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Bundlecombe was silent again, and the other did not disturb her, knowing by experience what the effort to speak would be likely to end in. Things had not gone well at Birchmead in the last six months. The news of Alan's arrest on the charge of wife-murder that was the exaggerated shape in which it first reached the village was a terrible blow to poor Aunt Bessy.
You like a spot too, Bessy; we allays hung together i' that." "Yes, Sophy," said Mrs. Tulliver, "I remember our having a blue ground with a white spot both alike, I've got a bit in a bed-quilt now; and if you would but go and see sister Glegg, and persuade her to make it up with Tulliver, I should take it very kind of you. You was allays a good sister to me."
"I find the names Hardy Mackay, Captain Thesel, Dick Swann among these notes. What can these young society men be to my pupils?" "Some of the jealous girls have been tattling to each other and mentioning names." "Bessy! Do you imply these girls who talk have had the the interest or attention of these young gentlemen named?" "Yes." "In what way?"
We'll give him a surprise; let it come all at once on him, and thinks he losin' breath 'I'm a father! Nor a hint even you haven't give him?" Lucy kissed her, to indicate it was quite a secret. "Oh! you are a sweet one," said Bessy Berry, and rocked her more closely and lovingly.
Helen rose and came forward with an expressive little fist and opening it laid a crumpled paper upon Miss Hill's desk. As Helen returned to her seat she met Bessy Bell's fiery glance and it seemed to wither her. The teacher smoothed out the paper and began to read. "Good Heavens!" she breathed, in amaze and pain. Then she turned to Helen. "This verse is in your handwriting."
A fog is bad enough and a gale is bad enough, but when you get the two together I would rather be at home and in bed by a long way than on board the Bessy." "Well, Jack, what do you make out of the weather?" Ben Tripper asked, as he came out from the fo'castle. "It looks rather wild, uncle; but I think the wind is working round to the north of east, just as you thought it would last night."
I thought of Virginia and Lady O'Connor, and then I thought of poor Bessy, and having left her in such an unfriendly way, perhaps to remain in a French prison for years.
Looking back to those early stories, where Mr. James stood at the dividing ways of the novel and the romance, I am sometimes sorry that he declared even superficially for the former. His best efforts seem to me those of romance; his best types have an ideal development, like Isabel and Claire Belgarde and Bessy Alden and poor Daisy and even Newman.
I think I was in such a state of nervous expectation, that if I could have moved easily, I should have got up and run away. But I could almost have pushed Miss Galindo away, as she intercepted me in my view of the mysterious Miss Bessy. Miss Bessy was, as I knew, only about eighteen, but she looked older.
It's your bad luck, and I'm sorry for you, Bessy; for you was allays my favorite sister, and we allays liked the same patterns." "I know Tulliver's hasty, and says odd things," said Mrs. Tulliver, wiping away one small tear from the corner of her eye; "but I'm sure he's never been the man, since he married me, to object to my making the friends o' my side o' the family welcome to the house."
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