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And now I want something else." "What's that?" asked Lionel. "A cheque." "A cheque? I gave you one this morning, Sibylla." "Oh! but the one you gave me is for housekeeping for Mary Tynn, and all that. I want one for myself. I am not going to have my expenses come out of the housekeeping." Lionel sat down to write one, a good-natured smile on his face.
They mentioned a hundred names unknown to her of those who had lived in ancient times and had written poems in many languages, and of artists whose works they had never seen and could yet describe; and in all these far-off things they seemed as deeply interested as Mrs. Churton was in her religion, her parish work, and her housekeeping.
And if Mrs Grove had anything to do with causing it, the trial was all the greater. For Nelly to use her own words had no patience with that "meddlesome person." Any interference on her part in household matters, was considered by her a reflection on the housekeeping of her young ladies before Mrs Arthur came among them, and was resented accordingly.
But he forgave the irrelevancy by taking no notice of it, and by doing full justice to that particular dish. Nevertheless, he asked several questions based upon these recently discovered qualities. It appeared that in the old days of her wanderings with the circus troupe she had often been forced to undertake this nomadic housekeeping.
"Allan, before you finish that million-dollar conversation to Mr. De Guenther, please call me. I want to speak to him a minute, too." "I'll call you," he promised. They drifted off, Phyllis to attend to her housekeeping, Allan to his long-distance leases, and Philip to find Angela, whom he never forgot for long. She had breakfast with her nurse, and Philip felt it was time he looked her up.
We noticed that she used plenty of hot water and clean rags, and that she rubbed the glass until it sparkled, leaning perilously sideways on the ladder to detect elusive streaks. Our keenest housekeeping eye could find no fault with the way Blanche Devine washed windows. By May, Blanche Devine had left off her diamond eardrops perhaps it was their absence that gave her face a new expression.
She turned up at the boarding-house one Saturday morning when Bobbie was at work; and the first thing she did was to rent a double room from the landlady and buy some cups and saucers to start housekeeping with. When Bobbie came home he just gave her one look and gave up the game.
After these things, Thyrsis would go at his book again. He would go at it doggedly, desperately. He had scarcely taken time to get settled in the tent and to get their housekeeping regime under way, before he had heard the call of the book and wandered away to wrestle with it.
Wealthy says she is really useful to her, and has quite an idea of cooking and housekeeping. I'm puzzled at her myself sometimes. She seems two different children rolled into one." "Well, if that is the case, I see no need to regret her vivid imagination," replied his friend. "A quick fancy helps people along wonderfully. Imagination is like a big sail.
That was your father's business. Why should you trouble about housekeeping? That was your mother's duty. You lived like the birds and the flowers, and had no need to take heed for the future. Everything which life could offer was yours. And now you must turn to what is in store for you, if you are still content to face the future with me. Position I have none to offer.
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