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I want to impress on your mind that it was only through her saying she was agreeable to your coming here that we agreed to the elder's request and let you come." "She did, eh?" cried Ida May, flouncing in her chair. "Well, I don't thank her." "No. I cal'late you ain't of a thanking disposition," said Cap'n Ira. "But you like enough won't drop your bread butter-side down. That's all."
She had not the slightest jealousy of Harry's first wife, only a sort of contempt, that she had gotten so little where she herself had gotten so much. "Maria's own mother was very particular, wasn't she, dear?" she said. "Very," replied Harry. "Maria takes it from her, without any doubt," Ida said, smoothly.
After dinner Harold came again as he had promised. The Squire was not in the drawing-room when he was shown in. Ida rose to greet him with a sweet and happy smile upon her face, for in the presence of her lover all her doubts and troubles vanished like a mist. "I have a piece of news for you," said he, trying to look as though he was rejoiced to give it.
'Fosbroke a village apothecary, the parish doctor, who would have poisoned me. Yes, I should think so. How dare you send for anyone? How dare you treat me like a child? 'I dare do anything which I believe to be for your good, Ida answered, unflinchingly. He quailed before her, and changed his tone in a moment. 'Well, if it gratifies you to spend your money upon physicians How do you do, Dr.
There was no vulgar profusion in the dinner which Ida had ordered, nor were its courses interminable; and as she gracefully and quietly directed everything, the thought would keep insinuating itself in Van Berg's mind, that the home over which she might eventually preside would be a near suburb of Paradise.
In the kindest and most amiable manner she communicated to me the results of her long experience, and added advice and rules of conduct, which proved afterwards highly useful. I arrived in Hamburgh on the 12th of May; and, as early as the 13th, might have embarked on board a fine fast-sailing brig, which, besides, was christened the "Ida," like myself.
Quest, who began to fear that the whole scheme was spoiled by the Squire's unfortunate magnificence of manner. Edward played his game, having Ida herself as his partner.
I'm not going to do anything for you but lead you to him who said, 'Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden; and, 'Whosoever cometh I will in nowise cast out." "How much you make those words mean, as you speak them," faltered Ida. "You almost lead me to feel that not far away there is some one, good and tender-hearted, who will take me by the hand with reassuring kindness, as you have."
I am not particularly fond of old de la Molle, perhaps because he is not particularly fond of me," he added rather drolly, "but it would be an infernal shame to break up that family and sell the house over them. Why they would be ruined! And then there's Ida Miss de la Molle, I mean what would become of her? And the old place too.
One hateful night when she had been with Charlesworth to a private dance to which Ida had refused to go, dining instead with Dermot, who had no invitation to the affair, the blow fell. After her return to the hotel her treacherous friend had crept into her room, weeping and imploring her sympathy.
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