She turned to Meg. "I want to hear what the piano sounds like, just in case I'm asked to sing this afternoon. Let's try over 'This life is Weary.'" Jose, come here.” Laura caught hold of her sister’s sleeve and dragged her through the kitchen to the other side of the green baize door. There she paused and leaned against it. “Jose!” she said, horrified, “however are we going to stop everything?” Of course, child. Why, what's the matter? What's given you such a colour?" And Mrs. Sheridan turned round from her dressing-table. She was trying on a new hat. My dear child, it's no use asking me. I'm determined to leave everything to you children this year. Forget I am your mother. Treat me as an honoured guest." Velvet Pillow Covers With Piping, Velvet Bolster Pillow Cover in 30 different colors and sizes, Velvet Bolster Pillow Cover, (Only Cover)

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In Fred Bronson’s book The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, writer Christopher Ward was quoted saying he wrote the song while traveling for his job at MuchMusic: The story, colloquially known as “ the girl with the green ribbon,” is a tentpole of Millennial folklore, passed from friend to friend at sleepovers and in schoolyards throughout the late 1980s and beyond. Though it’s often misremembered as an entry in Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, it’s actually from a different collection by the same author: In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Stories, published in 1984 and meant for younger readers. (Technically, the title is just “ The Green Ribbon,” and the girl is named Jenny.)Hallo!" He was half-way upstairs, but when he turned round and saw Laura he suddenly puffed out his cheeks and goggled his eyes at her. "My word, Laura! You do look stunning," said Laurie. "What an absolutely topping hat!" My dear!" trilled Kitty Maitland, "aren't they too like frogs for words? You ought to have arranged them round the pond with the conductor in the middle on a leaf." But all the same you had to cry, and she couldn’t go out of the room without saying something to him. Laura gave a loud childish sob. So they would. Just in time. “Only the basket, then. And, Laura!”—her mother followed her out of the marquee—“don’t on any account—”

And she pointed to the lily-lawn with the hand that didn’t hold the bread-and-butter. They turned, they stared in the direction. A little fat chap thrust out his under-lip, and the tall fellow frowned. Suddenly she looked up. There on the table were all those sandwiches, cakes, puffs, all uneaten, all going to be wasted. She had one of her brilliant ideas.In 1824, four years after the release of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Washington Irving published “ The Adventure of the German Student” in a collection called Tales of a Traveller. The titular student, Gottfried Wolfgang, visits France in the hopes that a change of scenery will cure him of a mental breakdown essentially brought about by too much solitude and studying. Alas, Wolfgang continues that behavior in Paris—where, by the way, the French Revolution is in full swing— becoming “a literary [ghoul], feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature” and retreating further and further into his own imagination. A fancy woman from the French Revolution whose head may or may not be attached. / (Woman) duncan1890/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images; (Diamonds) ilbusca/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images And in an analysis titled “Laura’s Lessons in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Garden Party,’ Sebnem Kaya wrote:

It was a horrible affair all the same,” said Mr. Sheridan. “The chap was married too. Lived just below in the lane, and leaves a wife and half a dozen kiddies, so they say.”

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