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"I s'pose you'll be scooping up all the honors that are lying round loose at Redmond"

"I may try for one or two of thes like that as I did two years ago What I want to get out oflife and doing the most and best with it I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself"

Mr Harrison nodded

"That's the idea exactly That's what college ought to be for, instead of for turning out a lot of BA's, so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ain't rooe won't be able to do you e after tea, taking with them all the flowery spoil that several predatory expeditions in their own and their neighbors' gardens had yielded They found the stone house agog with excite around with such vim and briskness that her blue bows see everywhere at once Like the helmet of Navarre, Charlotta's blue boaved ever in the thickest of the fray

"Praise be to goodness you've cos to doand the frosting on that cake WON'T hardenand there's all the silver to be rubbed up yetand the horsehair trunk to be packedand the roosters for the chicken salad are running out there beyant the henhouse yet, crowing, Miss Shirley,I was thankful when Mr Irving cao and took her off for a walk in the woods Courting's all right in its place, Miss Shirley,everything's spoiled That's MY opinion, Miss Shirley, ma'am"

Anne and Diana worked so heartily that by ten o'clock even Charlotta the Fourth was satisfied She braided her hair in innumerable plaits and took her weary little bones off to bed

"But I'm sure I shan't sleep a blessed wink, Miss Shirley,at the last 'll have a stroke and not be able to co strokes, is he?" asked Diana, the di To Diana, Charlotta the Fourth was, if not exactly a thing of beauty, certainly a joy forever