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Portia is the King's godchild, too, so it is just as well that she does not see what is for her own advantage." "I do not care for promotion. I only want to save my own soul and hers," said Pauline. "I wish she would come over to the true Church, for I could love her."
On the Saturday evening, Madame Lorilleux brought her presents for her godchild a cup that cost thirty-five sous, and a christening dress, plaited and trimmed with some cheap lace, which she had got for six francs, because it was slightly soiled. On the morrow, Lorilleux, as godfather, gave the mother six pounds of sugar. They certainly did things properly!
At length we reached the "place." It was a circle of velvet grass, bright as the first blades of spring, delicate as fine sea-ferns. The sunlight, falling down the shaft between the hemlocks, flooded it with a softened light and made the forest round about look like deep purple velvet. My little godchild stood in the midst and raised her wand impressively.
It was pretty Ermengarde Muffel yonder by the fireplace who, after the dance at the Town Hall, assailed your godchild most spitefully with her sharp tongue. My friend Frau Nutzel heard her." "Ah, that dance!" said the magistrate, sighing faintly. "But the child was certainly distinguished in no common way. The Emperor Rudolph himself looked after her as if an angel had appeared to him.
"If it is not that why do you cry?" she demanded imperiously. "It's just happiness," said Lady Mary. Sarah looked wise, and shook her head. "Oh no," she quoth. "Those aren't happy tears." "You're too old, dear Sarah, to be an enfant terrible still," said Lady Mary; but Sarah was not so easily disarmed. "I will know! Come, I'm your godchild, and you always spoil me.
Without telling the viscount everything, he did say that, in case Madame de Portenduere consented to his marriage with Ursula, the fortune of his godchild would make his naval pay superfluous. "Alas!" said Savinien. "It will take a great deal of time to overcome my mother's opposition.
He had no notion of giving up his godchild, he said, and he had no doubt that Edmund Kendal could manage his own child his own way. 'Because of his great success in that line. 'He is not what he was. He uses his sense and principle now, and when they are fairly brought to bear, I know no one whom I would more entirely trust.
Purvis to refuse the afternoon service, when you offered to take all the trouble off his hands; granny hopes you will take care what you are about with him. Tell Louis we have a famous letter from Mary to show him if he will bring us all news of every one, and especially of his godchild. Contrary to custom, you tell us more about her than her mamma does. 'Your most affectionate Sister, 'CLARA.
You can't have a very happy Christmas without me, I should think. Can you arrange to keep me somehow till after then? We could not 'arrange' either with God in heaven or science upon earth, and she is gone." She was only my little godchild, and I am an old maid, with no business fretting over children, but it seemed as if the medium of light and beauty had been taken from me.
And Boney would make his head-quarters at the Hall, with a French cook in your kitchen, and a German butler in your cellar, and my pretty godchild to wait upon him, for the rogue loves pretty maidens." "That will do. That is quite enough. No wonder you have written poems, Nelson, as you told us the last time you were here.
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