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"How dreadful! She seemed quite well when we saw her that day " She could still hear echoing in her ears the old lady's half-mocking but kindly compliments. "Ah! but she was very, very old over ninety! Why, she was supposed to be aged when she became my godmother thirty odd years ago!" He waited a moment, and then added, quietly, "She has left me in her will two hundred thousand francs."
The old Princess Marya Borissovna, Kitty's godmother, who had always been very fond of her, had insisted on seeing her. Kitty, though she did not go into society at all on account of her condition, went with her father to see the venerable old lady, and there met Vronsky.
If you could live in the country away from society, and all its vanity and vexation of spirit, why wouldn't you rather lead a literary life that didn't mean business?" "But how? Are you proposing a public subscription, or a fairy godmother?" asked Maxwell. "No; merely the golden age. I'm just supposing the case," said Louise. "You were born in Arcady, you know," she added, with a wistful smile.
The next thing is to find a name for the child, and that is done by the godmother, who either chooses some family name or calls the child after its patron saint that is to say, the saint on whose day it was born for in Belgium, as in all Catholic countries, each day is dedicated to some saint.
What we most of all wanted a fairy godmother for was about our "homes." There was no kind of play we liked better than playing at houses and new homes. But no matter where we made our "home," it was sure to be disturbed.
This settled, he had boldly charged her with the deed, and she, knowing well that all her little savings had been spent in the purchase, had not had the face to deny it. Through the fairy godmother, too, he had been rendered amply able to buy them back again. Therefore Hans is to be in the race.
But he would be back to-morrow, and in the morning of the next day they were to begin riding together. Again and again she went over in retrospect every moment of the two hours she had spent in that great house in the Faubourg St. Germain. How kind these two ladies had been to her, Paul's gentle sister and his stately little fairy-like godmother!
The Marquis shook his head and said nothing. The proposition had been very distasteful to him. Then there came another proposition. But it will be right in the first place to explain that the great question of godfather and godmother had received much attention. His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor had signified through young Lord Brabazon that he would stand as one of the sponsors.
Now the Prince BADFELLAH was a wicked young man; and when he had received this message he tore his beard and rent his garment and reviled his godmother, and his friend SOOPAH INTENDENT. But presently he arose, and dressed himself in his finest stuffs, and went forth into the bazaars and among the merchants, capering and dancing as he walked, and crying in a loud voice, "O, happy day!
In the meantime, I'll be little fairy godmother, an' if you'll get on your bonnet I'll stake you and the young 'un to strawberry shortcake an' chocolate ice cream." So it happened that a wondering Frau Knapf and a sympathetic Frau Nirlanger were called in for consultation an hour later. Bennie was ensconced in my room, very wide-eyed and wondering, but quite content.
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