human
What's the matter? Don't you want to hear it?
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Oh, yes, it isn't that, said Agnes, with a smile, which caused Neale's lips to part in an answering one, showing his white teeth that made a contrast to his tanned face.
human
But we have just passed through rather a strenuous time, Neale, and if you have anything more startling to tell us about Tess and Dot--
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Oh, it isn't about them! laughed Neale O'Neil.
human
They're all right. I just saw them going down the street.
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Thank goodness! murmured Ruth.
human
I thought they had got into more mischief. Well, go on, Neale, and tell us the news. Is it good?
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The best ever, he answered, sobering down a little.
human
The only trouble is that there isn't very much of it. Only a sort of rumor, so to speak.
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Sit down, said Agnes, and she herself suited her action to the words.
human
Uncle Rufus has the spilled trash cleaned up now.
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Yes'm, it's done all cleaned up now, murmured the old colored servant as he departed, having made the side porch presentable again.
human
But I suah does wish dat trash man'd come 'roun' yeah befo' dem two chilluns come back. Dey's gwine to upsot dat barrel ag'in, if dey gets a chanst; dey suah is!
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What happened? asked Neale.
human
An accident?
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You might call it that, assented Ruth, sitting down beside her sister.
human
It was a combination of Tess, Dot, Alice-doll and Almira all rolled into one.
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That's enough!
human
Master Jakeway and was the son of James O'Neil. Neale's uncle, William Sorber, was the ringmaster and lion tamer in the show billed as
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Twomley & Sorber's Herculean Circus and Menagerie.