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Then Percival heard the turquoised brunette say: "What a pity his wife is such an unsympathetic creature!" "But Mr. Ristine is unmarried, is he not?" he asked, quickly. There was a little laugh from Mrs. Drelmer. "Not yet not that I've heard of." "I beg pardon!" "There have been rumours lots of times that he was going to be unmarried, but they always seem to adjust their little difficulties.
But he was recommended not to expose himself, and so kept his chamber, and occasionally, not having anything to do, his bed. The unmarried sister with whom he lived took care of him; and the child, now old enough to be manageable and even useful in trifling offices, sat in the chamber, or played, about. Things could not go on so forever, of course.
"Then, pretty quick after that, she began to get acquainted in the town. Folks called, an' there was parties an' receptions where she met folks, an' they began to come here to the house, 'specially them students, an' two or three of them young, unmarried professors. An' she began to go out a lot with them skatin' an' sleigh-ridin' an' snowshoein'. "Like it? Of course she liked it! Who wouldn't?
He took all these pains because he liked order and liked to domineer and drive the people away, but chiefly because he wanted to have Father Sergius to himself. He was a widower with an only daughter who was an invalid and unmarried, and whom he had brought fourteen hundred versts to Father Sergius to be healed.
And with tears in her eyes, she carried the infant to the river Aswa, and consigned the basket to its waters. And although she knew it to be improper for an unmarried girl to bear offspring, yet from parental affection, O foremost of kings, she wept piteously.
Liebenheim's door: he was incapable of uttering a word; but his gestures, as he threw the door open and beckoned to the crowd, were quite enough. In the hall, at the further extremity, and as if arrested in the act of making for the back door, lay the bodies of old Mr. Liebenheim and one of his sisters, an aged widow; on the stair lay another sister, younger and unmarried, but upward of sixty.
In his youth he contracted habits of economy, and these he retained to the last. Being unmarried, he did not subject himself to the expense of a complete domestic establishment, but lived in chambers, and entertained his friends at his club or at a coffee-house. His personal expenses for ten years did not average three thousand dollars per annum.
I knew he would. He was bound to succeed. I believed in him even then. He had ideals. Why don't men have ideals now?" "Some of them do," asserted Mrs. Wentworth. "Yes; Norman has. I mean unmarried men. I heard he made a fortune, or was making one or something." "Oh!" "He knew more than any one I ever saw and made you want to know. All I ever read he set me to. And he is awfully good-looking.
"It wasn't him that had been meant. . . . Of course not . . . . Why the dinner had been a tremendous success. . . . Lady Sarah Wellerby had told her so herself. . . . Had asked them over in return. . . . And had suggested that they should give a dance, to which she and her six unmarried daughters would be delighted to come."
Then, when they had made their drink offerings and had drunk each as much as he was minded, the others went home to bed each in his own abode; but Nestor put Telemachus to sleep in the room that was over the gateway along with Pisistratus, who was the only unmarried son now left him. As for himself, he slept in an inner room of the house, with the queen his wife by his side.
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