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"It's quite the least" Strether filled it out "that she should take his sister's husband? Certainly quite the least. So she has taken him." "She has taken him." It was all Miss Barrace had meant. Still it remained enough. "It must be funny." "Oh it IS funny." That of course essentially went with it. But it brought them back.
"And walk on Davis Avenue," said Virginia, flushing with pride. "Isn't there a Davis Avenue?" "Yes, and a Lee Avenue, and a Beauregard Avenue," said George, taking his sister's arm. "We shall walk in them all," said Virginia. What a scene of animation it was. The rustling trees and the young grass of early May, and the two hundred and forty tents in lines of military precision.
My mother was greatly disappointed, above all when my brother, in his gentle but authoritative manner, requested her to withdraw her opposition to my sister's marriage with Darpent, explaining that the had consented, as knowing what his father's feeling would have been towards so good a man.
"Where did you come from, and why didn't your Aunt Nancy come with you? "'Tilda, this is Nancy Scovandyke's sister's boy. Caroline and Anny, this is Joel; you've heard tell of him." "I've been introduced, thank you," said Joel, taking a seat near Carrie, who haughtily gathered up the ample folds of her dress, lest it should be polluted.
During this interval, Lavinia sat spell-bound with fear, but Babs was too busy poking twigs in the embers to notice her sister's white face. As Mike drew the two boys over the ice, Lavinia heaved a mighty sigh and started to cry softly. "Him big hole! Mike know river oop and down.
Percivale; was I, Connie?" "I didn't hear her make a single remark, Mr. Percivale," said Connie, taking her sister's side. To my surprise they were talking away with the young man as if they had known him for years, and my wife was seated at the foot of the couch, apparently taking no exception to the suddenness of the intimacy.
He laid the tress back upon the pillow, very gently, and, looking into the quiet eyes of the Sister, he answered: "Never but once." "Decus et Praesidium" The search-lights of that evening's talk had betrayed more to Pauline Beverly than the transitory trouble of her sister's mind.
"You mean, because we shall not be here?" said Mrs. Bradford uneasily, for even she felt there was something a little uncomfortable in her sister's voice and look. But Miss Ethel's glance passed over the neat little lozenge-shaped leaves which lay torn from their place but still clinging to the branches, almost with indifference: then she went straight into the hall, making no reply, and Mrs.
These letters alarmed the father exceedingly, so he wrote a long and very earnest letter to his son as follows: "The object of your journey was to assist your parents, and to contribute to your dear sister's welfare, but, above all, that you might acquire honor and fame in the world, which you in some degree did in your boyhood; and now it rests entirely with you to raise yourself by degrees to one of the highest positions ever attained by any musician.
"And why did you agree to this, knowing that I am your own kinsman and your sister's son?" asked Olaf. "I did not then know that you were of my kin," answered Sigurd. "But having given my word, I cannot go back from it. I have seen this man's horse, and I judge it to be a finer animal than mine. Therefore do I fear that I must lose you.