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Mary would have passed on with no more than a silent recognition she had made up her mind to have no further speech with her guardian's dismissed assistant. But she had to pass through a wicket gate at that point, and Bryce barred the way, with unmistakable purpose. It was plain to the girl that he had laid in wait for her.
That is hard! hard upon you. A mother's authority is one thing; a guardian's, I should think, is something very different. Does he interfere with your dancing? 'No. Hazel herself hardly knew why words suddenly became scarce. 'I thought you were very fond of it. 'O, I am! 'Then why will you not honour me and please yourself to- night? "Why" is safe, while "why" keeps hid.
The fact is, that she knew her guardian's character very much better than her lover did, and remembering his frequent exhortations upon the subject of the vanity and wickedness of such things, she feared the effects of his anger when he learned the truth. In a year or so she would be of age and her own mistress, but at present she was entirely in his power.
Owing to the postponement, Karen to-day was being married in Cornwall without her guardian's presence. Miss Scrotton had touched on that. She had said that she didn't think Mercedes would like it, she had added that she couldn't herself, however inconvenient delay might have been, understand how Karen and Gregory could have done it.
If you will not believe the truth of this, look upon great Tostatus and Thomas Aquainas' works; and tell me whether those men took pains." BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, P. I, s. 2. This was Mr. Casaubon's letter. MY DEAR MISS BROOKE, I have your guardian's permission to address you on a subject than which I have none more at heart.
"You have no right to dictate to me on such matters," said Desmond hotly, facing his brother. "I've no right, haven't I?" shouted Richard. "I've a guardian's right to thrash you if you disobey me, and by George! I'll keep my promise." He lifted the riding whip, without which he seldom went abroad, and struck at Desmond. But the boy's blood was up.
"No, and they are displeased at her silence; but I suppose she thinks it scarce worth while to write when she will soon be here in person. She will, of course, return to England when the estate is sold, and is to make a match with her guardian's son, so they say. My word! he'll be a lucky fellow." This news of Vetch's presence was staggering.
"What horror is there to reveal touching my origin, that you yet dare not shew me?" "I dare not break your guardian's command," replied the elder, firmly. "Neither can I control a natural desire to know what so nearly concerns me," retorted the other. "I beg of you to solve this mystery of my birth. It is my right, my birthright, to know who gave me birth.
I would have put the thirty dollars to better use." "Well, you've paid up like a gentleman, anyway. I hope you'll come back in a year as rich as ever. You wanted a team to-night, James told me." "That was before I got my guardian's letter. I shall walk, instead of taking a carriage-ride." "I will let the account stand, if you wish." "No. I can't afford to run up any bills. Good night, Mr.
When we went down stairs again, Wemmick led me into my guardian's room, and said, "This you've seen already." "Pray," said I, as the two odious casts with the twitchy leer upon them caught my sight again, "whose likenesses are those?" "These?" said Wemmick, getting upon a chair, and blowing the dust off the horrible heads before bringing them down. "These are two celebrated ones.
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