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Updated: May 15, 2025
'We are like brother and sister. 'Well, I am rather surprised at it not at your loving each other in a brother-and-sister kind of way but at your finding it so impossible to fall in love with such a beautiful woman. Woman! beautiful woman! I had thought of Phillis as a comely but awkward girl; and I could not banish the pinafore from my mind's eye when I tried to picture her to myself.
"Sorry," Norah said, "I always dance with Jim first." "P'f!" said Cecil, lightly. "That old brother-and-sister idea is exploded." "Not with Jimmy and me," Norah answered. "Why don't you ask Mary? She can dance awfully well." "No, thank you," said Cecil, with elevated nose. "I'll watch." Wally had approached Mrs. Brown, and bowed low. "Ours, I think?"
"So long as this entertaining fiction of brother-and-sister is thought worth while," he said with infuriated condescension, "it might be judicious not to indulge in inconsistent and unseemly demonstrations of affection within view of my officers and crew. Suppose we..." He choked a little. "In short, I came to invite you to a little conference in my rooms, with Mr. Phinuit." "Conference?"
In this way the strangers would be the brothers of their women; and thus the brother-and-sister avoidance the primal law already established would prevent any fear of interference with the established marital rights on the part of the new-comers.
I asked if you'd spoken of my having put you off or if you'd sent me any message. He didn't remember that you had." "In a crush in a Paris foyer? My dear!" "It was absurd of me! But Owen and I have always been on odd kind of brother-and-sister terms. I think he guessed about us when he saw you with me in London.
"There's children-Shakers, and brother-and-sister Shakers, but no father-and-mother Shakers?" "No; they think they can do just as much good in the world without being mothers and fathers." "Do you think so?" "Ye-es, I believe I do." "Well, are you a truly Shaker, or can't you be till you wear a cap?" "I'm not a Shaker yet, Sue." "You're just only a mother?" "Yes, that's about all."
"Certain semi-coaxing methods haven't seemed to succeed, and therefore I'm shooting the well, as our oil friend Whitaker puts it!" "Simply for the sake of keeping our affectionate brother-and-sister relations on the safe and approved plane, I'll say it's none of your blamed business," declared Coventry.
"Why here, of all places on earth?" "Oh, he's interested in some mines and concessions and things. It's very beautiful, but I almost wish I'd stayed at home and married Bobby." "Which is Bobby?" "He's one of the home boys. We've grown up together, and I'm so fond of him. Only it's more the brother-and-sister sort of thing, if he'd let it be." "Check off No. 1. What's No. 2?" "Lots older. Mr.
But that he had never had for her anything more than a brother-and-sister, boy-and-girl sort of affection a kind, careless, yet courteous tenderness was something she had to tell herself time and again, and to hear as well from the letters of a man whose letters she should have forbidden.
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