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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Well, I've stood it as long as I intend to. I made up my mind that I would stick it out until after Aunt Enid's wedding. It nearly breaks my heart to do anything to hurt her and Aunt Isobel; but even they are beginning to rebel against grandmother's tyranny." "What do you mean to do?" asked Quin, with a sudden sinking of the heart. "I am not sure yet; I haven't quite made up my mind.
She was entitled under her grandmother's will to a sum which made her an heiress in a modest way, and thus there was no reason why the engagement should be a long one, and, though no date had been definitely fixed for the marriage, it was understood that it should take place at some time before the end of the summer.
Nothing could so completely and fully have certified the strength of my grandmother's purpose than that she, a pillar of the Covenant, thus complacently allowed her sons to frequent the public worship of an uncovenanted and Erastian Establishment. But there was at least one in the house of Heathknowes not to be so misled by the outward graces of the body.
'It is very obliging of Mr. Hammond always to go where you wish, returned Mary, who could not help a bitter feeling when she remembered her grandmother's cruel suggestion. 'Has he no tastes or inclinations of his own? 'Yes, he has, plenty of them, and much loftier tastes than mine, I can tell you. But he's kind enough to let me hang on to him, and to put up with my frivolity.
"Bonjour, madame," replied Mlle. Blanche with an elegant, ceremonious bow as, under cover of an unwonted modesty, she endeavoured to express, both in face and figure, her extreme surprise at such strange behaviour on the part of the Grandmother. "How the woman sticks out her eyes at me! How she mows and minces!" was the Grandmother's comment.
I mounted the more rapidly because the stairway had already begun to fill with dread shadows; and in the turnings and corners I saw the imaginary forms of ghosts and monsters that at nightfall always pursued me as I ran up the stairs. My aunt Bertha's room, with its simple white muslin curtains, was as modest as my grandmother's.
When the sound of the horses' hoofs had died away in the distance, Sappho laid her head on her grandmother's shoulder and wept uncontrollably. Rhodopis remonstrated and blamed, but all in vain, she could not stop her tears.
When she went back to Winfield, he was absorbed in a calculation he was making on the back of an envelope. "You're not to use your eyes," she said warningly, "and, oh Carl! It was my grandmother's and she's given us every bit of it, and you're to stay to supper!" "Must be in a fine humour," he observed. "I'm ever so glad. Come here, darling, you don't know how I've missed you."
She that is, her ladyship left the carriage at the "George," and took to her feet to go shopping just as you or I may have done many a time in our lives. And sister was taking her forty winks; and I was sitting with my gown up above my knees and my feet on the fender, pulling out my grandmother's lace which I'd been washing. The worst has yet to be told.
'She told me that she and our grandmother once had a fancy rather a silly one, I think, though I didn't say so for having each other's initial on their things things like this, I mean. So when somebody gave them each a watch, two the same, they exchanged them. Lady Myrtle doesn't know what became of our grandmother's, but she thinks it was lost or stolen, otherwise mother would have had it.
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