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So Osborn Kerr, arriving home not very late it was only just after eleven o'clock found his mother-in-law seated alone upon his hearth, needles flying over one of the pale blue jerseys in which little George was to winter. She greeted his stare of astonishment placidly, with her propitiating smile and deceitful words: "I thought you would be cold, Osborn, so I put a match to the fire."

It would, he said, compromise her dignity to help with the unpacking, and Madame Honore should visit her mother-in-law next day to pay her respects. The travellers did not after all arrive in Paris till near the end of May.

Might not his one chosen dove keep heart-whole for him to the last? She recollected that coarsest, cruellest reproach of all that her mother-in-law had been wont to fling at her, that she, the recent widow, the new-made mother of Eberhard's babes, in her grief, her terror, and her weakness had sought to captivate this suitor by her blandishments.

At this juncture it occurred to Eileen that this might have been her mother-in-law, and a smile danced into her eyes. "Himpudent Hirish hussy! Oh, but I'll have the lore of you. Don't forget I'm the wife of a Justice of the Peace." "Very well; you get Justice, I want Peace." And Eileen fled to her room.

'Mother! she cried, with a stifled accent of pain, and yet still trying to smile, 'do you want to send me away? 'No-no! cried Mrs. Leyburn hastily. 'But if a nice man wants you to marry him, Catherine? Your father would have liked him oh! I know your father would have liked him. And his manners to me are so pretty, I shouldn't mind being his mother-in-law.

But communing the while rapidly within herself, she hesitated, until an unexpected turn of thought harshly put it before her that she was being made a fool of that she had a perfect right to look through her books and poetry, and that Hender's sneers were no more than she deserved for allowing a mother-in-law to bully her.

And so welcome to the new resignation which owned that I had failed. My mother-in-law and I slept together under the only shelter that the inn could offer to us a sort of loft at the top of the house. The night that followed our conversation was bitterly cold. We felt the chilly temperature, in spite of the protection of our dressing-gowns and our traveling-wrappers.

He meekly reminded the infuriate woman that she had called him "son-in-law" before he had attempted to call her "mother-in-law," and that he certainly had been guilty of no conduct which should expose him to such treatment.

Molshy, says the friar to my mother-in-law, 'send that bocaun* to bed poor fellow, he's almost off rouse yourself, James! It's aisy to see that he's but young at it yet that's right he's sound asleep just toss him into bed, and in an hour or so he'll be as fresh as a daisy. * A soft, unsophisticated youth. Let parsons prache and pray -Forral, orral, loll.

Jellyby, they were going to have their secretary's portrait painted and presented to his mother-in-law, whose deep devotion to him was well known, they were going to get up everything, I really believe, from five hundred thousand tracts to an annuity and from a marble monument to a silver tea-pot. They took a multitude of titles.