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But 'twas worth all the damage to show the moderation and good humor with which she bore this disaster. In the evening the noble colonel came home from his mines, who saluted me very civilly, and Mrs. Spotswood's sister, Miss Theky, who had been to meet him en cavalier, was so kind too as to bid me welcome.
But the time went by, and I did." This was the first time old Mrs. Prichard spoke so freely about her former life to Aunt M'riar. It was quite spontaneous on the old lady's part, and she stopped her tale as suddenly as it had begun.
He called his family and his friends together he gave one of the greatest feasts that ever was known in the city of Paris he gayly presided at one end of his table, while Mrs. Gam., splendidly arrayed, gave herself airs at the other extremity. After dinner, using the customary formula, he called upon Diabolus to appear.
She had come to the manse to propose a certain thing to the minister and she meant to lose no time in proposing it. She was going to do him a favour a great favour and the sooner he was made aware of it the better. She had been thinking about it all summer and had come to a decision at last. This was all that mattered, Mrs. Davis thought. When she decided a thing it WAS decided.
Don't interrupt us now," Wilford said, in a voice so much sterner than he was wont to use when addressing the little boy, that Jamie shrank back abashed and frightened; while Mrs. Cameron, still with her back to Katy, asked, what had put that fanciful name into her mind? Where had she heard it?
"Who heard this story or confession?" he asked as they entered the library. "Mrs. Dane and Miss Arran." "Will they come and listen? They can tell whether the two will agree and point out any discrepancy."
She did not doubt my sincerity at the present time but there was, humanly speaking, a long life before us and what of afterwards? Was I sure of myself later on when all was well? I cut her short. Seizing both her hands: "I accept the omen, Mrs. Williams!" I cried. "That's it! When all is well!
"I do think," she continued, "that it is high time Dr. Snell had a colleague; he has outlived his usefulness. I never could say that I thought he was the right kind of man for our congregation; his principals as a man I have nothing to say against; but why don't we have revivals?" When Mrs. Dexter wished to be elegant she stepped out of the vernacular.
There you have the secret of the subjection of women: they can hold their own, and a bit more, when they've no enemy beating inside." "Hearts! ah, well, it's possible. I don't say no; I've not discovered them," Lord Adderwood observed. They are rarely discovered in the haunts he frequented. Her allusion to Mrs.
What a poor little insignificant figure beside the other! No, she had no confidence in herself none at all she never had had. The people she had lived with had indeed generally been fond of her. It was because she made herself useful to them. Old Mrs. Browne had professed affection for her, till she gave notice. She turned with a shiver from the recollection of an odious scene.
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