Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 2, 2025
Carrie finally took her eyes from Agnes's face and allowed them to travel around the room to where our touring suits hung up to dry. "The automobile suits," she suggested respectfully, "and the veils, and the goggles You could masque as a party of tourists. The clothes are quite dry."
Tears moistened her long lashes, but her lips smiled, as if in the blissful land of dreams she had found some solace for her grief. "A 'Sleeping Beauty' worthy the awakening of any prince!" whispered Alfred Vaughan, pausing with admiring eyes. A slight frown swept over Agnes's face, but vanished as she said, with that low-toned laugh that never seemed unmusical before, "We must pardon Mrs.
Rosamond would have utterly despised the rude, simple playthings she had. Yet in one respect they were of more value far than hers: the king bought Rosamond's with his money; Agnes's father made hers with his hands.
Ellen was delighted with the proposition, and warmly expressed her thanks, and Agnes's wishes were speedily carried into effect. A small unoccupied cottage was fitted up as a school-house, to which all the children of the neighborhood, far and near, daily repaired, while at night the young people of both sex filled the good-sized room of Mr.
This condition proved apparently to Lady Agnes's mind no hindrance, and she and her daughters were presently reinstated in the very apartments they had learned so to love. This time in fact it was even better than before they had still fewer expenses. The expenses were Nick's: he had to pay a forfeit to the landlady at Brighton for backing out of his contract.
A woman, whom Lily did not at first perceive to be Mrs. Naylor, rose and courtsied on their entrance. Agnes's new Bible was beside her, and her mother told them that she was not easy if it was out of sight for an instant. At this moment Agnes called out, 'Mother, and Mrs.
"Oh, Miss Wyllys!" she exclaimed, in answer to an inquiry of Miss Agnes's "I am just going to Longbridge! My poor, kind uncle Joseph! but he was always too weak and indulgent to those girls!" "What has happened?" asked Miss Wyllys, anxiously. "Dreadful news, indeed; Mrs. Hilson has disgraced herself! Her husband has left her and applied for a divorce!
'What Marchioness? said Emily, in extreme surprise; for she had imagined, from the calmness of Agnes's manner, that her intellects were restored. The abbess gave her a significant glance, but she repeated the question. 'What Marchioness? exclaimed Agnes, 'I know but of one the Marchioness de Villeroi.
Agnes did not mind it at the time, but when she saw the milk now given to a beggar, as she called the wise woman though, surely, one might ask a draught of water, and accept a draught of milk, without being a beggar in any such sense as Agnes's contemptuous use of the word implied a cloud came upon her forehead, and a double vertical wrinkle settled over her nose.
Agnes's Chapel, hard by the inn, he could have cried with the best Catholic of them all, "Inter pontem et fontem, Domine!" Nay, some such words did pass his lips. For the man before him turned halfway in his saddle. "What?" he asked. But the Huguenot did not explain. The Countess sat up in the darkness of the chamber.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking