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In the drawing-room she had it all her own way, and talked enough for all the sisters. 'Have you heard that Cousin Rotherwood is coming? 'Yes, you said so before dinner. 'We hope, said Emily, 'that you and Mr. Weston will dine here on Tuesday. The Carringtons are coming, and a few others. 'Thank you, said Alethea; 'I daresay papa will be very glad to come.
The birds were silent, but the insect world filled with its light voice the space between all other sounds. Outside the gate coaches and horses waited. There was no hurry; the ribbon unrolled but slowly, and the blossomy knots upon the taffeta as leisurely shifted position. Theodosia Alston and Jacqueline came out of church together, in a cluster of Carringtons and Amblers.
The spirit indeed is ready, but the flesh is weak." It was coming near to Isabel's turn; the Carringtons already were beginning to move; and in a moment or two she rose and followed them out.
He and Polly were entirely satisfied with their surroundings, and never ceased to congratulate themselves that they had left Lincoln County. They felt that their friends the Carringtons at Belle Plain, though untitled people, were still of an equal rank with themselves; while as for the judge, they doubted if royalty itself laid it any over him. Mr.
All the guests left the next morning, excepting the Carringtons and Caroline Howard, and the house seemed very quiet even in Elsie's room, where the little girls were sewing while Harry and Herbert took turns in reading aloud; and in this way they passed the remainder of their visit very pleasantly, indeed.
But in his old electioneering contests he used sometimes to make very happy hits. When he came forward, a young, penniless, unknown coxcomb, to contest High Wycombe against the dominating Whiggery of the Greys and the Carringtons, some one in the crowd shouted, "We know all about Colonel Grey; but pray what do you stand on?" "I stand on my head," was the prompt reply, to which Mr.
"How disappointment tracks The steps of hope!" One afternoon, the next week after the Carringtons had left, the younger members of the family, Arthur, Elsie, Walter and Enna, were setting out to take a walk, when Elsie, seeing a gold chain depending from the pocket of Arthur's jacket, exclaimed: "O Arthur! how could you take grandpa's watch?
The Carringtons were not to leave until the afternoon, and the little girls spent nearly the whole morning in the garden, coming into the drawing-room a few moments before the dinner-bell rang. Mrs. Carrington sat on a sofa engaged with some fancy work, while Herbert, who had not felt well enough to join the other children, had stretched himself out beside her, putting his head in her lap. Mr.
I'll say it again sometime if it amuses you; but, meanwhile, as we're going to that week-end at the Carringtons we'd better get into a taxi and hustle for the foot of West Forty-second Street. Is there anything very funny in that?" "I knew that, too. I knew you'd say we must take a taxi!" insisted Brown, astonished at his own "clairvoyance."
"Dear papa, how pleasant!" she exclaimed delightedly; "I do so love to say lessons to you." "Well, then, we will spend an hour together every morning. But are you not to have some company?" "Oh! yes, papa, quite a house full," she said with a slight sigh. "The Percys, and the Howards, and all the Carringtons, and some others too, I believe."
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