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That's just what I meant," broke in the doctor. "Well, I'm a near relative of my great-aunt's. One day, when all the rest of the family was away, she set fire to the house and burned it to the ground, with everything in it." "She didn't!" broke in Mrs. Sandworth, who had been coaxed to a fitful attention by the promise of a coherent story. Rankin laughed.
When she came down after dressing for dinner, Constance found Miss Tomalin in the dining-room, standing before her great-aunt's portrait. "Surely that isn't can that be Lady Ogram?" exclaimed the girl. "Yes; more than fifty years ago." "Do you know, I think she was rather like me!" Constance smiled, and said that there was certainly a family resemblance.
When Pamela laughs 'How Biblical! or says in her pretty, soft voice that our great-aunt's religion must have been a hard and ugly thing, I get hot with anger and feel I must stick unswervingly to the antiquated views. Is it because poor Great-aunt isn't here to make me? I don't know. "Mhor is really surprisingly naughty.
Jean's complexion was extremely pale, Janet's was florid; my grandmother's nose was straight, my great-aunt's aquiline; but by the sound of the voice, not even a son was able to distinguish one from other. The marriage of a man of twenty-seven and a girl of twenty who have lived for twelve years as brother and sister, is difficult to conceive.
But the impression of the orchestra was entirely different and I listened with delight to a passage played by a quartet, when, suddenly, came a blast from the brass instruments the trumpets, trombones and cymbals. I broke into loud cries, "Make them stop. They prevent my hearing the music." They had to take me out. When I was seven, I passed out of my great-aunt's hands into Stamaty's.
Nor did she abandon the practice even when it was suggested to her that such an intercourse with those who were notoriously always on the watch to attract recruits of rank or consideration, might have the result of inclining the child to follow her great-aunt's example; and perhaps, by renouncing the world, to counteract plans which her parents might have preferred for her establishment in life.
So, fifteen minutes later they were all driving away in the carriages which had remained for them at the house. And " here Joyce paused dramatically, "not one of them, except my great-aunt's friend, Mrs. Durand, ever saw her again!" "But but " began Cynthia. "Wait," said Joyce. "I haven't finished yet!
Wopsle's great-aunt, who staggered at a boy fortuitously, and pulled his ears. This was understood to terminate the Course for the evening, and we emerged into the air with shrieks of intellectual victory. Wopsle's great-aunt's sitting-room and bedchamber being but faintly illuminated through the agency of one low-spirited dip-candle and no snuffers.
Meanwhile Jude decided to link his present with his past in some slight degree by inviting to the wedding the only person remaining on earth who was associated with his early life at Marygreen the aged widow Mrs. Edlin, who had been his great-aunt's friend and nurse in her last illness.
"Was night ever so welcome before?" thought Betty, as she settled herself between the four posts of her great-aunt's bed, a few hours later. "Here, at least, not an echo of war can penetrate, and if I think of other things that scald my pillow, it is almost a relief." On the following evening she went with the Montgomerys to the Army and Navy reception at the White House.
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