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This was a great disgrace, and she was furiously jealous to think that she had failed where her step-daughter succeeded; and to make matters worse the Emperor sent many beautiful gifts to the little Princess to reward her for playing so well at the Palace.
Will you listen to me? "Useless, useless." He waved the handkerchief negligently at her. "I have had words enough. You are not the daughter of Tewfick Pasha you are his step-daughter your French family desires to capture you I know the rigmarole by heart, you observe.
Still the old woman and her treasure of a daughter were constantly dissatisfied, and always had something to find fault with. The step-daughter was a heavy cross to the second wife, but her own daughter was like the basil plant, which is placed before the images of the saints.
"It is very cold for you to be out, Lucy dear," urged Archie anxiously. "Oh, I can wrap up warmly," she answered. Strange to say, the Professor made no objection to the excursion, although Hope quite expected such a stickler for etiquette to refuse permission to his step-daughter. But Braddock seemed rather pleased than otherwise.
"I think you said, Lady Lundie, that Sir Patrick had been called to Edinburgh by family business?" "Business, Mrs. Delamayn, which is any thing but agreeable to me, as one member of the family. It has altered all my arrangements for the autumn. My step-daughter is to be married next week." "Is it so near as that? May I ask who the gentleman is?" "Mr. Arnold Brinkworth."
"What is that?" "The fear of being wooed because of her wealth." Miss Arthur started, then said: "There may be something in that, Céline; and it is not impossible that I may inherit more." "Ah?" inquiringly. "Yes. Possibly you have learned from the servants that Mr. Arthur lost a young step-daughter not long ago; just before you came, in fact." "I don't remember. Did she die, mademoiselle?" "Yes.
'Oh, sir, you have carried yourself splendidly. She stooped to my companion's hand, and kissed it again and again ere he could disengage it from her grasp. 'Nay, madame, why should you kiss my hand? he cried. 'Because it is the hand which struck him on his vile, lying mouth. Because it may be the hand which will avenge my mother. I am his step-daughter.
"I had a letter from your aunt Maria this morning," she said, with an assumed indifference. "Yes; I noticed the Amity post-mark and Aunt Maria's writing," said Maria. Ida looked at her step-daughter, and for the first time in her life she hesitated. "I have something to say to you, Maria," she said, finally, in a nervous voice, so different from her usual one that Maria looked at her in surprise.
I was therefore amused, but no longer surprised, at the exaggerated way in which the childless Lady of the Bluffs, her step-daughter having ten years back made a foolish foreign marriage, gave me her views upon the drawbacks of the daughters of her world, when she made me, on her return from a European trip, a visit upon the twins' first birthday, bearing, with her usually reckless generosity, a pair of costly gold apostle spoons, as she said, "to cut their teeth on."
She looked regretfully at the dog, then inquiringly at Victoria, when Mrs Devitt came into the drawing-room. Her eyes at once fell on Mavis's comeliness; looking at her step-daughter, she found herself comparing the appearance of the two girls. Before she had offered her hand to Mavis, she had decided that, beside her, Victoria appeared at a disadvantage.
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