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You are wrong in supposing I am Louise's guardian I'm just her chum and uncle. It's like cradle-snatching to want to marry a girl of sixteen, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself, for you can't be much more than twenty-one yourself. While Louise is in my care I won't have any entanglements of any sort, so you'll have to wait till you get home and settle the business with her mother."
The thing, viewed thus, became outrageous, offensive not only to his sense of fitness, but of the finer and more delicate moralities. For cradle-snatching is not, it must be conceded, a graceful occupation; nor is a middle-aged man with a wife still in her teens a graceful spectacle.
Lady Kingsmead, when told of the speedy jilting of the desirable Pontefract, and the subsequent acceptance of young Joyselle, had been disagreeable. "It is ridiculous, and everyone will say you are cradle-snatching," she had said. "When you are forty he will be thirty-seven almost a boy still." "Dearest mamma," returned the girl with a very unfilial lift of her upper lip, "forty is youth!"
"Great Guns! They've got Sucks in it, too!" gasped Billy. "That child is too young to educate and Goodloe ought to be restrained from cradle-snatching like " But just here Billy was interrupted and the audience all quieted down as Mr.
"I could almost wish those dear holy women had gathered your little soul into the fold, when they had you in their keeping and made a good Catholic of you, dearest witch," he told her. "It would have been a rather flagrant case of cradle-snatching, I own, but I can't help thinking it would have simplified many difficulties for you." "And raised a good many, too," Damaris gaily answered him.
I don't even know what it's about." "You took the good time whilst you could get it, and now when you can't hope for anything more " She stopped short, and they faced each other with an antagonism that neither gave nor asked for quarter. They had always been enemies, and now that the gloves were off they were almost glad. "So that's my line. Cradle-snatching. Vamping the helpless infant!"
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