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Updated: October 24, 2025
While seeming to avoid the Procuratessa Vendramin, Zaffirino took the opportunity, one evening at a large assembly, to sing in her presence. He sang and sang and sang until the poor grand-aunt Pisana fell ill for love.
The little daughter, under the careful up-bringing of an old grand-aunt, developed a remarkable aptitude for rural affairs.
She had broken the journey to visit a maternal grand-aunt and some Virginia cousins, in Richmond, Charteris explained, and was to come thence to Matocton. "And so you have acquired a boy and, by my soul, a very handsome wife, Rudolph?" "It is sufficiently notorious," said Colonel Musgrave. "Yes, we are quite absurdly happy."
I am thinking if aunt knew so little of sin, What a wonder Aunt Tabitha's aunt must have been! And her grand-aunt it scares me how shockingly sad. That we girls of to-day are so frightfully bad! A martyr will save us, and nothing else can; Let me perish to rescue some wretched young man! Though when to the altar a victim I go, Aunt Tabitha'll tell me she never did so!
Why, nobody but your own family, of course. When you have used up your family, there is nothing left for you but to write your autobiography. "After my experience with my grand-aunt, I be came more cautious, very naturally. I kept traits of character, but I mixed ages as well as sexes.
There are plenty of lovers, but no husbands. Because she is poor she is passed about in the family, sometimes as lady of honour to the Princess, sometimes to the Maréchale de Noailles, her grand-aunt." Germain's feelings were trebly disturbed by the history of the child-widow.
"Nobody need tell me that she is Mrs. M'Collop's sister's husband's niece," she whispered, "although she may possibly be somebody's grand-aunt. Doesn't she remind you of Mrs. Gummidge?" Salemina returned in a quarter of an hour, and sank dejectedly on the sofa. "Run over to the inn, Francesca" she said, "and order bacon and eggs at eight-thirty to-morrow morning.
"Away into the dining-room and see what it is," said Mrs. Melville, coming out with the cocoa-jug in her hand. She had put on her brighter shawl, the tartan one. "You look as we'd been left a fortune," said Ellen. "No fear of that. If your grand-aunt Watson remembers you with a hundred pounds that's all we can expect. But there's something fine waiting for you.
"It seems," says the Count, "that there was one of his songs in particular which was called the 'Husbands' Air' L'Aria dei Marit because they didn't enjoy it quite as much as their better-halves.... My grand-aunt, Pisana Renier, married to the Procuratore Vendramin, was a patrician of the old school, of the style that was getting rare a hundred years ago.
The fourth fact was, that the infant heir of the Catherons had been removed from Catheron Royals to Powyss Place, to be brought up under the watchful eye and care of his grand-aunt, Lady Helena. On the evening of the day that saw Inez Catheron committed for trial, the post brought Lady Helena a letter.
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