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When you and my boy are strong enough to do it, come and take possession of your home." Ada called him "her dearest cousin, John." But he said, no, it must be guardian now. He was her guardian henceforth, and the boy's; and he had an old association with the name. So she called him guardian, and has called him guardian ever since. The children know him by no other name.
It is the spirit with which that dagger was cast will destroy her far quicker than the wound." Ada now entreated him to examine into his sister's condition; and at length, grown more calm, he set skilfully about his office, and he confessed that, if fever did not set in, the wound was of slight importance.
"No, never, Esther." "Why then, my dear," said I, "there can be nothing amiss and why should you not speak to us?" "Nothing amiss, Esther?" returned Ada. "Oh, when I think of all these years, and of his fatherly care and kindness, and of the old relations among us, and of you, what shall I do, what shall I do!"
"There are some things a man can never learn," the mid-Victorian Ada said to herself, when Sir Francis prophesied that she would find a companion a bore. "And one is that a woman, however happily situated in a man's house, must have another woman easy of access to talk with, to sew with, to whisper to." A Householder
Leon clinched his fist, as Uncle Israel continued: "I seen to getting them a place in the country and then tended to 'em generally for more than six months, when I one day hinted to Mrs. Linwood that I would like to be her son-in-law. Christopher! how quick her back was up, and she gave me to understand that I was lookin' too high! 'Twas no go with Ada, and after awhile I proposed to the mother.
Miss Matilda had peeped through a crack of the door and made this observation and the remark founded thereon. Continuing her attitude of attention, she overheard Mrs. Crane and her two daughters conversing in the attiring-room, up one flight. "How fine everything is in the great house!" said Mrs. Crane, "jest look at the picters!" "Matildy Sprowle's drawin's," said Ada Azuba, the eldest daughter.
Quale asked Ada and me, not inaudibly, whether he was not a great creature which he certainly was, flabbily speaking, though Mr. Quale meant in intellectual beauty and whether we were not struck by his massive configuration of brow. In short, we heard of a great many missions of various sorts among this set of people, but nothing respecting them was half so clear to us as that it was Mr.
This sort of thing had happened too often, and I made up my mind I would not live in this moral fog another moment. So I went to Ada. "Ada," I said, "I am your mother, and I think I have a right to ask you a question. I want to know this: what has that young man been doing?" "I suppose you mean Harry," Ada answered. "He hasn't been doing anything.
Ada called her a fool; they nearly quarrelled. When their turn came, the Canon advanced to meet them, setting them at their ease with a few kindly words, less a priest than a courteous host welcoming his guests. He seemed not to notice Jonah's deformity. But, as he read the service, he was the priest again, solemn and austere, standing at the gates of Life and Death.
Nothing that Mr Richards can say to me can upset me. 'Mr Richards! echoed Mr Waller in astonishment. How was he to know that, during the walk back from church, the world had been transformed, George had become Mr Richards, and all was over? 'I assure you, Ada began that unfortunate young man. Ada turned a frigid shoulder towards him. 'Come, come, said Mr Waller disturbed. 'What's all this?
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