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Ben Allen, who was not at the moment extraordinarily sober, added the word 'Arabella, in what was meant to be a whisper, but which was an especially audible and distinct tone of speech which nobody could avoid hearing, if anybody were so disposed.
Even Aunt Charlotte smiled at the droll error, but Arabella laughed long and loud. "Order, order!" said Aunt Charlotte. "The word is chariot," she said. The others read in turn, until they had finished the charming story, and each of the girls wondered why Arabella was not reproved for rudeness.
"Did you see how the tallow had all run down over the candles?" "Yes, I did. She gave that candle she carried out in the kitchen to him, too. Mother says she wasn't never any kind of a housekeeper." "Hush! Arabella: here he is coming now." But it was not Thomas; it was his father, advancing through the evening with his son's gait and carriage.
She sighed heavily and began. "My name is Arabella Stone. I was married from my home over against Wind River by the Jumping Sandhills. "My father was a lumberman. He was always captain of the gang in the woods, and captain of the river in the summer. My mother was deaf and dumb. It was very lonely at times when my father was away. I loved a boy a good boy, and he was killed breaking horses.
You said it just as if you'd said, 'Here is a great, big sandwich, oh, queen!" "Well, I didn't say that, and you needn't laugh. It makes you feel big to be queen!" "Reginald!" "Well, it does," declared the small boy, "an' Arabella said so yesterday." "Arabella likes to say mean things," said Jeanette, "but it doesn't prove that they're so because she says so."
Really, if life were a round of sensual pleasure, I think our servants might congratulate themselves." Arabella affected to show that they had their troubles; but her statement made it clear that the servants of Brookfield were peculiarly favoured servants, as it was their mistress's pride to make them.
Arabella knew that she could carry off the women, but such a proceeding would leave her father at the mercy of the wine; and, moreover, the probability was that Mrs. Chump would remain by him, and, sole in a company of males, explode her sex with ridicule, Brookfield in the bargain. So Arabella, under a prophetic sense of evil, waited; and this came of it. Mr. Pole patted Mrs.
"He should have spoken to myself," said Lady Arabella, who, though she did not absolutely doubt her husband's word, gave him credit for having induced and led on Sir Omicron to the uttering of this opinion. "Doctor Thorne has behaved to me in so gross, so indecent a manner! And then, as I understand, he is absolutely encouraging that girl " "Now, Bell, you are quite wrong "
His funeral was conducted with the utmost magnificence, though the Earl of Shrewsbury declined to be present at it, and shortly after, the Countess intimated her purpose of returning to Sheffield, bringing with her the little orphan, Lady Arabella Stewart.
"I sha'nt have to invent much," said Wilfrid to himself, bitterly. There was a momentary appearance of Adela at the library-door; and over her shoulder came an outcry from Mrs. Chump. Arabella then spoke: Mr. Pole and Cornelia following with a word, to which Mrs. Chump responded shrilly: "Ye shan't talk to 'm, none of ye, till I've had the bloom of his ear, now!"
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