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"We have not cared to live in the place ourselves," said Lord Canterville, "since my grandaunt, the Dowager Duchess of Bolton, was frightened into a fit, from which she never really recovered, by two skeleton hands being placed on her shoulders as she was dressing for dinner, and I feel bound to tell you, Mr.
Aunt Barbara had smiled when another protest was timidly offered about the best bedroom, and told Betty that it was pleasant to have her just across the hall. "I am well used to my housekeeping cares," added Aunt Barbara, with a funny look across the table at her young niece; and Betty thought again, how much she liked this grandaunt.
She just used olive oil!" "How old was she?" Miss Sterling inquired with a now-I-'ve-got-you air. "She was seventy when she had the dewlap; now she's seventy-three or four." "Polly Dudley! I don't believe it!" "Why, Miss Nita, I'm telling you the solemn truth!" "Yes, yes, child! I didn't mean you! But this Aunt Susie " "Oh, she's just as honest! Why, she's mother's grandaunt, and she's lovely!
It had belonged to her grandaunt, the nun, Madelaine de Repentigny, and was kept as an heirloom in her family. "This," said she, "shall be mine till death! Embrace me, O my sisters, my bridesmaids and companions. I go now to the Ursulines to kneel at the door and crave admittance to pass a life of penitence for Le Gardeur, and of prayer for my beloved Pierre."
'We have not cared to live in the place ourselves, said Lord Canterville, 'since my grandaunt, the Dowager Duchess of Bolton, was frightened into a fit, from which she never really recovered, by two skeleton hands being placed on her shoulders as she was dressing for dinner, and I feel bound to tell you, Mr.
Then one of the wild-eyed ones stabbed Queen Marguerite, her grandaunt, you know, and the game was on. Isn't it enough to make your blood boil? As a matter of fact, the whole blamed shooting-match wouldn't make a state the size of Rhode Island, so it isn't worth much trouble except for the honor of the thing.
Betty was almost as tall and only a little more quick and graceful than her grandaunt. "It is such fun to be just the same age as you and papa," insisted Betty. "We do everything together now." She took on a pretty grown-up air, and looked at Aunt Barbara admiringly. It was only this summer that she had begun to understand how young grown people really are.
A song has been made upon Lord Bolingbroke on the subject of his passion for a young girl who escaped from her convent. Some persons say that the girl was a professed nun. She ran after the Duke Regent a long time, but could not accomplish her intention. Lady Gordon, the grandaunt of Lord Huntley, was my dame d'atour for a considerable period.
It was not just easy, for he had few family connections in the world, and she had none. "I can think of nobody to whom I should like to send you," he said. "Unless" He waited, and Diana waited; then he finished his sentence. "I was going to say, unless a certain old grandaunt of mine. Perhaps she would do." "I do not care where or who it is," said Diana. "I care, though." "Where does she live?"
"Our company's dwindling," observed Miss Crilly, as the door shut upon Mrs. Post and Mrs. Crump, "but I don't want to go home yet need I, Miss Sterling?" "Certainly not! I want you all to stay. Polly, you are queen of ceremonies what shall we do next?" "We might try some of Grandaunt Susie's exercises," twinkled Polly. "Just the thing!" "Who's Grandaunt Susie, pray?"
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