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Updated: May 1, 2025
But after the marriage ceremony, this gentle girl looked boldly into her father's eyes and said: "I am going to take Liddy with me into the wilds of Canada." "Well, well, well!" said her father, English-fashion. "If she wants to go, she may." Go?
Since his arrival from Egypt, O had never been able to make up his mind to pay any of his innumerable bills; the creditors, aware of the man's wealth and position, not pressing for a settlement. I finally sent the documents with a pressing note to his representatives who, after some demur, paid up, English-fashion, in full. Then a noteworthy change came over the faces of men.
The room you saw had plush curtains, gilt mirrors and gilt furniture; in fact, the correct 'English-fashion' guest-room of the educated Indian gentleman. But of late years I have seen how greatly we were mistaken, making imitation England to honour our English friends. Some frankly told me how they were disappointed to find in our houses only caricatures of middle-class England or France.
Between events, as now, the place was thronged. Every moment, fresh arrivals shouting for 'drinks. Every moment the swish of a syphon, the popping of corks; ginger-beer and lemonade for Indian officers, seated just outside, and permitted by caste rules to refresh themselves 'English-fashion, provided they drank from the pure source of the bottle.
Now I say good-bye. He held out his hand English-fashion. She took it mechanically. 'Good-bye, my dear. 'Good-bye, and and' she was remembering her English words one by one 'you will come back again? Good-bye, and thee God bless you.
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