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Peter dashed in, ran up to Francezka and began to cry: "Oh, my darling little mistress! Oh, what will madame say to you? What will she do to you?" I gave him a look of warning, which checked his lamentations. He squeezed himself into a little place back of the improvised stage, and from there I watched his anxious face during what followed.
"Helen," said the other, "I do wish you would talk seriously with me. You are old enough to be your own mistress now, and to do as you please, but you ought to realize that I have seen the world more than you, and that my advice is worth something." "Tell it to me," said Helen, ceasing to laugh, and leaning back in the carriage and gazing at her aunt.
She remarked this; and having completely recovered her own alarm at the attempt that had been made on her liberty, she thought she was now released from her promise to guard against a past and imaginary peril. So after dinner she slipped out alone, and went to the mistress of the school where she had received her elementary education.
"Faix, I smelt them for the last three days, sir." "And how could you say they were good, then?" asked his mistress. "Sure you tould me, ma'am, that if they didn't open their mouths they were good, and I'll be on my book oath them oysters never opened their mouths since I had them, for I laid them on a coolflag in the kitchen and put the jack-weight over them."
I hadn't thought at first I could like that girl so much, but my heart warmed to her and her mistress, and everything that was hers. Only I couldn't stay. I would have to move on somewhere, like the poor tramps in the Park at home. "I can't do that, though I'm very grateful indeed to Mrs. Hale," I said. "I I have other plans.
"I have only one objection to make to that namely, that if I wanted to play in the same way again he could only prevent me by fighting for it." "His mistress swears she will make you play in the usual way." I smiled, and thanked her for her information. When I got back to the inn I played a game of quinze with the marquis, and lost fifty louis; afterwards I let myself be persuaded to hold a bank.
Hers lives in Casterbridge, and I believe he's a soldier." "Do you know his name?" Bathsheba said. "No, mistress; she was very close about it." "Perhaps I might be able to find out if I went to Casterbridge barracks." said William Smallbury. "Very well; if she doesn't return tomorrow, mind you go there and try to discover which man it is, and see him.
A loud, long shriek that roused the house broke from Lady Trevlyn as she fell senseless at the bedside, and dropping both curtain and candle Hester caught up her mistress and fled from the haunted room, locking the door behind her. In a moment a dozen servants were about them, and into their astonished ears Hester poured her story while vainly trying to restore her lady.
She had taken my arm again, and we continued to walk, although I did not know the direction which we took. All that she had hinted at concerning the lover of the countess, concerning my mistress, together with this journey, the incident which took place in the carriage, our conversation on the grassy bank, the time of night, the moonlight all made me feel anxious.
Forget the model, my son, now that you have taken advantage of it so successfully. I know of a better mistress for you Art to whom belongs everything of beauty that the Most High has created In Art in all its breadth and fulness, not fettered and narrowed by any Agapitus."
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