberry
"And now, I suppose I'll have the pleasure of walking ho, with much self-pity, after her runaway
"It's noon--stay and eat dinner withhiets to the ranch It's too hot to walk" Miss Georgie laid a hand coaxingly upon her arm