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"That's right, Lance; every one is crying out for you. Vicar, Cherie is keeping a capital place for you." The gate opened to admit them, and therewith Mrs. Schnetterling, trying to push in, made a vehement appeal "Mr. Underwood, sir, surely the prima donna's own mother should not be excluded." "Her mother!" said Gerald.
Schnetterling had carried her contraband traffic a little too far, especially where the boys of the preparatory school were concerned. She began to fear the gauger and the policeman, and she had consented to marry O'Leary at the Avoncester register office, meaning to keep the matter a secret until she could wind up her affairs at Rockquay. Even her daughter was kept in ignorance.
Reginald Mohun meanwhile went his way to the officer of Inland Revenue, who already had his suspicions as to Mrs. Schnetterling, and was glad of positive evidence. He returned with the General to hear from Mr.
This was in an agony of crying, and it appeared that Schnetterling had really been a very decent, amiable person, who had been passionately fond of his little daughter.
Clement saw no licence to sell spirituous liquors under the name of Sarah Schnetterling, tobacconist. The window had the placard 'Ici on parle Francais', and was adorned in a tasteful manner with ornamental pipes, fishing-rods and flies, jars of sweets, sheets of foreign stamps, pictorial advertisements of innocuous beverages.
I went in once to see whether Adrian was up to mischief there, and the Mother Butterfly looked at me as if I had seven heads; but I just got a glimpse of the girl, and, as my uncle says, she would make an ideal Mona, or Miranda." "Lydia Schnetterling," exclaimed Mr. Flight. "She is a very pretty girl with a nice voice. You remember her, Miss Mohun, at our concerts? A lovely fairy."
"And if I'm come on business," said the man confidentially. "You are something in our line." "Scarcely," said Lance, rather amused. "At any rate, I don't make the regulations." He sped away at the summons of his impatient son and Gerald. They met Captain Henderson on the way, and after a hasty greeting, he said "So you have let in the Schnetterling woman?"
Then at Chicago, when Wood's own folly and imprudence had brought on an illness that destroyed his voice, and she knew there would be only starvation, or she should have to toil for the whole of them, Schnetterling, manager of a circus, fell in love with her, and made her good offers to sing in Canada, and Chicago was a place where few questions were asked, so she freed herself.
"Yes; I am sure the idea is dreadful to her." "Could you not put her in the way of getting trained?" asked Gerald of his uncle. "I must hear her first." "I will bring her up to the Choral Society tonight," said Mr. Flight. "What did you call her?" said Geraldine. "Some German or foreign name, Schnetterling, and the school calls her Lydia."
"Mother Butterfly" was pleading that she was the mother of Miss Schnetterling, who was singing, and the porter replying that his orders were strict. "No, not on any consideration," he repeated, as the man was evidently showing him the glance of silver, and a policeman, who was marching about, showed signs of meaning to interfere. At the same moment Gerald's quick steps came up from the inside.
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