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The girl's senses then perceived the something that was afloat at the table; she thought with a pang of horror: 'Has Juliana told? Juliana smiled on her; but the aspect of Mrs. Shorne, and of Miss Carrington, spoke for their knowledge of that which must henceforth be the perpetual reproof to her headstrong youth. 'At what hour do you leave us? said Lady Jocelyn to Evan.
"Can't you send somebody after him?" "Mary is busy, and Teddy doesn't mind Joe, so there's no use in sending him." "Dear me!" ejaculated her father again. "I'm afraid he's getting very headstrong Teddy, I mean, not poor Joe! I must really get him under better control; but, I I don't like to be harsh with him, Conny, you know, little woman," added the vicar dropping his voice.
Hush, dearest, it is not that I do not think that you have done all for her that tenderness or good sense could devise, but your time is too much occupied, and I cannot see you overtasked by this poor child's headstrong temper. It is decided, Albinia; say no more. 'I have failed, thought Albinia, as he left the room. 'He decides that I have failed in bringing up his children. What have I done?
'Thou drooping sick man, bless the guide That checked, or turned thy headstrong youth. The thought of her brother's kindness, and the effect of his consolation, made Lilias awake that morning in more cheerful spirits; but it was not long before grief and anxiety again took possession of her.
You see Feemy is proud, and perhaps a little too headstrong, and I don't think she'd bear just as quietly as she ought, any one speaking to her about the man now. It isn't only the losing him that vexes her; it isn't only that she has been deceived: but that everyone knows that she has lost him, and has been deceived.
Ashburn muttered something about Trixie being always headstrong and never given to serious things, but even she was a little shaken by the unexpected testimony of her favourite oracle, the 'Horeb. 'Look here, Uncle, said Trixie, returning with the book and laying it down open before him. 'See what the says, and the ; oh, and all of them!
"Your father would have married her had he dared," she informed them. "'Twas to beg his father's consent that he braved his banishment and came to England. But his father was as headstrong as himself; held just such views as he, himself, held later where you were concerned. He would not hear of the match. I was to be had for the asking.
But the tiresome Burton, at any rate, is bound to come to grief, and his headstrong young daughter to run off with his partner in atrocity, a man as old as her father, and his wife to adapt her cold philosophy to a tiny house in the best part of London.
"All right, if that's the way you feel about it, I'll give you something to be mad about." Dot was furious, but, though she struggled and squirmed, she could not get free. "Now you'll be good," said Bobby, giving her a sounding kiss as he let her go, for he was very fond of his headstrong little sister. "Want your face washed, Twaddles?"
I soon found out that she had been utterly spoiled by his excessive indulgence, and that she was the most whimsical, nonsensical, headstrong, little spoiled beauty that ever lived. But, of course, all that, instead of deterring me, only increased the fascination which she exercised, and made me more madly in love than ever. "Her name was not a particularly attractive one; but what are names!
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