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"Oh yes, indeed; I know him by sight very well," she said and stopped, flushing again at a significant laugh from Mrs. Draper. "I mean," she went on with dignity, "that Mr. Fiske has always been so prominent in college football and all, you know and his father being one of our State Senators so long I suppose everybody on the campus knows him by sight." Mrs.
J. B., a retired draper, born in 1828, while a youth of seventeen, sustained a fracture of the leg, rupture of the urethra, and laceration of the perineum, by a fall down a well, landing astride an iron bar. A permanent perineal fistula was established, but the patient was averse to any operative remedial measure.
She had thought it axiomatic that people kept their appointments promptly. "Oh, I'm always on time," she answered simply. Mrs. Draper laughed and pulled her down on the sofa. "You clear-eyed young Diana, you won't allow me even an instant's illusion that you were eager to come to see me!" "Oh yes, I was!" said Sylvia hastily, fearing that she might have said something rude. Mrs.
Monsieur Lheureux, a draper, who happened to be in the coach with her had tried to console her by a number of examples of lost dogs recognizing their masters at the end of long years. One, he said, had been told of who had come back to Paris from Constantinople.
Drew, the draper?" "Yes. He is one of Mr. Wingfold's best pupils. He brought him to my uncle, and he has come often ever since." "I never heard that Mr. Wingfold took pupils. I am afraid I do not quite understand you. "I would have said DISCIPLES," returned Rachel smiling; "but that has grown to feel such a sacred word as if it belonged only to the Master, that I didn't like to use it.
Draper," she said, "that my young gentleman has sown wild oats enough; and when he comes out of prison I should like him to come out clear, and without any liabilities at all. You are not aware of all his." "No gentleman ever does tell all his debts, madam," says Mr. Draper; "no one I ever had to deal with."
And I was secretly anxious to see what way Dicky would reply to my proposition. "Dear," I said with emotion, I fancy just the right note of conjugal tenderness in my voice. "Won't you drop me at the house first before you take Miss Draper home? I'm afraid I am getting a headache. I've had a rather strenuous day with Lillian, you know, and I really am very tired.
"Not in this world," said the draper. "To doubt that it COULD be," said the gatekeeper, "would be to doubt whether the kingdom of heaven is a chimera or a divine idea." The morning after Wingfold's second visit, Lingard, much to his sister's surprise, partly to her pleasure, and somewhat to her consternation, asked for his clothes: he wanted to get up.
He came out into the public floor. "I heard you were in want of a boy, sir," said the baker, who carried himself as in the presence of a superior; and certainly fine clothes and a gold chain and ring did what they could to make the draper superior to the baker. "Hm!" said Mr. Maidstone, looking with contempt at Clare.
"What you do, my son, is sure to be right," she said, and Paul drove to town and was cheated, both by the draper and the dress-maker. The twins grew up blooming, careless, and saucily merry, without the faintest idea what a tragedy was being enacted in their immediate neighborhood.
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