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"Louis!" came in a sharp, warning cry from Mrs. Montague's lips, as she wheeled around upon him, her blazing eyes having a dangerous gleam in them. "Like a picture that I have seen somewhere," he quietly finished, but with a meaning smile and intonation. "How you do snap a fellow up, Aunt Margie! Here, give me the money, and I will clear out before another blast!" Mrs.
"How've they kept him single?" "He's been in love with my Aunt Alathea for a good many years, but she won't marry him until he keeps his promise to avoid the race-tracks." "What makes your aunt hate hawsses?" "Oh, she loves good horses, but the Colonel always bets, and, as I have said, it keeps him poor. It's the gambling that she hates, and not the horses.
"But what is there so very wrong in my inviting you all to come and take a cup of tea with my Aunt?" said Dubkoff, with a wink at Woloda. "If you don't like us going, it is your affair; yet we are going all the same. Are you coming, Woloda?" "Yes, yes," assented Woloda. "We can go there, and then return to my rooms and continue our piquet."
"What did you expect to find, may I ask?" "Nothing that is, I Well, never mind that. I came on the spur of the moment, immediately after receiving your letter. I have had no time to think, to consult my your aunt " "What has my AUNT" with withering emphasis, "to do with it? Why should you consult her?" "Well, she is your mother's nearest relative, I suppose.
"If I had such a family," said her aunt, "I would have a separate governess and guardian for each, very moral persons. They should come when each child was two, and stay till it was twenty. The children should all live apart, in order not to quarrel, and should meet once or twice a day and bow to each other.
"It’s that same arm again," said Aunt Mary, "just as I thought it was settled for!" Her eyes seemed to fairly crackle with indignation. "Why don’t she put it in a sling an’ have a little patience?" Lucinda took the telegram and read it. "’Pears like she can’t," she commented, in a tone like a buzz saw; "’pears like it’s goin’ to be took off."
It seems to me a pretty good proof of confidence. Is that settled?" "Ah, aunt, you are implacable!" groaned Savinien. "When you have laid your hand upon any one, it is all over. Adieu, independence; one must obey you. Nevertheless, it was a vast and beautiful conception." "Very well. Marechal, see that my nephew has ten thousand francs. And you, Savinien, remember that I see no more of you."
Get up, desist from crying, and listen to me." Poor Joachim, who loved his mother dearly, obeyed. "Joachim! your Aunt, and your Cousins, and your schoolfellows have all called you clever. In what does your cleverness consist? I will tell you. In the Reproduction of Deformity, Defects, Failings, and Misfortunes of every sort, that fall under your observation. A worthy employment truly!
"You are apt to be giddy, Jackanapes," said Miss Jessamine. "Yes aunt," said Jackanapes, thinking of the hobby-horses. "You are a good boy, Jackanapes. Thank GOD, I can tell your grandfather that. An obedient boy, an honorable boy, and a kind-hearted boy. But you are in short, you are a Boy, Jackanapes.
Since a certain army surgeon, by name Haberlein, had departed this life, there was no leech at the Forest lodge, but my aunt and the chaplain, a man of few words but well trained in good works and a right pious servant of the Lord, were disciples of Galen, and the leech from Nuremberg came forth once a week, on each Tuesday; and since the death of Doctor Paul Rieter, of whom I have made mention, it was his successor Master Ulsenius.
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