[Marjorie at Seacote by Carolyn Wells]@TWC D-Link bookMarjorie at Seacote CHAPTER XII 3/20
I think you ought to put 'em all in." "Well, I will then.
How's this? "'-- and a turnip letter, and a boiled-beef letter, and a baked-apple letter, and a soft-boiled egg letter.'" "That's better.
It may not sound like the fashionable people write, but it will please them.
Now thank them for taking care of you." "'I thank you a whole heap for being so good to me, and speaking kindly to me in the railroad train, when I wasn't so very polite to you.'" "Weren't you, Mops ?" "No; I squeezed away from him, 'cause I thought he was rough and rude." "Well, you can't tell him that." "No; I'll say this: "'I wasn't very sociable, Sir, because I have been taught not to talk to strangers, but, of course, those rules, when made, did not know I would be obliged to run away.'" "You weren't _obliged_ to, Midget." "Yes I was, King! I just simply _couldn't_ stay here if I didn't belong, could I? Could you ?" "No, I s'pose not.
I'd go off and go to work." "Well, isn't that what I did? "'But you were kind and good to me, Mr.Geary and Mrs.Geary Both, and I am very much obliged.
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