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‘Amelia, my dear,’ said Miss Maria Crumpton, entering the school-room one morning, with her false hair in papers: as she occasionally did, in order to impress the young ladies with a conviction of its reality. ‘Amelia, my dear, here is a most gratifying note I have just received. You needn’t mind reading it aloud.’
There’s nothing for you to do here, you needn’t stay. Is that betrothed of his, Katerina Ivanovna, whom he has kept so carefully hidden from me all this time, going to marry him or not? You went to see her yesterday, I believe?” “Nothing will induce her to abandon him.” “There you see how dearly these fine young ladies love a rake and a scoundrel. He is a low cad!
"Whatever are you saying? It isn’t half-past six o’clock." "I’m not prayin’ about anything," said the old lady. "I don’t pray about things. I do ’em when needful. And when I’m tired I go to bed." "All right, Aunt Mary," with sugary sweetness and lamb-like submissiveness. "I thought we’d dine out together, but if you don’t want to, we needn’t. And if you feel like it when you waken, we can."
‘I should be sorry to injure any one’s feelings,’ returned she, speaking below her breath. ‘Another time, perhaps.’ ‘Speak out, Miss Eliza!’ said I, not deigning to notice the other’s buffooneries: ‘you needn’t fear to say anything in my presence.’ ‘Well,’ answered she, ‘perhaps you know already that Mrs.
This is a life and death game to Jack, and I won’t risk smashing his future by not being able to keep sober in the face of Aunt Mary." "Oh, come on," Clover urged in his wiry voice. "You needn’t look at her; or, if you do look at her, you can look the other way right afterwards, you know." "I’ll sit next to her," Mitchell explained.
Go away, sir!” “I regret to learn that you have no money,” replied Mr Bunker, imperturbably; “but I am sorry that I am not at present in a condition to offer a loan.” He sat down and smiled amicably, but the little gentleman was not to be quieted so easily. Seeing that no violence was apparently intended, his fright changed into respectable indignation. “You needn’t try to be funny with me, sir.
I s’pose they’ve told you all about Josh, so I needn’t make b’lieve any—but come in—the house looks better inside than it does out." "Ho, Luce," continued he, "where the old boy is your mistress? Tell her thar’s heaps of folks here, and mind tell Aunt Judy to get us up a whalin’ dinner." Here he stopped to take breath for a moment, and then proceeded.
I never found Lucinda amusin’, Lord knows, but I like to see Granite do her. An’ we play cards, an’ she dances, an’—" "Aunt Mary," said Jack abruptly, "do you know the people who had Janice want her back again?" "I didn’t quite catch that," said his aunt, "but you needn’t bother to repeat it because I ain’t never goin’ to let her go. Not never."
What, gentlemen, are you going to write that down?” “Yes, we’ll write it down,” lisped Nikolay Parfenovitch. “You ought not to write that down about ‘disgrace.’ I only told you that in the goodness of my heart. I needn’t have told you. I made you a present of it, so to speak, and you pounce upon it at once.
‘The truth!’ he cried, starting, as if an asp had stung him. ‘You don’t mean to say that you are really she?’ ‘I do; but you needn’t shrink away from me, as if I were your greatest enemy: I am come to take care of you, and do what none of them would do.’
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