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And the Papisher too, who had conjured Lenny out of the stocks nay, who had himself sat in the stocks for the very purpose of bringing them into contempt, the Papisher! he had a lief Miss Jemima had married the devil! Indeed he was persuaded that, in point of fact, it was all one and the same. Therefore Mr.
Miss Jemima now approached Carry, and said in an "aside," "But we are forgetting poor Mr. Riccabocca. Mrs. Hazeldean, though the dearest creature in the world, has such a blunt way of inviting people don't you think if you were to say a word to him, Carry?" "Suppose you write the note yourself? Meanwhile I shall see him, no doubt." "You forgive my impertinence, my kind friend.
He couldn't do it. The commonplace conversation of every-day society is no criterion for character. With Jemima, the maid-of-all-work, and Bob, the baker's assistant, her "young man," it is quite a different thing.
He had no other relative whom he could summon to his help, and Aunt Jemima was upon him before he had had time to think. She was hurt that she had not been called to the death-bed of her sister-in-law.
At any rate, it is certain that Paul Fourdrinier belonged to the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. He died in February, 1758, and was buried at Wandsworth. His son Henry by now the English spelling of the name is adopted was born February, 1730. He married Jemima White, and died in 1799.
How she had become an object of dislike to her former friend she did not know; but she was sensible that Miss Bradshaw disliked her now. She was not aware that this feeling was growing and strengthening almost into repugnance, for she seldom saw Jemima out of school-hours, and then only for a minute or two. But the evil element of a fellow-creature's dislike oppressed the atmosphere of her life.
The Senator still held his own, and, before the question was settled between Jack and Jemima, had told the company that no Englishman knew how to ride, and that the only seat fit for a man on horseback was that suited for the pacing horses of California and Mexico.
"If Mr Farquhar has not liked me as I am," said Jemima, choking, "I don't want to owe him to a pink bonnet." "Nonsense! I don't like to have my sisters' governess stealing a march on my sister. I tell you Farquhar is worth trying for. If you'll wear the pink bonnet I'll give it you, and I'll back you against Mrs Denbigh.
"Oh, but," said his matter-of-fact sister, "you must try to take it as a duty." "I'll do my best," he said; "but I must be up and dressed before she comes, Jemima." Miss Jemima demurred, but ultimately agreed. "I should like Mr. Durnford to be here," he continued, "and Tommy Dudgeon, and Mr. and Mrs. Burton." "They shall all be present," said Miss Jemima.
"Daddy," the soldier's daughter asked, "will you tell him somethin' from me?" "Yes, dear. What?" "Tell him," said the child, with a thoughtful glance at Miss Susan Jemima across the table, "tell him, if he ever marches along this way, I'll come over to his tent and rub his head, like I do yours if he'll let me till he goes to sleep."
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