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"I was married four years ago, and my husband is still living" a very bitter moment to me; perhaps more bitter than to him. I knew we must see one another no more; and I who was so poor in friends, lost the dearest of them by those words. That was a great shock to me. But the next day came the second shock of meeting Kate Daltrey, my husband's half-sister.
They would think I had come to spy on their misfortune," protested Loria miserably. "I knew them too," said Roger Broom, "and I'll stay down here and keep Loria company." Lady Gardiner looked at George Trent, with whom she was having an amusing flirtation, which would certainly have been more than amusing if he had been only a quarter as rich as his half-sister.
Raw Haste, on the authority of my Lord Tennyson, is half-sister to Delay; but the Business Habits are certainly her uncles. Meanwhile, the leather merchant would lead his living investment back to John Street like a puppy dog; and, having there immured him in the hall, would depart for the day on the quest of seal rings, the only passion of his life.
This nephew's name is Dagget William C. Dagget. His mother was a half-sister of Major Calvert's. The search for this nephew has been going on for almost a year since Major Calvert heard of his brother-in-law's death but the nephew has not been found." The eminent lawyer cleared his throat eloquently and relighted the athletic cigar, which had found occasion to go out.
Has he ever even consented to see, much less to receive, your half-sister, the child of that marriage? Is not his very affection for you interwoven with his pride in you, with his belief in your ambition? Has he not summoned your cousin, Mr.
She is a dear good creature, and I am awfully fond of her; very religious too, but what the world thinks and says, and what it will say, is as much to her as what her Bible says, although it would shock her very much to hear me say so. When I made the discovery that Fan was my half-sister, I told aunt all about it.
Shelley kept a diary, the approaching Mary Godwin kept a diary, her father kept one, her half-sister by marriage, adoption, and the dispensation of God kept one, and the entire tribe and all its friends wrote and received letters, and the letters were kept and are producible when this biography needs them; but there are only three or four scraps of Harriet's writing, and no diary.
I knew you folks lived out this way somewhere, but I've not seen you since you were a little shaver. "But I'll never forget how my little half-sister used to look, and you are just like her when she was young," declared Mr. Lonergan. "Come in here, you young rascal, and let me get a closer look at you." "My Uncle Jonas?" gasped Pratt, in amazement. "That's what I am!" declared Mr. Lonergan.
When Henry's daughter Mary was made queen she tried to stop these changes, and for a few years her subjects were again obedient to the pope, but she died in 1558 and her half-sister, Elizabeth, became queen. All persons were forced to attend the religious services carried on in the manner ordered in the prayer-book. Roman Catholics could not hold any government office.
Another example of Lincoln's power to dispose summarily of people who tried his patience too far is given by Secretary Welles, who records that a Mrs. White a sister or half-sister of Mrs.
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