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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Goodness, my family's been prophesying that thing ever since I can remember," Grace retorted, putting aside her knitting, and drawing nearer to the candy box. "If I had listened to them I'd have worried myself into all sorts of things by this time." "Instead you'd rather eat yourself into them," sighed Mollie primly, handing over the box with an air of resignation.
"I do believe, Jack," put in my uncle Ro, "that the rule which prevails all over the rest of the world is reversed here, and that with us it is thought a family's claim is lessened, and not increased, by time." "To be sure it is!" answered Dunning, without giving me a chance to speak.
That pale woman, Madame Margaillan, as slender as the blade of a knife, had died of tubercular consumption, which was plainly the hereditary disease, the source of the family's degeneracy, for her daughter, Regine, had been coughing ever since her marriage.
The evident and grateful interest with which the night before he had heard the detective's stories of crimes and criminals had changed now to annoyance at the very sight of him. As a raconteur, Mr. Hastings was quite the thing; as protector of the Sloane family's privacy and seclusion, he was a nuisance. Such was the impression Mr. Hastings received.
It won't be long, I hope, afore we works together, off and on, again, Betsey; and may our next meetin' be at a large family's, where they all takes it reg'lar, one from another, turn and turn about, and has it business-like. 'I don't care how soon it is, said Mrs Prig; 'nor how many weeks it lasts.
Some fairly primitive man had emancipated himself from the old-fashioned ancestral habit of just letting the rain wash away the hillside, and with it the family's prospects of green food for the season.
"Well, then," said I, extending my hand, "as a reward for your candour, which I receive as genuine, I will request your forgiveness for any annoyance I may have caused you on your family's account, I ought never to have resented any thing they have done.
She had always esteemed the author of her own existence and her family's prosperity, but she had never hugged him; nor had he shown any evidence of desiring such an operation. "Good gracious, Jean!" she exclaimed. "We are arranging a bike ride," beamed her father.
He had thought the matter all over, and decided, no doubt, that he was doing what was best both for himself and the girl; that his family's high ideas should not be outraged by a Mexican marriage. He had put a piece of flesh-colored court-plaster over his wound, not healed it.
"Why, what's wrong about it?" "There's nothing wrong about it, of course; I didn't mean that. Only it seems so so kind of strange. None of the women folks in our family's ever done anything of that kind." "Then the women folks in our family will have to begin. I can get a dollar a day. The Burnham girls went, and they're as good as we are.
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