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But the Professor, to whom this information was communicated, doubted whether here it was not a greater distinction to be the daughter of the owner of this region than to be connected with a President of the United States. A certain air of romance and tradition hangs about the French Broad and the Warm Springs, which the visitor must possess himself of in order to appreciate either.
Elysee had been speaking of the Mother house concerning which Brother Barnabas, an odd little Lorrainer who spoke better German than French, and who regarded Paris with the true provincial awe and veneration, exhibited much curiosity. We had a visitor, a gaunt, self-sufficient old Parisian, who had spent fourteen days in the Mazas prison during the Commune.
How my heart beat! My hair should have stood up on end with terror but it didn't. I felt to see, and it was lying down quite flat. But it was only a visitor after all. I don't know whether I was glad or disappointed. I don't think it would be a pleasant experience to see the ghost. But after I had seen it think what a heroine I would be! "Oh, Peter, what do you think?
There were no other children in the workhouse at the time, and a lady visitor, struck with the forlornness of the little girl waif, beginning life under the shadow of the workhouse, benevolently wrote to Dr. Barnardo, and after some negotiations the child was admitted to the Homes and its photograph taken.
Just then his friend looked in upon him. `Well, Somers, how did you like my wine? he asked. `I can't say that I ever wish to take another drop of it, answered Tom. `Well, I sent you exactly the wines you tasted at my house, answered his visitor. `You, however, drank them separately; I mixed them together, and you complain of the result.
One day one sunny winter day She pressed it to her tender breast; The sunshine of its head there lay As pillowed on its native rest. Thomas Buchanan Reed. Lady Hurstmonceux and Hannah Worth sat opposite each other in silence. The lady with her eyes fixed thoughtfully on the floor Hannah waiting for the visitor to disclose the object of her visit.
Meanwhile the general body of guests had been taking little notice of this visitor by reason of an absorbing discussion in which they were engaged with the band about a tune for the next dance The matter being settled, they were about to stand up, when an interruption came in the shape of another knock at the door.
It was most inopportune, for he was on the point of the great disclosure, but common politeness compelled him to answer it, and as the step which we had heard was that of one of the softer-footed sex, he chose to rise from his chair and admit his visitor. This visitor was our Landlady.
You couldn't have expected to keep your place at home and yet have the freedom of a life like this. If a girl gives up her home duties, she must take the consequences." "I have only been away a fortnight," said Rose, with a trembling lip, "and I shall feel nothing but a visitor when I go back on Saturday. You you only ask me because I went home yesterday and found you gone.
There was a menace in her tone as she said, "I shall expect you," that did not escape the ears of Mrs. Dinneford. Edith was in the hall, at some distance from the parlor door. Mrs. Bray had to pass her as she went out. Edith looked at her intently. "Who is that woman?" she asked, confronting her mother, after the visitor was gone.
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