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My uncle would take my part." "No, he would not. The truth is, Camilla, you interfered with Bella first." "Mamma, how dare you say so!" "You did, my dear. And these are the consequences." "And you mean to say that she is to be Mrs. Gibson?" "I say nothing about that. But I do not see why they shouldn't be married if their hearts are inclined to each other." "I will die first!"
It was six months since Banneker had bought him: six months and a week since Willis Enderby had been buried. And the pony's rider had in his pocket a letter, of date only four days old, from Willis Enderby to Camilla Van Arsdale. It was dated from the Governor's Mansion, Albany, New York. Banneker had written it himself, the night before.
Ailsa was in the backyard garden, a trowel in her hand, industriously loosening the earth around the prairie roses. "Camilla," she said, looking up from where she was kneeling among the shrubs, "what was it you said this morning about Mr. Berkley being some unpleasant kind of man?" "How funny," laughed Camilla. "You asked me that twice before." "Did I? I forgot," said Mrs.
The driver could not understand why the policeman wanted to prevent him from carrying out his legitimate order, and on that account they had an argument. It was the carriage which was to take Camilla to her aunt's. "No, since poor Camilla lost her life in that dreadful manner, we have not seen anything of him!" "Yes, it is curious, how much may lie hidden in a person.
He might have declared that Dorothy, at least, had not been disappointed, but he thought it better to be silent about Dorothy. "Yes," he said, "Miss Stanbury has a tongue; but I think it speaks as much good as it does evil, and perhaps that is a great deal to say for any lady's tongue." "We never speak evil of anybody," said Camilla; "never. It is a rule with us."
To this she got simply a line of an answer, declaring that this falling back was impossible, and then nothing was heard of him for ten days. He had gone from Tuesday to Saturday week; and the first that Camilla saw of him was his presence in the reading desk when he chaunted the cathedral service as priest-vicar on the Sunday. At this time Arabella was very ill, and was confined to her bed. Mr.
Is there in the world such a sceptic as to disbelieve the madness of Cardenio, the perfidy of Ferdinand, the impertinent curiosity of Anselmo, the weakness of Camilla, the irresolute friendship of Lothario? though perhaps, as to the time and place where those several persons lived, that good historian may be deplorably deficient.
The following morning I was, perhaps, inclined to smile a little at our terror of Ravengar; but, peeping out of the window early, I saw Ravengar himself standing on the pavement in the Rue St. Augustin. I told Camilla I was going out, and that she must not leave that room, nor admit anyone into it, until I returned.
I've hired this room. No doubt existed in his mind that Simon had happened upon the track of the veritable living Ravengar. It could not be a coincidence that a man so strongly resembling Ravengar, a man posing as a doctor, and buying nearly a sovereign's worth of chloroform, should be occupying rooms in the same house as Camilla.
Jacinth, more and more curious, took the letters which Frances gave her, and began to read them eagerly. Rather unfortunately, the first she began was Camilla Harper's, and she went to the end of it in spite of Frances's 'Oh, do read mamma's first, Jass.
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