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So she died very slowly, did Alison, and always I was at hand with my kisses, my pet names, and my paddlings, killing her, you observe, always urging her graveward. Yes, and yet there is nothing in these letters to show how much she must have loathed me!" he said, in a mild sort of wonder. He appeared senile now, the shrunken and calamitous shell of the man he had been within the moment.
Why don't you love me even a little bit back again? I'd be good ef you loved me; I know I'd be good. What is there in Alison Reed for you nearly to die for her? She aint got my looks, she aint got my eyes, she aint got my bit of money. I'm handsome, and I know it, and I'll have a tidy lot of money when I'm married, for father tells me so. What is Alison compared to me?
Here we heard some Scottish songs, very charmingly sung; and, what amused me very much, a few Highland musicians, dressed in full costume, occasionally marched through the hall, playing on their bagpipes, as was customary in old Scottish entertainments. The historian Sir Archibald Alison, sheriff of Lanarkshire, sat at the head of the table a tall, fine-looking man, of very commanding presence.
It wasn't that I loved him any longer, all had been crushed. But the illusion was gone, and I saw myself as I was. And for the first time in my life I felt defenceless, helpless. I wanted refuge. Did you ever hear of Jennings Howe?" "The architect?" Alison nodded. "Of course you must have he is so well known. He has been a widower for several years.
And how antiquated and stuffy we thought her views, and took pleasure in assuring ourselves that we had got far beyond them, and you spent an evening tea-less in your room because you said you would rather be a Buddhist than a Disruption Worthy do you remember that? "Yes, but Great-aunt Alison had builded better than she knew.
Buchanan's annual message to Congress, in which he publicly announced that the General Government had no constitutional power to "coerce a State." I confess this staggered me, and I feared that the prophecies and assertions of Alison and other European commentators on our form of government were right, and that our Constitution was a mere rope of sand, that would break with the first pressure.
Go your ways, child! go hence and far! the world is too small for your wings! She looked so fierce and grand and terrible that I was frightened I was only a girl of sixteen, and I ran to my father and caught his hand. He spoke quite gently to Alison, but she seemed quite beyond herself and unable to listen.
I hoped that Dora was so inconvenient an appendage that I should be allowed to keep her, but I found that Hippolyta had designs on her saying, truly enough, that she could neither write nor spell and knew not a word of any language. "Poor Lucy Alison, what could be expected of her!"
Why weren't you MY godfather? Would you have given me a napkin ring?" "Probably. I will now, if you like. Then you approve of 'Alison Mary'?" "I love it. Thank you very much. And will you always call me 'Alison' in future?" "I say," I began in alarm, "I'm not giving that name to you. It's for my godchild." "Oh no! 'Alisons' are ALWAYS fair." "You've just made that up," I said suspiciously.
All depends on your being candid." "Oh, yes! I'll be candid enough," said Jim; "I never saw anything wrong with the young women in the shop. Of course, except Alison, I have not had much to do with any of them, but Ally once said to me that a girl called Louisa Clay had, she thought, a spite agen her. I can't imagine why, I'm sure." "This is interesting," said Sampson.
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