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Hardinge had us both brought to the bed-side, to listen to the parting advice of our dying parent, and to be impressed with a scene that is always healthful, if rightly improved. "You baptized these two dear children, good Mr.
In the pain of parting with Violet, she shrank from her presence, as if she could not endure to prolong the space for last words. They came at last. Theodora sat ready for her journey, holding her god-daughter in her arms, and looking from her to Violet, without a word; then gazing round the room, which had been the scene of such changes of her whole mind.
"I think it must be the reflection from your roses there, you extravagant fellow," she replied, laughing. "That's famous, Madge. If you will laugh again like that I'll send you a present from Paris. Dear Madge, do get well. Don't let us have anything dismal in our parting. It's only for a little while, you know.
She on the other hand was tormented by a fixed idea already in existence at the time of their first parting, but much strengthened by loneliness and fretting that he was tired of her and not unwilling to be without her. The joy of their meeting banished it for a time, but it soon came back.
Osmond; good-bye." He shook hands with her, without meeting her eyes, and then he turned to Mrs. Touchett, who had wandered back to them. With her his parting was equally brief; and in a moment the two ladies saw him move with long steps across the lawn. "Are you very sure he's to be married?" Isabel asked of her aunt. "I can't be surer than he; but he seems sure.
The women felt sure that Lucien's return would bring the realization of many hopes; but at the moment they could only feel how much they were losing in the parting, and the happiness to come seemed too dearly bought by an absence that broke up their life together, and would fill the coming days with innumerable fears for Lucien.
I shall be gone before the ten days are up, and you and I may not meet again for a long time, so get down and come in: let us take a parting drink together. I have some excellent whiskey, just brought home."
The words were addressed to Ira, but the parting glance was directed to the pretty wife as the two men galloped away. An odd uneasiness at this sudden revelation of his wife's prettiness and its evident effect upon his visitors came over Ira.
After the passing fever about his O had subsided, he was parting with some of his ultra-nationality.
We overheard her saving her little girl from corruption by a frightful French fib that the gentleman in black was Mademoiselle de Ribaumont's English priest. I am sure out parting need have excited no suspicions. We were cold and grave and ceremonious as Queen Anne of Austria herself, and poor Lady Ommaney looked from one to the other of us in perplexity. I went home between wrath and shame.
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