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Her first trip was to Aunt Jane's own private garden, where the invalid, who had not seen her niece since the accident, had asked her to come. Patsy wanted Kenneth to wheel her, but the boy, with a touch of his old surly demeanor, promptly refused to meet Jane Merrick face to face. So Beth wheeled the chair and Louise walked by Patsy's side, and soon the three nieces reached their aunt's retreat.
'Tis the drink she'm soaked in it, like a sponge." "I'll come," said Hicks, and half an hour later he approached his aunt's dwelling and entered it. Mrs. Lezzard was now sunk into a condition of chronic crapulence which could only end in one way. Her husband had been ordered again and again to keep all liquor from her, but, truth to tell, he made no very sustained effort to do so.
They didn't seem to feel half so badly about it as my uncle did. If he had had his way, he would have given all the jewels to Miss Stevens. "He said over and over again that he believed it was his aunt's wish that the girl should have them. And I can tell you, there's no man so particular as he is about respecting the wishes of the dead. "Mrs.
On the night of my aunt's death he had seen a tall, grave-faced man hurriedly leave the hotel. As the man passed the desk he removed his hat and mopped his forehead, and the night-clerk noticed that in the middle of his head there was a patch of hair as white as snow.
It went dimly through Susan's mind that she had grown too far away from the good warm earth. It was years since she had had the smell of it and the touch of it, or had lain down in its long grasses. At her aunt's house, in the office, and here, it seemed so far away!
Are they done at all except in your imagination?" "YOU do them!" said Maryllia, passionately "And you have always done them! When I tell you once and for all that I have given up every chance I ever had of being my aunt's heiress that I shall never be a rich woman, and that I would far rather die a beggar than be your wife, will you not understand me? will you not leave me alone?"
When she arrived, she threw herself on a chair, and then flinging her aunt's letter on the table, exclaimed to her friend, 'This is the recompense of eleven years of patient expectation! As Madame de la Tour was the only person in the little circle who could read, she again took up the letter, which she read aloud.
The prince belongs to my family, and I owe him a generous hospitality. I had destined for him the lodge I occupied at my aunt's." "And you, my dear young lady?" "To-day, I shall remove to a house, which I had prepared some time ago, with the determination of quitting Madame de Saint-Dizier, and living alone as I pleased.
Then for an instant his eyes rested coldly on Bernice before they turned to Marjorie. "Be glad to," he said slowly. Bernice did not fully realize the outrageous trap that had been set for her until she met her aunt's amazed glance just before dinner. "Why Bernice!" "I've bobbed it, Aunt Josephine." "Why, child!" "Do you like it?" "Why Bernice!" "I suppose I've shocked you." "No, but what'll Mrs.
He thought of the Iowa girl and of her white quick hands playing over the keys of a typewriter. He felt dirty and uncomfortable. The girl at the factory knew the foreman had fallen in love with her and the thought excited her a little. Since her aunt's death she had gone to live in a rooming house and had nothing to do in the evening.
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