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Updated: May 20, 2025
Am I the directress? Is there another Lucy Snowe? Tell me: say something." But he would not speak. His pleased silence, his laughing down-look, his attitude, are visible to me now. "How is it? I must know all all," I cried. The packet of papers fell on the floor. He had extended his hand, and I had fastened thereon, oblivious of all else.
I could dwell upon your words all the day long; and you shall be the directress of your own pleasures, and your own time, so sweetly do you choose to employ it: and thus shall I find some of my own bad actions atoned for by your exemplary goodness, and God will bless me for your sake. O, said he, what pleasure you give me in this sweet foretaste of my happiness!
Her medicament did me good. I felt its strengthening effect when I met the directress the next day; its stringent operation on the nerves suffered no trembling, no faltering; it enabled me to face her with firmness, to pass her with ease. She had held out her hand to me that I did not choose to see. She had greeted me with a charming smile it fell on my heart like light on stone.
In another minute I and the directress were walking side by side down the alley bordered with fruit-trees, whose white blossoms were then in full blow as well as their tender green leaves. The sky was blue, the air still, the May afternoon was full of brightness and fragrance.
After struggling with obstacles at the outset, on account of limited means and lack of accommodations, the enterprise was finally established at No. 16 Steinmitz Strasse, by the generosity of two of the gentlemen referred to; and from the time it had a settled home, prosperity followed. "We wish to show that all work is honorable," said the Directress to me, "and our teachers are all ladies."
Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive. It was Madame Vera Verity, directress of the Woman Beautiful page of the Princess Novelette, who had first advised her to try eyebrowleine which gave that haunting expression to the eyes, so becoming in leaders of fashion, and she had never regretted it.
The Parliaments were about to disappear, the Catholic church was becoming separated more and more widely every day from the people of whom it claimed to be the sole instructress and directress. The natural heads of the nation, the priests and the great lords, thought no longer and lived no longer as it.
Follingsbee made it a point of rolling up her eyes and sighing deeply when his name was mentioned, as she attended church on Sunday with conspicuous faithfulness, and subscribed to charitable societies and all manner of good works, as she had got appointed directress on the board of an orphan asylum where Mrs.
As a means of inducing sleep, I am still more strongly opposed to it; for if a child be rationally treated in every other respect, it will never need artificial means to induce it to sleep. Nature will then be the most appropriate directress in this matter.
The unhappy mother informed the directress that she was a Roman Catholic, and had claimed the protection of her own sect; but, said she, tearfully, 'Indeed I had no money to pay for their entrance, and they refused to take my children.
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