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Updated: May 7, 2025
She wanted to confess not only her hatred for the Aunt Bessies but her covert irritation toward those she best loved: her alienation from Kennicott, her disappointment in Guy Pollock, her uneasiness in the presence of Vida. She had enough self-control to confine herself to, "Yes. Men! The dear blundering souls, we do have to get off and laugh at them." "Of course we do.
In some of our English counties there is a similar adherence to a narrow range of proper names, and a mode of distinguishing collateral branches in the same family, you will hear of Jonathan’s Bess, Thomas’s Bess, and Samuel’s Bess—the three Bessies being cousins. The peasant’s adherence to the traditional has much greater inconvenience than that entailed by a paucity of proper names.
To put it baldly, he was beginning to be desperately cloyed with the sweets of a day-long Miss Bessie, ennuye on the one hand and despondent on the other. Why could not the Cousin Bessies see, without being told in so many words, that the heart of a man may have been given in times long past to another woman? to a Cousin Virginia, let us say.
She was again merely his secretary, however, and the office trudged through another normal period when all past drama seemed incredible and all the future drab. But Una was certain now that she could manage business, could wheedle Bessies and face pompous vice-presidents and satisfy querulous Mr. Wilkinses. She looked forward; she picked at architecture as portrayed in Mr.
'What d'you mean? said Dick. 'Mean! You'll see when Mr. Torpenhow comes back. It was not long to wait. Torpenhow met Bessie on the staircase without a sign of feeling. He had news that was more to him than many Bessies, and the Keneu and the Nilghai were trampling behind him, calling for Dick. 'Drinking like a fish, Bessie whispered.
They have avowed themselves quite happy and contented in their place, but they want 'fresh woods and pastures new. When Jack Mytton was reminded by his lawyer that a certain estate he was about to sell had been in his family for 500 years, he replied, 'Then it's high time it should go out of it; and the same reflection occurs to our Janes and Bessies.
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