What did you say?
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Oh no, I don't think it was.
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NO! Oh no, I didn't mean THAT. I meant, put it in while it
is still boiling--or just before it COMES to a boil.
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WHAT?
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I turned it over with a backstitch 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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