WHAT?
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I turned it over with a backst.i.tch on the selvage edge.
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Yes, I like that way, too; but I think it"s better to baste it on with Valenciennes or bombazine, or something of that sort. It gives it such an air--and attracts so much noise.
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It"s forty-ninth Deuteronomy, sixty-forth to ninety-seventh inclusive. I think we ought all to read it often.
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Perhaps so; I generally use a hair pin.
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What did you say? (ASIDE.) Children, do be quiet!
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OH! B FLAT! Dear me, I thought you said it was the cat!
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Since WHEN?
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Why, _I_ never heard of it.
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You astound me! It seems utterly impossible!
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WHO did?
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Good-ness gracious!
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Well, what IS this world coming to? Was it right in CHURCH?
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And was her MOTHER there?
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Why, Mrs. Bagley, I should have died of humiliation! What did they DO?
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I can"t be perfectly sure, because I haven"t the notes by me; but I think it goes something like this: te-rolly-loll-loll, loll lolly-loll-loll, O tolly-loll-loll-LEE-LY-LI-I-do! And then REPEAT, you know.
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Yes, I think it IS very sweet--and very solemn and impressive, if you get the andantino and the pianissimo right.
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Oh, gum-drops, gum-drops! But I never allow them to eat striped candy.
And of course they CAN"T, till they get their teeth, anyway.
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WHAT?
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Oh, not in the least--go right on. He"s here writing--it doesn"t bother HIM.
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Very well, I"ll come if I can. (ASIDE.) Dear me, how it does tire a person"s arm to hold this thing up so long! I wish she"d--
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Oh no, not at all; I LIKE to talk--but I"m afraid I"m keeping you from your affairs.
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Visitors?
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No, we never use b.u.t.ter on them.
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Yes, that is a very good way; but all the cook-books say they are very unhealthy when they are out of season. And HE doesn"t like them, anyway--especially canned.
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