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Yes, I shall die young, for I am gay, as you say, gay at this pleasure-party, where there is blood to drink, as that poor Danton used to say. There, there, forget what I am saying; it is the woman of fifty who speaks. Thank God! the girl of fifteen is still within me." The young country-girl shuddered. She alone knew the fiery, impetuous nature of her mistress.
I had shared in none of its trusts; I had only felt its exactions. Like some country-boy, or country-girl, for the first time brought into the great world, I surrendered myself wholly to the first gratified impulse. I made no conditions, no qualifications. I set all my hopes of heart upon a single cast of the die, and did not ask what might be the consequences if the throw was unfortunate.
"Have done with these comparisons," interrupted she, in some hurry, "and let us return to the country-girl, thy Bess. "You once, my friend, wished me to treat this girl of yours as my sister. Do you know what the duties of a sister are?" "They imply no more kindness or affection than you already feel towards my Bess. Are you not her sister?" "I ought to have been so.
"In Mexico he has been " "Your poor aunt Lucy!" " In Mexico he has been, but he is just coming home now he has been wounded, and he is coming home to spend a long furlough." "Coming home. That will make you all very happy. And Hugh is delicate; and how are you, love? you hardly look like a country-girl. Mr. Olmney!" said Mrs.
So sitting, and so abstracted in her own thoughts, she never knew that anybody was near till the little gate opened, and then with a start she saw Mr. Masters coming up the walk. Diana rose and stood in the doorway; all traces of country-girl manners, if she had ever had any, had disappeared before the dignity of a great and engrossing trouble.
"Oh!" said Hepzibah carelessly, for, formal as she was, still, in her life's experience, she had gnashed her teeth against human law, "I suppose he has a law of his own!" VI Maule's Well AFTER an early tea, the little country-girl strayed into the garden.
The one was a poor country-girl in her teens, ruing the fate to which she had committed herself, but with no weapons for her relief but her tears, her terror, and the mitigation of refuge in her father's house. Her case is to be pitied; shame if it is not!
At the same moment Miss Crawford tapped at the closed front door, and Josephine at once opened it to admit her. Mary Crawford had been a charmingly-pretty country-girl that Joe Harris saw at a glance, the moment her eye took in the whole contour; and she did not for a moment wonder that Richard should have been fond of her or that his cousin should have used all honorable means to supplant him.
It is a sufficiently strange thing to find that great quality in an ignorant country-girl of seventeen and a half, but she had it. Joan was for receiving Richemont cordially, and so was La Hire and the two young Lavals and other chiefs, but the Lieutenant-General, d'Alencon, strenuously and stubbornly opposed it.
There was Miss Bentley, with her clumsy finery, put on as it were one dollar above the other. She patronised me, as a little country-girl who knew nothing. Must I not undeceive her? There was Faustina St.
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