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Updated: July 11, 2025
Settle and have done with it, even if it does take a little slice off your granddaughter's fortune? Now look here" his voice became persuasive "why not take me into your confidence? Make a friend of me. You want advice; let me advise you. I can get you good investments far better than you know anything of good and safe investments at six certain, and sometimes seven and even eight per cent.
The Bube explained the situation in voluble Yiddish, and made Esther wince again under the impassioned invective on her clumsiness. The old beldame expended enough oriental metaphor on the accident to fit up a minor poet. If the family died of starvation, their blood would be upon their granddaughter's head. "Well, why don't you wipe it up, stupid?" said Becky.
The coachman showed rosy blossoms on his face deeper even than his granddaughter's, his being drawn from the ale cask, Fanny's from youth and innocence, and from the fountains of the dawn. This lay in a monstrous inaptitude for turning round.
I regret very much my granddaughter's absence, but it permits me to offer you her room, which happens to be vacant." But Tom attempted to make excuse. "No, no," said Madam Bellamy, answering her own thoughts rather than his words. "You must certainly stay the night with us; we shall make you most welcome. It will give my husband great pleasure; he will have many questions to ask you."
Once the old boy jumped at me like a tiger because I carried in a bad report." "Could you make up a false message?" "It's against the law, sir." "It's not against the law to keep a man from going crazy." "Crazy?" "I mean what I say. Henshaw is balancing on the ragged edge of insanity. Mark my words! If the news comes of his granddaughter's death, he'll fall on the other side.
There had been a going and coming of her maid, a thumping about of boxes, an ordering of four-wheelers; it appeared to old Mrs. Tramore that something of the objectionableness, the indecency, of her granddaughter's prospective connection had already gathered about the place.
The marchioness got out with M. Folgat's assistance; and her foot was hardly on the ground, when the house-door opened, and Dionysia threw herself into her arms, too deeply moved to speak. At last she broke forth, "Oh, my mother, my mother! what a terrible misfortune!" In the passage M. de Chandore was coming forward. He had not been able to follow his granddaughter's rapid steps.
"Oh, sir! you are too good. Would to heaven that I might find some place in your household akin to that which I once filled during the happiest years of my life, when I lived here as your dear granddaughter's governess," said Rose Stillwater, with a sigh and a smile. "You shall never leave us again with my consent. Ah, we have had a very pleasant evening. What do you think, Clarence?"
Nothing more was said upon the subject of the mourning; and Bell Crawford made the necessary arrangements for procuring her clothing that suggested no remembrance of her recent loss. John Crawford had not forgotten the words of the old man, as to money in his granddaughter's name, lying in one of the city banks.
"After supper." "That accounts for it! You took too much wine, and misunderstood my granddaughter's reply She must have referred you to me for an explanation of her engagement, and consequent inability to entertain any other man's proposal. That was it!" "May I refer you to Miss Haught for confirmation of my words?" "I say, as I said before, no." "May I see the young lady herself?"
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