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She would be educated for a professional. Of course a Jenny Lind or a Parodi or Malibran was different; but just an ordinary singer! or one could admire an acknowledged woman of genius who had a position, or any social prestige! Ben said nothing to Delia; but she guessed his announcement had not been satisfactory. She had not been to the Underhills for six months or more.
One would not believe the utter passiveness of the people. As yet no news has been received of the steamer 'Delia, which is supposed to be the one sunk in yesterday's storm on Lake Catahoula. She is due here now, but has not arrived. Even the mail here is most uncertain, and this I send by skiff to Natchez to get it to you.
In his hands, I had not only to corroborate Grey and Legard, and to give full details of that last interview, but also to swear to the peculiar value which Jack attached to the talisman ring which he had given Delia; to the language she had held when I saw her after my return from Oxford; to her subsequent letter, and Jack's fatal silence on the occasion.
He grasped in advance the effect with which he should impress it on Francie and Delia but notably on Delia, who would then herself impress it on Francie that it would be time for their French friend to talk when he had brought his mother round. BUT HE NEVER WOULD they might bet their pile on that! He never did, in the strange sequel having, poor young man, no mother to bring.
He says the girls who come to him for situations are all 'specialists," said daddy, gloomily enough. "Special dunces, I guess," Janice rejoined rather tartly, "if Delia was a sample." "But she wasn't," said daddy, with a smile. "At any rate, he tells me he has good cooks, and good chambermaids, and good laundresses; but he has no combinations of those trades." "Oh!"
"Jest or not, the letter was written by him," continued her husband, still retaining his playful smile. "To you?" "Not exactly; but I presume he meant it for me, or it would not have slipped so easily through Mr. Dumont's fingers into mine." "To whom is it directed, Francois?" "You grow inquisitive, Delia. I will tell you all about it in a few days.
It was arranged that the two families were to have Christmas dinner together. Dicky and Mrs. Dore hurried back for a few moments to bring their turkey to the feast. “Granny, will you love me just the same now that you’ve got Dicky and Delia?” Maida said wistfully. “Love you, my lamb?
It is the cruelty of wicked selfishness. Somehow, I forget that I am talking to his nephew. But we all know Ian Belward at least, all women do." "And at least one man does," he answered gravely. The next minute Gaston walked down the room with Delia Gasgoyne on his arm. The girl delicately showed her preference, and he was aware of it. It pleased him pleased his unconscious egoism.
Mrs Cooper promised to come in presently and cook them." Delia observed that the room had quite a holiday air of neatness. There was no dust to be seen anywhere, and a special, high-backed arm-chair, which was not in general use, was now drawn up to one side of the tea-table.
After reading a tender tale of love, the intricacies of the Princess of Cleves, the soft distress of Sophia Western, or the more modern story of the Sorrows of Werter, her gentle breast would heave with sighs, and her eye, suffused with tears, confess a congenial spirit. The father of Delia let the reader drop a tear over this blot in our little narrative had once been a tradesman.
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