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Updated: July 10, 2025
He then conducted the royal babe to the font, holding the baptismal robe. Napoleon and Eugenia ascended the throne. The duchess of Baden, representing the god-mother, advanced to the font. The god-father was the pope, represented by the legate. The baptism was then proceeded with.
A strange exultation moved him, and he dreamt of joy and love. To him, his dreams were more than mere bubbles before his eyes lay all the glory of the earth, and a whole Heaven besides. Ah! if the good god-mother could only have endowed him with seven-leagued boots! He could scarcely wait for the long journey to be finished. And it had not yet begun.
Measles I'll tell you who he was directly Measles used to say she was a horse god-mother; and they didn't seem to like one another; but Joe Bantem was as proud of that woman as she was of him; and if any one hinted about her looks, he used to laugh, and say that was only the outside rind, and talk about the juice.
She stretched out her hand, and I knelt down and kissed it, and so I left my fairy god-mother, with both her hands on her crutch-stick, standing in the middle of the dimly-lighted room. I little dreamed then that it was not to her that I owed my Great Expectations, but to my older acquaintance, the convict, for whom I had robbed my sister's larder long ago.
"But oh, God-mother !" "Cleone, he is not what he seems!" "Deceiving me?" "His very name is false!" "What do you mean? Ah no, no I'm sure he would not, and yet oh, God-mother, why?" "Because hush, Cleone he's immensely rich, one of the wealthiest young men in London, and hush! He would be loved for himself alone.
Just as though Miss Georgiana were a fairy god-mother who struck her crutch upon the platform and cried: "Se sesame! change!" the young pirates often came through Miss Georgiana's hands and entered high school with the reputation of being very decent fellows after all. Nor was Miss Georgiana a "softie"; far from it. Ask the boys themselves about it?
Once or twice she addressed his aunt and sister in such a gracious manner that they could not help leaving their places and kissing her tenderly, congratulating Charles upon his good fortune. I was seated not very far from Count Algarotti, and I heard him say several times to Christine's god-mother that he had never felt so delighted in his life.
"There is an Account," she tells him, "as well as I was able to write, which I sent to my Uncle in London, that I here send you." She sends her "tenderest wishes" to her god-mother, Mrs.
"Consolation, mam! For what I say, I demand to know for what?" "Loneliness, Jack!" "Eh, Duchess, what, mam? Haven't I got my dear Clo, and the Bo'sun, eh, mam eh?" "The Bo'sun, yes, he smokes a pipe, but Cleone can't, so she looks at the moon instead, don't you dear?" "The moon, God-mother?" exclaimed Cleone, bringing her gaze earthwards on the instant. "Why I, I the moon, indeed!"
Say, Lizzie, I've got a new dog, and I hitch him to my sleigh, and oh, say, he's the dandiest fun " But Elizabeth was not listening. She was too much overcome by the wonderful news. Mrs. Jarvis, the fairy god-mother, who had always seemed unreal, was really and truly there in the flesh! She could scarcely believe it.
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