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Updated: May 17, 2025
Carriswood observed something that took her breath away: Tommy Fitzmaurice had the presumption to be attentive to my lady's goddaughter, Miss Van Harlem.
'I am sorry not to oblige you, Gossip, but he need expect no mercy from me unless he will marry my goddaughter, whom you see yonder looking so pretty and charming. Let him think over what I say.
I do remember seeing her sometimes at the late Doctor Minoret's; she certainly is a beauty; but she is dreadfully pious. "You are dreaming, my dear Monsieur Bongrand; I thought every one knew that my father was a lord of a manor, with a rent roll of forty-five thousand francs a year from lands around his chateau at Rouvre, good reasons why I should not love the goddaughter of my late great-uncle.
After many compliments to their uncle on the wonderful proficiency of his goddaughter, the heirs made their bow and retired. "Good-night, my friends," cried the doctor as the iron gate clanged. "Ah! that's where the money goes," said Madame Cremiere to Madame Massin, as they walked on. "God forbid that I should spend money to teach my little Aline to make such a din as that!" cried Madame Massin.
He said that he should not go to Castle Howard, which I looked upon as certain as that the Princes will be there. It would have been in vain to have held out to him the temptation of seeing his goddaughter, and I know that, if I had suggested it, he would have laughed at me, which would have made me angry, who think Gertrude an object worth going at least sixteen miles to see.
Embrace for me these dear children he caressed, who cheered his hours of suffering, whom I so love for his sake and yours. Will you not let me show my appreciation of my little goddaughter by rendering her independent of future accidents, enabling her without imprudence to marry for love?
The pantaloon's little daughter was my mother's goddaughter, and my thoughts were full of her. My mother, who loved me and saw my pain, asked me if I would like the little girl to be asked to supper. My grandmother, however, opposed the idea, and I was obliged to her. The day after this burlesque scene I returned to Padua, where Bettina soon made me forget the little ballet-girl.
In England a noble English lady is as much concerned for her goddaughter through all this important period as she is for her daughter. In France the obligation is also considered sacred. We have known of a lady who made the journey from Montpellier to Paris although she could scarcely afford the expense to attend the confirmation of her goddaughter, although the young girl had a father and mother.
I did not know there was any objection " This stranger to make an objection! It brought something like a tremulous laugh to Mary's lips. "Oh, there is no objection," said the lady, "only we have been a little put out. I see now; you are the young lady who you are the young lady that you are the one that suffered most." "I am Lady Mary's goddaughter," said the girl. "I have lived here all my life."
"I expect to put it into his head that la Peyrade, to whom he is going to give his goddaughter and heiress, is over head and ears in debt; that he makes enormous secret loans; and that in order to get out of his difficulties he means to gnaw the newspaper to the bone; and I shall insinuate that the position of a man so much in debt must be known to the public before long, and become a fatal blow to the candidate whose right hand he is."
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