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"Why does folks have Aunt Matildas?" muttered Reginald. Mollie Merton laughed. She had heard what he said, although he had spoken almost in a whisper. They left the cottage, promising to study their parts very carefully, and as they walked down the avenue they repeated some of the pleasing lines which they remembered. Suddenly Reginald spoke.
The disposition of fathers, brothers and husbands to regard the feminine portion of their families as lovely dead weights, was justified in a degree by the Lauras and Matildas, who clung like wet cotton-wool to the limbs of their natural protectors.
My heart was all in Antomir, in the good old Antomir of synagogues and Talmud scholars and old-fashioned marriages, not of college students, revolutionists, and Matildas When the service was over I stepped up close to the Holy Ark and recited the Prayer for the Dead, in chorus with several other men and boys. As I cast a glance at my "memorial candle" my mother loomed saintly through its flame.
They will need no protector but their own courage, no guide but their own good sense and Yankee wit, and no interpreter, if that woman's best gift, the tongue, has a little French polish on it. Dear Amandas, Matildas, and Lavinias, why delay? Wait on no man, but take your little store and invest it in something far better than Paris finery, Geneva jewellery, or Roman relics.
Suppose the real Matilda should hear their voices; suppose she should come walking down into the scene! With two Matildas simultaneously upon the stage Mrs. De Peyster reached out and clutched the banister of the stairway with drowning hands. The pair talked on to her, answering themselves. They would take the rooms above Mrs.
I've a brother and three Matildas, and here are you talking of crushing my poor sisters as if they were so many beadles all for nothing!" "Is this the truth? Palter not with me! You are pledged to no mortal bride?" "I'm a bachelor. And as for the ring, it belongs to my aunt, who's over fifty." "Then no one stands between us, and you are mine!" "Don't talk so ridiculous!
That she and they exaggerated the degree of her personal feeling for her individual listeners is probable; the oratorical temperament enlarges the image of a sentiment as naturally as a magic lantern magnifies a picture. In later days beloved Maggies and Matildas of the class, who had believed themselves special favorites of Mrs.
Other mothers have done the same, and thought their Clementinas and Matildas the dearest girls in the world, and hated everybody cordially, who did not see them with their own partial eyes, and value them accordingly.
It is the Rosa Matildas at "Young Ladies' Academies" who have secrets in a corner. Thirdly, choose your book friends carefully. You live with people in books, so have a conscience about your choice in this just as much as with living friends. Some books are bad for any one; a great many more would do harm to you, but perhaps not touch an older person.
"I do not think Lady Montfort is aware of all this," said her lord. "Oh yes!" said Nigel. "Lady Montfort is a great woman a woman who could inspire crusades and create churches. She might, and she will, I trust, rank with the Helenas and the Matildas."
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