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Woolper was a person of independent, not to say haughty, spirit, and she had preferred to join her small fortunes with those of a nephew who was about to begin business as a chandler and general dealer in a very small way, rather than to submit herself to the sway of that lady whom she insisted on calling Miss Georgy.
Georgy walked before me in the narrow path, and I followed closely, watching her fine free movements, the charm of her figure in its plain white morning-dress bound at the waist with a purple ribbon. Her golden-yellow hair lay in curls upon her shoulders: now and then I caught a glimpse of the contour of her face as she half turned to see if I were close behind her.
You'll find 'em at the big city houses, the first of the winter, and then they go down to Floridy or Georgy for February and March; and they get up to Fortress Monroe in April, and work along north about the middle of May to them family hotels in the suburbs around Boston; and they stay there till it's time to go to the shore.
It followed, therefore, that he was very often absent from his commonplace substantial home, and his pretty weak-minded wife. And poor Georgy had ample food for her jealous fears and suspicions; for where might a man not be who was so seldom at home?
The day before I last stood here, ten happy years ago, I wasn't a rich man bless your soul, I hadn't a cent. And yet I had a good deal to do with making Rome mistress of this grandest work of ancient art the world contains." "The worshiped, the illustrious Capitoline Venus and what a sum she is valued at! Ten millions of francs!" "Yes now she is." "And oh, Georgy, how divinely beautiful she is!"
Georgy is mostly better not up to so much snuff, you know," the Georgian suggested, while the Northerner drew a quick breath and thought of Mandy Ann, and wondered where she was and if he should see her again. He felt as if there was not a dry thread in one of his garments when his companion left him, and returning to his friends reported that he hadn't made much out of the chap.
But now that I've found myself a big, tall Uncle Porges, under the hedge, you know, we can take care of you together, can't we, Auntie Anthea?" But Anthea only hurried on without speaking, whereupon Small Porges continued all unheeding: "You 'member the other night, Auntie, when you were crying, you said you wished you had some one very big, and strong to take care of you " "Oh Georgy!"
"'The lovely Miss S. Will surely say "yes," You've only to ask and try; 'That subject we'll quit; Says Georgy the wit, 'I'VE A MUCH BETTER SPEC IN MY EYE!"
"And I am sure you cannot complain, since you are jingling his money in your pocket this very moment. How did it happen that when Miss Georgy was at Mr. Raymond's she did not make the old gentleman take a fancy to her? She turns most people's heads." "It was always a mystery to me," returned Mr. Lenox mournfully. "But Mr. Raymond does not like my wife, nor, I sometimes think, does he like me.
I never saw his equal for pluck and daring and all the qualities of a soldier"; and Dobbin told the old father as many stories as he could remember regarding the gallantry and achievements of his son. "And Georgy is so like him," the Major added. "He's so like him that he makes me tremble sometimes," the grandfather said. On one or two evenings the Major came to dine with Mr.
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