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She was French, as you say, and a devoted wife, I believe, but probably her mari was not as faithful as he should have been. She is said to haunt the house, but I haven't come across her yet myself. You are to sleep in her bedchamber, he added with a smile, 'so perhaps you may be favoured with the sight of your charmer.
"Oh I haven't prowled around this town all summer, uncle, without seeing things that women ought to be voting about." He stared at her. "Well, Katie, you you don't mean to take it up, do you?" He looked so unhappy that she laughed. "Oh I don't know, uncle, what I mean to 'take up, but I herewith serve notice that I'm going to take something up something besides bridge and army gossip."
Her impulse on making the discovery was to run; but a glance at Mr Armstrong, who sat watching her in a friendly way, reassured her. But when that transparent little artifice failed, she bridled up and marched boldly to the inevitable. "Well, little puss," said Mr Ratman, "haven't you got a kiss for me?" "No," she replied.
Odd, isn't it, that I should find fault with that? But it is a serious objection. You are still a very young man; you have become one of the commission; for a year, you are its head. The point is, what's before you?" She paused to let this take effect. "You've already accomplished all that any man can possible accomplish in the political field. You haven't any future!"
Oh, Carl, will you ever forget the time you and I ran away when we were just babies?" Carl: "I'll never forget " Mrs. Cowles: "I'll never forget that time! My lands! I thought I should die, I was so frightened." Carl: "You've forgiven me now, though, haven't you?" Mrs. Cowles: "My dear boy, of course I have!" Carl crossed the room and kissed her pale-veined, silvery old hand.
"Why, the fact is that I haven't got any, and I was goin' to ask you to let me have some, sir; it might come handy," was the reply. I happened to have a few dollars that I had taken the precaution to slip into my pocket before leaving the ship; these I handed to him, and we then sauntered slowly toward the spot where the boat was to meet us.
I told her I didn't know unless it was answerin' city folks' questions. She didn't like that very well, and I haven't heard from Job that's my brother for a long time. All my other near relations are dead. "So they foreclosed the mortgage, and gave me notice to move out.
'No, nothing more, she said, in a tone removed alike from resentment and from pathos; 'I want you, please, to say that we can t take anything after this. 'But what are you going to do, Emma? 'To leave this house and live as we did before. 'Oh, but you can't do that What does Kate say? 'I haven't told her yet; I'm going to do so to-day. 'But she'll feel it very hard with the children.
"But you haven't told me what is the matter at Scaurnose," said Malcolm impatiently. "Ow, it's jist this at this same's midsimmer day, an' Blew Peter, honest fallow! he's been for the last three month un'er nottice frae the factor to quit. An' sae, ye see, " "To quit!" exclaimed Malcolm. "Sic a thing was never h'ard tell o'!" "Haith! it's h'ard tell o' noo," returned the gatekeeper.
"Never knew a worse year," corroborated Billy May, who thought it indispensable to say something. "Haven't made enough, myself, to pay the cook." However, enough had been said to make Mr Gordon fully comprehend the case. The men were dissatisfied.
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