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For what good, your highness?" "For what good, Sir Walter? In a month's time you may ask this question of the notary, Jacques Ferrand." About ten o'clock in the evening of the day on which Fleur-de-Marie had been carried off by Screech-owl and the Schoolmaster, a man on horseback arrived at the farm, coming, as he said, on the part of Rudolph, to reassure Mrs.
In the evening Lady Bassett gave Mary Wells a month's warning, and Mary accepted it doggedly, and thought herself very cruelly used. After this mistress and maid did not exchange an unnecessary word for many days. This notice to leave was very bitter to Mary Wells, for she was in the very act of making a conquest.
"MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, "Washington, D. C. "Brigadiers scarce; good ones scarce. Asboth goes on the month's leave you gave him ten months since; Granger has temporary command. The undersigned respectfully beg that you will obtain the promotion of Sheridan. He is worth his weight in gold.
The banns were published in a month's time. Some accounted it unseemly haste, after the other banns which had come to naught, and some said 'twas better so, and they blamed not Parson Fair for placing such a flighty and jilting maid safe within the pale of wedlock and they guessed he was thankful enough to find a husband for her, even if 'twas one of the Hautvilles.
She went over, and throwing the door open, showed him that a round disk had been fitted above the old keyhole. He nodded his head, and then, after standing silent a little, as if absorbed in thought, "Forty-two shillings a week? Yes, that will suit me perfectly. And I'll begin now by paying my first month's rent in advance.
Will flushed, and stood blinking his eyes in the lamplight. "I don't want to go to school, grandpa," he said persuasively. "That's a pity, sonny, because you've got to go whether you like it or not. Your Aunt Saidie has gone and packed your things, and I'll give you a month's pocket money to start with." "But I'd rather stay at home and study with Mr. Morrison.
Lord knows who the other chap was and what he was asking questions for, but this one was a 'tec, straight. Joe Forman, he was in to-day looking after my place, for I'd given a month's notice, and he says to me, 'You see that big chap? meaning him as had been asking me the questions and I says 'Yes! and he says, 'That's a 'tee.
His month's allowance was carried to him on the thirtieth of each month. This arrangement afforded Sidonie and Georges additional facilities, and opportunity for all sorts of underhand dealing. She thereupon turned her attention to the completion of her programme of a life of luxury. She lacked a country house.
August 31 was devoted to manifold duties, including the hurried packing of light baggage, for now the members of the three upper classes were to enjoy a month's leave of absence before the beginning of the academic year on October 1. Then, like a whirlwind mob, and clad in their "cit." clothes, the upper class men got away on that hurried, frenzied leave.
Even the move to another home was accomplished without her realizing it she was taken to the hospital for a month's treatment, and when the month was ended she was tenderly carried home and laid on her own bed; and she did not know that "home" now was a cheap little flat in Harlem instead of the luxurious house on the avenue where her children were born.
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