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How beautifully he spoke about his mother! tears glittered in his eyes then, ah, there must be grace there after all!" "Well, my little heart," said Elsie, interrupting her reveries, "have you had a pleasant day?" "Delightful, grandmamma," said Agnes, blushing deeply with consciousness.
I was thought sickly in my youth, and as Brocklebank Fells is but a bleak place, I was packed off to Carlisle, where Grandmamma lived, and there I have been with her until six weeks back, when she went to live with Uncle Charles down in the South, and I came home to Brocklebank, being thought to have now outgrown my sickliness.
Clara took a turn up and down the room. 'I say, Louis, ought I to go down? 'No; leave him and granny to their happiness, said Louis; and James, at the same moment running up, threw himself into a chair, with an emphatic 'There! 'Dear grandmamma! said Isabel; 'I hope it is not too much for her. James made no answer. 'Are you disappointed in him, dear James? she continued.
But I couldn't start without looking in again to see if maybe you had any news." "No, no nothing," replied Grandmamma. "And I feel as if I couldn't bear much more. I am breaking up, Barbara; a few days more will see the last of me, my old friend, if they bring no tidings." Barbara's eyes filled with tears, but she said nothing.
You will find some one who will know how to love you. 'No, said Genevieve, 'I am not in a position for marriage grandmamma has often told me so! 'Things sometimes happen, pursued Sophy.
They quite forgot to cry any more about their home in listening to what Tim told them. "Oh, Tim," said Pamela, "I'll tell you what would be nice. If us and you could get one of those boats, and a horse to pull it, and go sailing away till we got home to Grandpapa and Grandmamma. That would be nice, wouldn't it, Tim?" "Yes, missie," said Tim. "But is there canals near your place?"
Grandmamma had a peculiar way of employing, now the second person singular, now the second person plural, in order to indicate her opinion of people. When the young Prince Etienne went up to her she addressed him as "YOU," and altogether looked at him with such an expression of contempt that, had I been in his place, I should have been utterly crestfallen.
She readily accepted, but for want of Queen Bee to hurry her, kept her grandmamma waiting longer than she liked, and had more of a scolding than was agreeable. The chickens were all gone to roost by the time they arrived, the cock just peering down at them with his coral-bordered eye, and the ducks waddling stealthily in one by one, the feeding was over, the hen-wife gone, and Mrs.
Little Camille she was eight years old would come and sit on his knee and say to him: "You know, Monsieur le Cure, it is in your church that I mean to be married, and grandmamma will send such heaps of flowers to fill, quite fill the church more than for the month of Mary. It will be like a large garden all white, all white, all white!" The month of Mary! It was then the month of Mary.
I 'll go back and put the salt fish in soak for my boarder's breakfast. I seem to have my hands rather full! a house to keep, an invalid mother, and now a boarder. The very thing I vowed that I never would have another boarder; what grandmamma would have called an 'unstiddy boy boarder!"
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