United States or Falkland Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The Baroness sent her carriage home and remained in the Lawrence mansion until the following morning. The condition of Miss Lawrence was indeed serious. She passed from one attack of hysteria to another, and it required the constant attention of her fiance and her mother's friend to keep her from acts of violence.
He was speaking with entire familiarity, and again she expected interference from Harold. Her fiance, however, was fingering the bottle. She saw Bill straighten, ever so little, and beheld the first signs of rising anger in the set of his lips.
They were not included in the bargain, and I could have gone on very well without them to the end of my term as the mistress of this house, but I accepted them from my fiancé to-day in precisely the same spirit in which they were given: as alms to the undeserving. Your grandfather did not want me to marry you. He is merely paying me to keep my hands off. That's the long and the short of it.
As the Jason will not be ready for two months I can grant you six weeks leave.” No sooner was this matter settled than Will took the coach to Fairham. Thence he drove to the village of Porchester, where Marie’s fiancé was confined. Here he put up at a little inn.
And you've brought Bertie as you promised." She gave her other hand to Bertrand with the words, but she did not speak to him she went on talking to her fiancé. "I've had a tremendous day, and thank you a million times for you know what. It's a good thing you booked your dances beforehand, for I haven't any left." "Not one for me?" murmured Bertrand, as he bent over her hand.
He had hardly self-control enough to greet Lady Tilchester with his usual obsequiousness. She talked charmingly to him for a few moments, and then got up to go. Meanwhile Sir Antony had been conversing with me quite as if no fiancé had entered the room. "You know we are cousins," he said. "Very distant ones." "Why on earth did you not let me know when first you came to this place?"
His manners are charming." "I am sorry you are missing him so much," Burton said. "A girl," Edith declared, with her head in the air, "naturally misses the small attentions to which she is accustomed from her fiancé." "If there is anything an unworthy substitute can do," Burton began, "Nice girls do not accept substitutes for their fiancés," Edith interrupted, ruthlessly.
"When all these sad formalities have been gone through, can I dispose of my father's possessions?" "Most assuredly, my dear Louis," replied the notary. "These, then, are my intentions. I have brought you a sum of money amounting to over two hundred thousand francs, which I found hidden in a drawer; with this gold I wish to assure a pension of twelve hundred francs to the godmother of my fiance."
Rich in her own right, of the bluest blood in the state, soon to marry the man who had been her ideal since their childhood days, why should she not be happy? After leaving Horace, Ann went to the side window and tapped upon it. Receiving no response, she lifted the sash and called softly to her fiancé. Hearing her voice, Everett Brimbecomb appeared at the opposite window.
She had wished to return, but her hostess, her fiancé, and her brother were all united in the resolve to keep her where she was. So insistent were they that they prevailed at length. It had been a particularly bad season at Ghantala, and sickness was rife there. Baring even went so far as positively to forbid her to return till this should have abated.
Word Of The Day