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Odell declared she didn't eat more than a bird. She was glad her girls were not such delicate little things. They went out on the shady back stoop afterward. Janey was sewing the over-seam in a sheet that her mother wanted turned. When she had finished, and picked out the old sewing, she was free. Then she said they would go down to the Bristows' and have a good game of hide and seek.
They always had such fun at the Bristows'. Polly brought out her basket of carpet-rags, a peach basket nearly full. "I just hate to sew carpet-rags!" she declared. "Couldn't I help you?" asked Hanny. "Why, to be sure you could, if you would, and knew how to sew." "Of course I know how to sew," said Hanny, rather affronted. "Oh, I was only in fun! I'll find you a thimble.
"Who spoke of selling?" said Carew, sharply. "Don't flatter your chances so, Master Alleyn. I wouldn't sell the boy for a world full of Jem Bristows. Why, his mouth is a mint where common words are coined into gold! Sell him? I think I see myself in Bedlam for a fool!
"I trust that you do not consider my interference in any way officious, Mannering. I thought it best to settle the claims of perfect strangers against Miss Mannering." "May I ask," Mannering continued, "in whose house my niece was permitted to lose this sum?" "It was at the Bristows'," Clara answered. "And under whose chaperonage were you?" Mannering asked. "Lady Bristow's!
Why, Nick's mere shadow on the stage is worth a ton of Jemmy Bristows. 'Twas casting pearls before swine, Nick, to offer thee to Henslowe and Alleyn; but we've found a better trough than theirs hey, Cicely Goldenheart, haven't we? Thou art to be one of Paul's boys." "Paul who?" Carew lay back in his chair and laughed. "Paul who? Why, Saint Paul, Nick, 'tis Paul's Cathedral boys I mean.
Keating two daughters, which, with the Beauforts, Molly, George, and the rest of the servants, formed the whole audience. I am sure you would have enjoyed the pleasure the Bristows showed on seeing and hearing Mary Bristow perform her part, which she did with perfect propriety.
For, not only was it the strongest, and susceptible of the highest charge of coloring, but it had also the advantage of grouping together all the principal delinquents of the trial, and affording a gradation of hue, from the showy and prominent enormities of the Governor-General and Sir Elijah Impey in the front of the picture, to the subordinate and half-tint iniquity of the Middletons and Bristows in the back-ground.
But Janey persevered, and finally, after turning about a time or two, came to the middle with a sigh of relief. Polly had been working like a steam-engine for ten minutes, and picked out a good many long pieces, so she had a ball as large as Hanny's. Then they put on their sun-bonnets, and ran down to the Bristows', which was in the turn of the road.
"Be sure that she never goes to the Bristows again, and ask her whether she has any other card debts. It may be my fancy, but I don't like the way that man hangs about her, and looks at her. I am sure that she does not like him, and yet she never seems to have the courage to snub him." "I am very much obliged to you," he said. "I will speak to her to-day."
She was accompanied by her aunt, the Duchess of Apsberg, and her English cousin, Lilian Carrowes, who also knew something of the life in America with the Bristows. The King craved an interview. He had not seen her since morning and his request conveyed the desolation occasioned by the long interval of empty time.
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