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Updated: September 24, 2025
People who are not relations say Miss and Mrs." "Are faver and muvver relations?" asked Josephine timidly. "Y-es no! I don't know," admitted Drina; "are they, Eileen?" "Why, yes that is that is to say " And turning to Selwyn: "What dreadful questions. Are they relations, Captain Selwyn? Of course they are!" "They were not before they were married," he said, laughing.
"We have waited such a very long time for you to do this," added Billy. "If you'll come up to the nursery we'll have a drag-hunt for you," pleaded Drina. "Everybody is out of the house and we can make as much noise as we please! Will you?" "Haven't you any governesses or nurses or something?" asked Selwyn, finding himself already on the stairway, and still being dragged upward.
The Bosniacs are all armed; and as the two populations detest each other cordially, and are separated only by the Drina, the public tranquillity often incurs great danger: but whenever a crisis is at hand I mount my horse and go to Mahmoud Pasha at Zwornik; and the affair is generally quietly settled with a cup of coffee." Author.
"And, by the way, Drina said that you couldn't wait to see Nina," she continued, turning to face a mirror and beginning to withdraw the jewelled pins from her hat, "so you won't for a moment consider it necessary to remain just because I wandered in will you?"
In the first few days they seized two Servian steamers and a number of river boats. Belgrade was bombarded from across the river and many of its public buildings, churches and private residences suffered damage. The hostile armies came into contact for the first time on the River Drina, between Bosnia and Servia, and Vienna was compelled to admit defeat in this preliminary engagement of the war.
It's rather messy and the cat is the guest of honour." "We have three guests of honour," said Drina; "you, Eileen, and Kit-Ki. Uncle Philip, mother has forbidden me to speak of it, so I shall tell her and be punished but wouldn't it be splendid if Aunt Alixe were only here with us?" Selwyn turned sharply, every atom of colour gone; and the child smiled up at him. "Wouldn't it?" she pleaded.
I see many a morning where Drina and I twirl our respective thumbs while you and Boots are off with a gayer set. . . . Oh, don't interrupt!
"Captain Selwyn!" in confused triumph; "you never gave me a chance; I mean, you always were nice in in the same way you are to Drina. . . . I liked it don't please misunderstand only I knew there was something else to me something more nearly your own age.
The pace was too fast for them, however; they were in a different class and they knew it; and after two terrific sets had gone against Gerald and Boots, the latter, signalling Selwyn, dropped out and climbed up beside Drina to watch a furious single between Eileen and Gerald. "Oh, Boots, Boots!" said Drina, "why didn't you stay forward and kill her drives and make her lob?
"You'll surely be punished." "We will let them out after we've made noise enough," said Billy calmly. "We'll probably be punished anyway, so we may as well make a noise." "Yes," added Drina, "we are going to make all the noise we can while we have the opportunity. Billy, is everything ready?"
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