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"I think some enamoured boy in her class who was too shy to send his card with his floral offering was the one," Ida said to Harry when Maria had gone out. She laughed a softly sarcastic laugh. Harry looked at her uneasily. "Maria is too young to get such ideas into her head," he said. "My dear," said Ida, "you forget that such ideas do not get into girls' heads; they are born in them."
Wordley, the family lawyer, was in the library. Mr. Heron flushed and scrambled his letters and papers together as he rose. "Won't Mr. Wordley come in and have some breakfast?" suggested Ida. But her father, shaking his head impatiently, said that Mr. Wordley was sure to have had his breakfast, and shuffled out of the room.
"They're to supply us with all we can get off, and we are to have one half of all we succeed in passing." "That is good," said the woman, thoughtfully. "When this girl Ida gets a little tamed down, we'll give her some business to do." "Won't she betray us if she gets caught?" "We'll manage that, or at least I will.
Yah! I haven't got a fine hotel like this, but I've got my love, I have. I hate handsome men and money; I'm all heart, and " Madame Jules turned to her husband. "You will allow me, monsieur, to hear no more of all this," she said, retreating to her bedroom. "If the lady lives with you, I've made a mess of it; but I can't help that," resumed Ida.
So when he asked her, shyly, gently, to marry him she consented frankly too frankly, Haldane almost admitted. And since, in the world as she knew it, men did not ask women to marry them unless they loved them really, she took much for granted, and began, at once, to look for a cheap flat. Ida gave up her teaching when they married and went to their Harlem flat.
I'll call upon the lady this afternoon, and make her acquainted with my sentiments upon the subject. The wicked old harridan. 'Please don't, urged Ida, smiling at his wrath; 'it doesn't give me any consolation to hear you call her horrid names. 'Did you tell her that I had asked you to be my wife?
With the fury of that storm, one of the hardest blizzards the frontier had experienced, the winter spent itself. Under the soft warm breath of a chinook the snow disappeared like magic, melting into the soil, preparing it for the onslaught of the plow. Ida Mary and I came through the winter stronger than we had ever been before, but we welcomed the spring with grateful hearts.
The lord-lieutenant was standing by the duke, in a comer of the saloon, observing, not with dissatisfaction, his daughter, Lady Ida Alice, dancing with Lothair. "Do you know this is the first time I ever had the honor of meeting a cardinal?" he said. "And we never expected that it would happen to either of us in this country when we were at Christchurch together," replied the duke.
He had got hold of a lesson that Lady Ida Sitwell ought to try and learn during the next three months. It is this: Watch your spendings. For it is the people who are more concerned about getting money than about how they spend it who come to grief.
The face of Ida Mayhew interposed itself before everything that he sought to do or see. Whether it were true or not, it appeared to him that in all his wanderings and observations he had never seen features so capable of fulfilling his highest conception of beauty did they but express the higher qualities and emotions of the soul.
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