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The day following this strange adventure I arrived at Limmeridge House, and the next morning made the acquaintance of the household. Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie, her half-sister, were, in point of appearance, the exact reverse of each other. The former was a tall, masculine-looking woman, with a masculine capacity for deep friendship.
Most of the women who composed his harem were of gentle blood, the fairest of the daughters of Siamese nobles and of princes of the adjacent tributary states; the late queen consort was his own half-sister.
Lady Alice paused. She still held her half-sister by the arm, towering above her. She was quite as thin as Kitty, but much taller and more largely built; and, beside the elaborate elegance of Kitty's mourning, Alice's black veil and dress had a severe, conventual air. They were almost the dress of a religious. "How are you?" she said, gently. "I often think of you. Are you happy in your marriage?"
"And the young person who was at my bedside, is she his wife?" "Nay, friend, she is half-sister to the wife of Phineas Cophagus by a second marriage, and a maiden, who was named Susannah Temple at the baptismal font; but I will go to Phineas Cophagus and acquaint him of your waking, for such were his directions."
He found the Queen's half-sister "an admirable woman" and Prince Alfred "a fine gentlemanly sailor."
In the years of the regency, when the government was in the hands of his half-sister, he did not give promise of those remarkable abilities and that life of self-control which afterwards marked his career.
Stephen went up country where his wife come from and brought home a little gal, that was her niece, to keep house for him; and then what did Reuben do but go down to Zoar, where his wife come from, and git her half-sister both of 'em young, scart little things, and no kin to one another and they can't do nothin' even if they wanted to. Bad-tempered? Wal, no.
"Oh, I didn't know Jerry had a married sister," murmured Sylvia indifferently, glad of any comment to make. "She's only his half-sister, a great deal older." "But you haven't a daughter old enough to be married?" queried Sylvia, astonished. "Oh no no. Mattie is the daughter of the Colonel's first wife." "Oh," said Sylvia awkwardly, remembering now that Mrs.
At the first safe opportunity Miss Halcombe cautiously led her half-sister to speak of their mother, of old times, and of Anne Catherick. Miss Fairlie's recollections of the little scholar at Limmeridge were, however, only of the most vague and general kind.
Edith was a famous castle-builder, and forgetting that this half-sister, were she living, would be much older than herself, she thought of her only as a school-girl, whose home should be at Collingwood, and on whom MRS. RICHARD HARRINGTON would lavish so much affection, wasting on her the surplus love which, perhaps, could not be given to the father husband.
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