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Meredith herself all the time. She let Rosemary have a fair share of him. Many evenings, indeed, Ellen effaced herself almost totally, sitting back in the corner with St. George in her lap, and letting Mr. Meredith and Rosemary talk and sing and read books together. Sometimes they quite forgot her presence.
This was a thing so unusual with Louise, that it occasioned a general perplexity. Host, hostess, maid, waiter, Noah's grandson, all threw off their characters; and all illusion, as well as all reality of festivity, were at an end. It is true that Louise composed herself speedily, besought pardon, and assigned as the cause of her emotion sudden spasm in the chest.
To divert her attention, I began questioning her about herself and her little companions who were they, what were they, and how did they come to be here? "Why, don't you know?" the little one asked, looking at me in amazement. "We're waifs!" "Waifs! What sort of waifs?" "Why, just waifs."
She went into banishment voluntarily, but continued to devise many plots with the Spanish enemies of France, for she had no scruples in availing herself of foreign help against the hated minister. After the Day of Dupes, Richelieu grasped the reins of government more firmly. He asked no advice, and feared no opposition to his rule.
"Will you go with us, Mamma Vi?" asked Lulu. "No, dear; but mamma and grandpa will." "I must go and tell Eva, so she will be ready," exclaimed Lulu, starting up and hurrying from the room. Evelyn had wandered to a distant part of the grounds and seated herself upon a little grassy mound that encircled the roots of a great oak-tree.
Set the man-trained woman's mind at what is called man's business, let it be what you will keeping a shop, practicing medicine or law, editing, running a factory let her do it in what she considers to be a man's way, and with fidelity to her original theory that his way is more desirable than hers; that is, let her succeed in the task of making a man of herself what about her? what kind of a man does she become?
Whenever Gervaise thought of Lalie, she felt she had no right to complain for herself. She wished she had as much patient courage as the little girl who was only eight years old and had to endure more than the rest of the women on their staircase put together. She had seen Lalie living on stale bread for months and growing thinner and weaker.
Whether it was the prospect of going home or the longing to leave a good record behind her, no one could say, not even Kit herself, but she took her midwinter examinations with full speed up and colors flying, as Billie would say. The girls took her coming departure with many objections, but they proceeded to give her various send-offs.
It added pleasantly to his sense of importance to feel that some one, there in the parlour, was waiting his motion. At length they rose. Monona flung herself upon her father. He put her aside firmly, every inch the father. No, no. Father was occupied now. Mrs. Deacon coaxed her away. Monona encircled her mother's waist, lifted her own feet from the floor and hung upon her.
The widow owed her daughter one-third of the fortune left by Monsieur Evangelista, namely, nearly twelve hundred thousand francs, and she knew herself unable to pay it, even by taking the whole of her property to do so. She would therefore be placed at the mercy of a son-in-law.
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