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There was no querulous complaining in the words, but they were not the less touching for that. 'And then? 'Yes, and then YOU know, godmother. We'll both jump up into the coach and six and go to Lizzie. This reminds me, godmother, to ask you a serious question. 'Explain, god-daughter.
Before he left the room, however, Lady Oglethorpe took care to present to him his god-daughter, Mistress Anne Jacobina Woodford, and very low was the girl's obeisance before him, but with far more fright and shyness than before the sweet-faced Queen. "Oh ay!" he said, "I remember honest Will Woodford. He did good service at Southwold. I wish he had left a son like him.
The old maiden chided them for the cream and for permitting the woman to lie in the cow-shed, and was on the point of departing, but noticing the child, was moved to pity, and afterward consented to stand godmother to the child. She baptized the child, and in pity for her god-daughter, furnished her with milk, gave the mother some money, and the babe thrived.
See post, p. 158, note 4. Johnson has here expressed a sentiment similar to that contained in one of Shenstone's stanzas, to which, in his life of that poet, he has given high praise: She was his god-daughter. See post, May 10, 1784. 'Dr. Johnson gave a very droll account of the children of Mr.
Moreover, she began again to teach little Paasch her god-daughter, out of whom, by the help of the all-righteous God, Satan was now altogether departed.
My aunt, as you may guess, is acquainted with my uncle's famous plan for the future, and knows Anna Campbell, the Pasha's god-daughter. You should hear her chaff him anent this god-fathership, on the strength of which she claims that the captain has returned to the bosom of the Church without knowing it. She tells me that Anna is a charming girl.
Lunch, desultory shopping and tea with friends in Cairo had been the order of the afternoon following the dawn which had found her grace at the window trying to come to a decision about her god-daughter.
When Fanny entered the room, Alba could see what a trial her charming god-daughter of the past week had sustained, by the surprising and rapid alteration in that expressive and noble visage. She took her hand at first without speaking to her, as if she was entirely ignorant of the cause of her friend's real indisposition. She then said: "How pleased I am to see you! Are you better?"
Above all, she liked the artist's eyes those grey, steady eyes with their look of reticence so characteristic of the man himself. Reticence was an asset in her ladyship's estimation. It showed good sense and it offered provocative opportunities for a battle of wits such as her soul loved. "Have you seen my god-daughter dance, Mr. Quarrington?" she asked him. "Yes, several times."
But although she spoke gently and tucked an extra shawl about the bent shoulders with a tender hand, she was thinking viciously all the same over her mistresses leniency towards her god-daughter. "I wish the young lady could be safely married to that proper English gentleman. One can see he wants her, but she doesn't seem to know her own mind.
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