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"They must be a gadding set," she thought; and then, as a lady in flaunting robes took a seat beside her, crowding her into a narrow space, the good old dame thought to show that she did not resent it, by an attempt at sociability, asking if she knew "Mrs. Peter Tubbs, whose husband kept a store on the Bowery?"
Mother had a letter from Aunt Josephine today, and Aunt Josephine wants you and me to go to town next Tuesday and stop with her for the Exhibition. There!" "Oh, Diana," whispered Anne, finding it necessary to lean up against a maple tree for support, "do you really mean it? But I'm afraid Marilla won't let me go. She will say that she can't encourage gadding about.
So to supper. No pleasure or discourse with Ashwell, with whom for her neglect and unconcernment to do any thing in this time of dirt and trouble in the house, but gadding abroad as she has been all this afternoon, I know not whither. After supper to prayers and to bed, having been, by a sudden letter coming to me from Mr.
You keep her out of harm's way and gadding, and so she never CAN be found out. * The Cornhill. editor. And yet by little strange accidents and coincidents how we are being found out every day. You remember that old story of the Abbe Kakatoes, who told the company at supper one night how the first confession he ever received was from a murderer, let us say.
"You have been living too rapidly of late and are looking tired." "It is only the journey," she replied. I am sure it is the unaccustomed dissipation. Judith is not a strong woman, and late hours and eternal gadding about do not suit her constitution. She has lost weight and there are faint circles under her eyes. There are lines, too, on her face which only show in hours of physical strain.
"I am much too busy to be gadding about," returned Elizabeth sharply; "though we have connections there, and I once spent several years in the city." "I don't suppose it is at all like London. Eastern cities are so different and dirty," she added. "Boston is very nice, quite a superior place, but we do not consider it much above Salem," Miss Elizabeth said, with an air.
Do you want to vote and be President?" I answered that I did not personally aspire to the presidency, but when the nation decided a woman was most competent for that office, I would be willing she should fill it. "Well," said he, "if the Bible teaches anything, it is that women should be quiet keepers at home and not go gadding round the country;" and much more.
But my head, which was muzzy when you were here, has been muzzier ever since, and my Dr. made me relinquish everything and run out of town, so that I have been gadding for a month, and the August Putnam hasn't a line of mine. You see I have been positively idle; but I hope I am somewhat better. At least I feel so, although I shall not work much for some time to come.
He looked at his wife with darkening face, and his wife, on her part, thought of Peter Ruff in his immaculate evening clothes. "Well," he remarked, grumblingly, "you seem to find a good deal of pleasure in this gadding about!" She threw her soiled fan on the table. "If I do," she answered, "you are not the one to sit there and reproach me with it, are you?"
"I hope that whatever your plans may be, you will give me the opportunity of seeing something of you now and then." "I am afraid," she said, preceding him down the narrow stairs, "that I am going to be too busy to have much time for gadding about. However, I daresay that we shall come across one another before long." "That is provokingly indefinite," he answered, a little ruefully.
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