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Osmond didn't want her that she was perfectly aware of; but she would have gone all the same, for after all she didn't care two straws about Osmond. It was her husband who wouldn't let her, and the money question was always a trouble. Isabel had been very nice; the Countess, who had liked her sister-in-law from the first, had not been blinded by envy to Isabel's personal merits.
"Your Majesty is all right though," he added in a lower voice, "let this be a warning to you for to-morrow! This gentleman is Mr. Razorbill you know the old story of the Razorbills? Ha! ha!" But the King did not laugh; he extended his hand and said gently, "You are welcome my cousin!" Indeed, my sister-in-law would have probably said that dissipated though he was he was the only gentleman there.
Sarah broke off from asylum conjurations and turned upon her sister-in-law. "Who's quarreling? Can't I open my head without bein' jumped on by the two of you?" Saxon shrugged her shoulders despairingly, and Sarah swung about on her husband.
She left at my house in Paris her sister, two of her brothers, and her friend the Comtesse de Neuilly, who had resided with us since her return from the emigration. My sister-in-law informed the messenger that my wife had left Paris, but, begging a friend to accompany her, she went herself to the individual, whose name will be probably guessed, though I do not mention it.
When in later years she found that Niccolo was inclined to transfer his allegiance to her sister-in-law, Lucrezia Borgia, she was sorely affronted, and after his death entered into a long contention for the possession of the book of poems which he had left behind.
And yet, what more natural than that her well-to-do, kind-hearted sister-in-law should wish to know how she, Enid, was now situated? Cecil Crofton's widow was not what ordinary people would have called a clever woman, but during the whole of her short life she had studied how to please, cajole, and yes deceive, the men and women about her.
One day Derues said to my sister-in-law, I remember the words perfectly, 'I should like to be a druggist, because one would always be able to punish an enemy; and if one has a quarrel with anyone it would be easy to get rid of him by means of a poisoned draught. I neglected these warnings.
The little woman stood on tiptoe to kiss her tall sister-in-law, who left the room, followed by De Burgh. "Haven't I been a reasonable, well-behaved fellow not to have haunted or worried you all these months? Will you let me come and tell you how wise and staid and prudent I have become?" he said. He spoke half in jest, but there was a wonderfully appealing look in his eyes.
Why, can any sane man suppose that she-wolf sister-in-law of mine does not know she is lying, when she brings such horrible charges against the best men and women in Salem?" "No, I give up Mistress Ann, she is possessed by a lying devil," admitted Master Raymond. "It is well she does not hear that speech," said Joseph Putnam. "Why?"
Need we say that she lost no time in making the proposed call on her sister-in-law; unfortunately Katherine was out; so Mrs. Ormonde was reduced to writing a requisition for an interview with her boys and their aunt. This was accordingly planned at Miss Payne's house, and Mrs.
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