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Everybody sat down where they pleased at the long table, and the farmer's wife filled our plates to the brim. The younger ones munched with appetite, while the older ones cut each mouthful as though it were something precious. Everybody ate in silence, and the brown bread looked whiter in their black hands.
The sweet child had quite bewitched him; in his younger days he would have given anything and everything to win her favor; now he was satisfied to make his favor pleasing to her; he touched her playfully two or three times on the arm and said gaily: "Well pretty Roxana, has dame Julia done well with the dresses?" "Oh! they have chosen such pretty, such really lovely things!" exclaimed the girl."
Jack's arms showed strength, but the muscles were not knotted like those of Harris. Harris was perhaps twenty-eight years old, Jack almost ten years younger. Jack had the youth, but Harris had the experience of many hard encounters. It appeared that the odds were heavily against Jack. Jack and Harris sized each other carefully. Jack smiled. So did Harris.
And Maggie had left the table to cosset Mrs Nixon, who of late received more help than she gave. Darius sat in dull silence. The younger men were talking about the Bursley Society for the Prosecution of Felons, of which Albert had just been made a member. Whatever it might have been in the past, the Society for the Prosecution of Felons was now a dining-club and little else.
Boys are kept in the public establishments until the age of twelve, those from ten to twelve being separated from the younger ones and passing through the higher education in separate colleges. The girls are educated apart till they complete their tenth year, and are almost invariably married in the course of the next.
"I do!" was the firm response. Stuart slipped his arm around the older man with a movement of instinctive tenderness. "Look here, Doctor, I've lived in your home for fourteen years and I've grown to love you as my own father." "I know, my boy." "You must listen to me now!" the younger man insisted with deep emotion. "I can give no time to your suit.
Then his father had met with misfortune in business and killed himself; and there had been his mother and a younger brother and sister. Also, there was an invention of Duane's; Jurgis could not understand it clearly, but it had to do with telegraphing, and it was a very important thing there were fortunes in it, millions upon millions of dollars.
He added considerably to the house, which was henceforth known by his name. Holland was a younger son of the Earl of Warwick, and after his execution for having taken arms in the cause of Charles I., this title descended, through lack of heirs in the elder branch, to his son, as well as that of Earl of Holland.
They seem not to exercise any coercion over the younger branches of a family, who are allowed unbounded liberty till the girls have sweethearts and the boys are strong enough to go to war. They are kind and hospitable to strangers, and are excessively fond of their children.
'Shall I? said Johnnie, looking up, puzzled, at his younger aunt. 'Yes, that you will, replied Mrs. Nesbit. 'What shall you do then? 'Oh! then I shall buy mamma and my sisters everything they want, and mamma shall go out in the carriage every day. 'She can do that now, said Theodora, who had expected less commonplace visions from her nephew.
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