St Nicholas [serial] . g proposed the excursion, andMr. Pinkey having engaged the boat, they invited .whom they pleased to go with them, and a partyof seven was soon formed. Jacob looked wistfully at Alphonse. Of coursehe wanted to go too ; but Alphonse took no noticeof him. And when, after considerable delay, hesaw the boat with its merry occupants push offwithout him, his heart swelled with a sense ofwrong. Avoiding the cable, which was stretched from not go. He was getting a little acquainted with hernow. She came up to him as he stood gazing ovecthe rail at the pleasant woods where the dis
St Nicholas [serial] . g proposed the excursion, andMr. Pinkey having engaged the boat, they invited .whom they pleased to go with them, and a partyof seven was soon formed. Jacob looked wistfully at Alphonse. Of coursehe wanted to go too ; but Alphonse took no noticeof him. And when, after considerable delay, hesaw the boat with its merry occupants push offwithout him, his heart swelled with a sense ofwrong. Avoiding the cable, which was stretched from not go. He was getting a little acquainted with hernow. She came up to him as he stood gazing ovecthe rail at the pleasant woods where the distantlaughter was. Why did nt you go ? she said. I was nt asked to, Jacob replied. Why did nt you go without being asked ? Oh, I didnt like to invite myself where 1was nt wanted. Florie looked into his face with an arch, quizzicaexpression. You are a kind of goose ; dont you think yenare ? Yes, I suppose I am, said Jacob, humbly. Do you think, she cried, if I had wanted t<go in that boat, I would nt have jumped in am. FLORIf. IN THE SKIFF. the stern to the farthest of the fallen trunks on theOhio side, the boat kept on up-stream until itreached a landing-place which suited the bow was run ashore, and the ladieshelped up the slope. Jacob heard their gay voices as they gatheredon the bank, and had glimpses of them as theyclimbed up into the woods that covered the terrace-like bluff. He could hear the laughter of thesisters long after they disappeared from was a romantic charm about it all, whichkept alive his grief at being left behind. His only solace was in thinking that Florie did Ab taki gone ? I mean, if I were a boy like do anything, and nobody minds you do about everything younotion to ? Jacob asked. Oh no, not half the things ! What is there you deny yourself? Oh, for one thing, I d like to step up to yo friend Mr. Pinkey, almost any time of day, and s to him, Please, dont make a fool of yourself a more. Its a dreadful temptati
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