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Indeed, though there is a silly prejudice against illegitimacy, yet as our immortal bard says, "Wherefore base? When thy dimensions are as well compact, Thy mind as generous and thy shape as true As honest madam's issue!" For my part, my dear Linden, I say, on your behalf, that it is very likely that you are a natural son, for such are always the luckiest and the best.
Dressed in the plain working garb of a farm girl, with arms bare and face flushed by the heat of the kitchen, one would scarcely have recognized in her the beautiful young woman who moved with Boyd City's society leaders, or the brilliant novice who stood hesitating at the entrance to a life of sin in Madam's wine-rooms; and certainly, one would never have classed the bright eyes, plump cheeks, and well-rounded figure, with the frightened, starving, haggard thing that roamed about the streets of Cleveland a few short months before.
"Yes, miss; but this time it was not to Miss Hannah; it was to you, Miss Nora. 'Go up to the hut on the hill, and request Nora Worth to come up to see me this evening. I wish to have a talk with her? Such were the madam's words, Miss Nora." "Oh, Hannah!" breathed Nora, in terror. "What can she want with my sister?" inquired Hannah. "Well, yes, miss. She didn't say any further.
He declared his intention to remain on that night at the parsonage. He would call at Fonthill on the next day on the day after, he proposed to continue his way to Georgia. His eyes were not a pleasant spectacle as he uttered these words, and I observed a singular pallor came to madam's countenance. But I was in no mood to nourish suspicion.
She fixed her gaze upon the eyes looking through the hideous mask of paint and powder partially concealing the madam's face. "Well, are you going to be a good girl now?" said the madam. "I want to sleep," said Susan. "All right, my dear." She saw and snatched the five-dollar bill from the pillow. "It'll go toward paying your board and for the parlor dress.
The old carriage a heavy family coach bought in the days of comparative prosperity was no longer needed after madam's death, and fell to pieces in the cobwebbed seclusion of the coach-house. The best of the two carriage-horses was taken for a gig, which the squire now set up; saying many a time to all who might care to listen to him that it was the first time for generations that the Hamleys of Hamley had not been able to keep their own coach.
There they all swelled into madam's drawing-room, like so many turkey cocks, as much to say, "and who dare say no to us?" and Gregory was thinking of telling them to come down here, only his heart failed him 'cause of the grand way they was dressed. So in they went; but madam looked at them as glum as death.
Maroney and the Madam strolled along together. Mrs. Maroney asked very anxiously about the Madam's health and seemed to be much pained when she learned that she was very poorly. "Mrs. Maroney," said Madam Imbert, "I fear you find me poor company, indeed. Your life must be happy beyond expression.
The faint gleam of suppressed amusement on Madam Chartley's face as she entered, confirmed the girl's fears. It was unthinkable that such a mortifying situation should go unexplained, yet for a moment after Madam's courteous greeting Mary stood tongue-tied. Then she burst out, her face fairly purple: "Oh, I wish you could change places with me for just five minutes!
Tragedy is a mild word, as you will perceive, for the drama. It was going to surpass Aeschylus and preserve the Greek 'unities' with frightful precision! "Half an hour after the ceremony, I led madam to my chariot; followed her into the vehicle, and making a last sign of greeting to the good parson, directed the driver to proceed to Fonthill. Madam's excellent brother did not accompany us.
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