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The Little Colonel’s Chum: Mary Ware

CHAPTER V
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Will you ever forget the way she rang the changes on 'my Uncle Willie'?
I used to quote that line from Tennyson under my breath--'_A quinsy choke thy cursed note!_' It was 'Uncle Willie says this isn't good form' and 'Uncle Willie says they don't do that in England' till you got worn to a frazzle having that old Anglomaniac eternally thrown at your head.

But the more Mary quotes Jack the better you like him." "I wonder how he feels about Mary taking this way to earn his Christmas present." "Oh, of course he doesn't know she is doing it, and of course he wouldn't like it if he did.

But he'd have hard work stopping her.

She is as full of energy and determination as a locomotive with a full head of steam on, and I imagine he's exactly like her.

She fondly imagines that he will be governor of Arizona some day." "There!" exclaimed Dorene.


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