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You're too much too Leave it to others! 'What others? 'Oh, the sort of woman who smells of india-rubber, he said, with smiling impertinence. 'The typical English spinster. You've seen her. Italy's full of her. She never goes anywhere without a mackintosh and a collapsible bath rubber. When you look at her it's borne in upon you that she doesn't only smell of rubber. She is rubber, too.
I enter the service of madame immediately." And then Céline had smiled blandly, bowed, and taken her departure, leaving the spinster to wonder how on earth she should manage her hair-dressing, and to wish that Edward had not insisted upon setting the girl adrift until a substitute had been found. The fact that the girl was retained in the house annoyed Mr. Percy not a little.
She bent closer. It was a rough wooden slab. Closer still. There were words carved on it. She lay flat and managed to make them out painfully. "Here lies Sarah Cannon. Lay to rest, and died alone, April 26, 1893." Fanny had heard the story of Sarah Cannon, a stern spinster who had achieved the climb to the Peak, and who had met with mishap on the down trail. Her guide had left her to go for help.
"An involuntary guest, my brother puts it. Until the sheriff can make other arrangements." "You have no right to do it without notifying my father. He is at Noches with my brother." "Mr. Weaver will do as he thinks best about that." The spinster shut her lips tight and walked from the room. Supper was brought to Phyllis by the Mexican woman. In spite of her indignation she ate and slept well.
Hendricks is to get £3 current silver money and two suits of apparell one for holy days, the other for working days, and also board is to be provided. Elizabeth Morris, a spinster, in consideration of her transportation from England to New York on the barkentine, "Antegun," binds herself in 1696 as a servant to Captain William Kidd for four years for board.
Dear little Vina is consecrated to her 'Stations' for two years more. Eliminate me as, forborne, a spinster.... Yet you told me two or three days ago that you wouldn't be surprised if your friend took his lady back " "That may be true, Beth," he interrupted. "But I spoke hastily. It sounds crude and an infringement now. I really didn't know Bedient " "When you invited your guests Mrs. Wordling?"
Price the identity of the road agent that the judge of probate in the next office thought his colleague had gone mad. Afterward Mr. Price stood for some time in the entry, where no one could see him, scratching his head and repeating his favorite exclamation, "I want to know!" It has been ascertained that he omitted to pay his respects to the spinster on that day.
Of the week that followed, neither my father nor my mother ever told me much, its memories were too sweet to trust to words, perhaps, but the event was, that on the first day of May, 1734, Thomas Stewart, attorney, and Patricia Wyeth, spinster, were made man and wife in Westover church by the Reverend Peter Fontaine, of sainted memory.
This, however, was the second time that the judge had tried this ruse; see ibid., P 2. See above, note 21. Two of them, however, were issued to the same woman, one in 1604 and one in 1610. Hist. MSS. Comm. The term "spinster" was sometimes used of a married woman. Cal. St.
The dinner was announced, and they sat down to table as before; but the elderly spinster refused to make her appearance, and Mrs. Lascelles and Cecilia, who thought she had been frightened enough, did not attempt to force her.
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