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Updated: July 13, 2025
It sounds to me an unpleasing business, but it is obviously doing you good, so far. I only wish it may last. The danger may be reaction, after you have finished the course and lost touch with this young man." In a way it was a pity you didn't take up church-going instead; religion lasts." "And these quackeries do not," Grandmama finished her sentence to herself, not wishing to be discouraging.
She stood at the window seeing "Grandmama's tutor," as she named him, carried off by grandmama. Her nature was avenged on her tyrant grandmama: it brought up almost to her tongue thoughts which would have remained subterranean, under control of her habit of mind, or the nursery's modesty, if she had been less tyrannically treated.
They were subterranean thoughts, Nature's original, such as the sense of injustice will rouse in young women; and they are better unstirred, for they ripen girls over-rapidly when they are made to revolve near the surface. It flashed on the girl why she had been treated tyrannically. "Grandmama has good taste in tutors," was all that she said while the thoughts rolled over.
I was convinced there were two, and there is but one. I never saw any thing equal to the comfort and style Candles everywhere. I was telling you of your grandmama, Jane, There was a little disappointment. The baked apples and biscuits, excellent in their way, you know; but there was a delicate fricassee of sweetbread and some asparagus brought in at first, and good Mr.
To tell you the truth, I believe they could not make out money enough; but Euphrasia has a fortune of her own, besides what we shall have together, for Grandmama left her every thing that was in her own power." "Is Lady Euphrasia your elder sister?" "O no, poor little thing, she's two years younger.
This evening she rang for the little maid, May, who would rather have been writing to her young man, but liked to oblige the nice old lady, of whom the kitchen was fond. It was all very well for Grandmama, Mrs. Hilary thought, stormily revolting against that placidity by the hearth.
Master Harry, for example, having confided to Cobbs one evening, when the latter was watering the flowers, that he was going on a visit to his grandmama at York "'Are you indeed, sir? I hope you'll have a pleasant time. I'm going into Yorkshire myself, when I leave here. 'Are you going to your grandmama's, Cobbs? 'No, sir.
I really must be very, very good next half, or else perhaps you will not let me see it, after all?" "Fear not, my child; you will be good, if you ask of God to make you so, for Jesus' sake, as many times a day as you are told to do at school. And now I see the carriage waits, so let us go." "I really think you are a perfect Crystal Palace, dearest Grandmama," said Frank, when Mrs.
She would continue to be the Spears' housekeeper, she said, and wait for her daughter to return to Japan with "muchly honorable learning." During the hot weeks when Miss Campbell and the Motor Maids were sojourning in the mountains, old "great grandmama Nedda" had also passed into another sphere. Her ending was peaceful, they said; she had slipped quietly away one day at sunset.
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