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No wonder that Erös Béla was proud of these housewifely qualities in his only sister, and that he loved to make a display of them before his fiancée whose own mother was so sadly lacking in them.
Welsh was to leave Haddington, where the alliance was palpably unpopular, Carlyle proposed to begin married life in his mother-in-law's vacant house, saying in effect to his fiancee that as for intrusive visitors he had "nerve enough" to kick her old friends out of doors. At this point, however, her complaisance had reached its limit.
There did not obtrude into his mental retrospect as an accusation against this unwarrantable tenderness the vision of the Resident's daughter almost his fiancée.
The yellow lettuces are promising splendidly this year never was such a crop; so are the French beans; but my little dachshund, Feldmann, gave the big gander a terrible bite in the leg yesterday. However, we can't have everything perfect in this world. A hundred kisses in imagination, my dearest Amandus, from "Your most faithful fiancée, "ANNA VON ZABELTHAU.
Each evening I vowed that it should; but each morning I returned, as the Scriptures say, to my vomit again. Edmee suffered more and more every day from this development of my character. She cast about for means to cure it. If there was never fiancee stronger-minded and more reserved than she, never was there mother more tender.
He was beginning to recognise the hopelessness of any effort to turn or influence the man. "Yes" with a snarl. "Tell Nan" derisively "that I shall expect my truly devoted fiancée here this afternoon." It was late in the afternoon when the Mallow car once more purred up to the door of Trenby Hall and Nan descended from it.
A week after arriving at Abrantes, seeing that there was no probability whatever of fighting for a time, Terence had suggested to Herrara that it would be a good opportunity for him to run down to Lisbon for a few days to see his fiancee and his friends in the town.
Presently, however, he made the Sign of the Cross upon himself, and, leaning against the wall, and opposite to Tarboe, he began the story he had told Carnac. His description of his dead fiancee had flashes of poetry and excruciating touches of life: "She had no mother, and there was lots of things she didn't know because of that ah, plenty!
"My dear fellow," he said, soothingly, "you can't expect your fiancee, if that's what you mean, to be so uncommonly direct in speech as you are! You have a way of very much going to the point in everything, but you won't find it in other people, even throwing women out of the question." "What is the use of wrapping things up in mystery? But women delight in it!
With their going Major Carew regained his vivacity, chaffed the girls on their silence, recounted the latest funny stories, and to Claire's relief addressed himself primarily to his fiancee, thus putting her in the place of honour. Nevertheless Claire was conscious that from time to time keen glances were cast in her own direction.
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