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"Do please be good and kind to a poor little harmless thing like me," they seemed to say to each fresh comer, "for you are such a nice man;" but Malcolm, who saw plenty of girls in town, took no notice of a little country chit's airs and graces; indeed, he thought Nora Brent far more attractive human kittens not being to his taste.
Hortense thought that she detected in the chit's mother something of her own fear. Walking one day slowly with Hortense down one of the garden paths, Sarah saw Mary Kitson engaged in talking to two dolls, seated on a bench with them, patting their clothes, very happy, her nurse busy over a novelette. Sarah stopped. "I'll sit here," she said, walked across to the bench and sat down.
"To perdition with Señor Dumas! Does he say that a chit's instincts are better than her mother's? Don Abel throws about the money like rocks. He has the best horses at the races. He tells me that he has a house in Yerba Buena " "San Francisco. And I would not live in that bleak and sandy waste. Did you notice how he limped at the ball last night?" "No. What of that?
I only smoke Egyptians, or a pipe. But tell me why am I to refuse Ma Chit's cigarettes?" "The reason is this, and a good one these black scorpions employ what they call 'love charms. Oh yes, laugh, laugh, laugh away! But one of these charms would soon make you laugh the wrong side of your mouth.
This was the fourth and the chief matter that worried Mr. Prohack. He regarded it sardonically as rather a lark; but he was worried to think of the girl making a fool of herself with her mother. Her mother was demonstrably in the right. To yield to the chit's appalling heartlessness would be bad tactics and it would be humiliating. Nevertheless Mr.
Your life is mine it is a lie. Your life and love both are that chit's for whom you have despised rejected ME!" And I grant that at that moment she looked noble enough in her anger as she stood discharging her words at me with hissing directness, like bolts shot twanging from the steel cross-bow.
From that superior status I shall have to come back again to humanity and thence to sink into hell once more!" One who always regards this combination of the primal elements and the senses, with the Chit's reflection in it, to be thus invested with the characteristics of the Soul, has repeatedly to wander among gods and human beings and to sink into hell.
It was not as though servants were willing to be bothered with carrying trays to people's rooms; he knew what Agatha had to say upon that subject. It was not as though he were the chit's first cousin, either. He almost wished himself in the decline of life, and free to treat the girl paternally. And so he fretted all that afternoon.
"You dishonour yourself," she informed him among other things. "And you betray your taste when you make love to a pink-and-white doll, a little fool that has no more wit nor manners than if she were painted on canvas!" Then, with an increase of scorn, she delivered herself of an unpardonable apostrophe: "You, a king, to accept the inheritance of that chit's rustic lovers!"
'Don't say young Wilkins, wotever you do. If young Wilkins's wife is took 'It isn't anybody's wife, exclaimed the little barber. 'Bailey, young Bailey! 'Why, wot do you mean to say that chit's been a-doin' of? retorted Mrs Gamp, sharply. 'Stuff and nonsense, Mrs Sweedlepipes! 'He hasn't been a-doing anything! exclaimed poor Poll, quite desperate.
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