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Hunter. "My sister Chetwynd saw him with his mother at a masquerade, my Lady Belamour flaunting as Venus, and he, when he ought to have been in his bed, dressed in rose-colour and silver, with a bow and arrows, and gauze wings on his shoulders!" "What will that child come to?" "Remember, Sister Delia, he is no kin of ours. He is only a Wayland!" returned Mrs.
And the time came when he could endure it no more; something rose up within him, something tremendous and terrible, and he laid hold of Delia Gordon's soul to wrestle with it, as never before had he wrestled with any human soul except Corydon's. The truth of the matter was that Thyrsis loved the religious people; it was among them that he had been brought up, and their ways were his ways.
The second arithmetic class had just come out to recite, when somebody knocked at the door. Miss Cardrew sent Delia Guest to open it. "It's a—ha, ha! letter—he, he! for you," said Delia, coming up to the desk.
"Poor little motherless darling," murmured Mrs Hunt. "Del, my love, go on with my work a little, while I say a few words to old Mrs Crow." Delia took her mother's place, threaded her needle, raised her eyebrows with an amused air, as she examined the work accomplished, and bent her head industriously over it.
Delia More's thin, high-pitched voice came back to me, expressing all my unvoiced doubt. "Tisn't like," she said. "I never take any stock." Then I looked at my dark house in a kind of consternation lest it had heard me trying to give comfort, for within those walls I had sometimes spoken almost as this woman spoke.
Dear, dear Jack dear Jack to come to me: hold me tighter, tighter for my very heart is bursting!" And behind me a shadow fell on the doorway: and there stood Delia regarding us. "Good lad all yesterday I swore to be strong and wait for years, if need be. Fie on womankind, to be so weak!
It has, for example, just inside the door on the entrance wall, high up, a very beautiful early Christian coloured relief of the Madonna and Child: white on blue, but far earlier than the Delia Robbias. The Madonna is slender as a pole but memorably sweet.
I don't like 'Bridget. Would you mind callin' me Delia, or else Mrs. Burns, heh?" "I think father would prefer to call you by your first name," Janice said, trying not to show her surprise and amusement. "We will call you Delia if that pleases you." "You're a real nice little girl, I can see that," said Delia, with a huge sigh of satisfaction, following Janice, bag and all, into the house.
Theodore brought home one guest or three, with the same indifference; and if Ben's mother could have seen the cheerful manner in which Delia hurried about and arranged the table on short notice, she must have modified her opinion a little. Theodore was quite negligent about money-matters as well.
"Delia and I have been tramping the Louvre," Vickers remarked. "That's the way we are learning history." Isabelle glanced about the forlorn little sitting-room of the third-class hotel. "Why did you come here?" "It does well enough, and it's near the Louvre and places.... It is very reasonable." Then Isabelle remembered what Fosdick had said about Vickers's gift of half his fortune to Mrs. Conry.
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