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"But the point is," insisted Miss Bunce, "that a lady never forgets herself." "And you would argue that the being liable to forget myself is only another development of that very character by virtue of which I follow Art. Ah, well" she nodded towards her stepsisters "I ask you why they and I should be daughters of one father?" She rose and stepped to the piano in the corner.
We then stopped at the farm of the Jones's, who were at the springs when we were there in the autumn of 1862, and Mrs. J knew me at once, and asked affectionately after you. Saw Patty and Emma all the daughters married except Patty and the youngest. Mr. J is very infirm eighty-three years old. That evening a number of persons came to see us, Mrs.
Almost incredible as it may appear, fathers and mothers become procurers for their own daughters, brothers for sisters, and, in some instances, husbands for their wives.
There, said he, ye will find Alvar Fanez and my wife and daughters; bring them to me with great honour: I will remain here in Valencia which has cost me so much; great folly would it be if I were to leave it: I will remain in it, for I hold it for my heritage. And they did as he commanded them.
The merchant received them with great cordiality, and embraced Francis with the affection of a father. "Do you go at once into the salon, Francisco. You will find my daughters expecting you there, for the news came an hour ago that the Bonito was entering port.
As it was the duty of the maiden daughters of that ancient tribe to keep alight the fire upon the domestic hearth, so through all the history of Rome it was the duty of certain chosen virgins to keep perpetually burning the hearth-fire of the city. The roof of the temple is open in the middle, and you may perhaps see the smoke issuing from it. But if you are a male, you may not enter.
"It is somebody whom you know, So and so, he saw me here, and we are going to open a hair-dresser's shop." "The marriage was arranged by good Father St. Barnabe," added the mother. "He has in his keeping my daughter's dower of four hundred Roman crowns." "He's a good lad," said Momolo. "I have a high opinion of him; he would have married one of my daughters if I could have given him such a dowry."
If mothers were in love with their occupations, and their daughters knew it, then to the influence of a good example they could add many lessons of instruction. These might be given in the way of natural, unstudied conversation, and thus be not only heard with attention, but sink deep. If the world is ever to be reformed, says Mr.
Having arranged my monthly report, I presented it to the monthly meeting of our asylum association. I retired weary, and awoke to see Dr. Pearsall about to leave my room. He was giving directions to my two anxious daughters. To my surprise my son-in-law remarked, "Mother is so much better, I will return home."
No longer, probably, would a farmer take a nickname from his men, or suffer them to call his daughters familiarly by their Christian names; and no longer did master and man live on quite the same quality of food, or dress in the same sort of clothes.
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