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Pleydell as a very erudite and fa- ce-ti-ous person. By degrees the rest of the party dropped off and left these three gentlemen together. Their conversation turned to Mrs. Bertram's settlements. 'Now what could drive it into the noddle of that old harridan, said Pleydell, 'to disinherit poor Lucy Bertram under pretence of settling her property on a boy who has been so long dead and gone?
"Why, she's PRETTY!" was Blix's first smothered exclamation, as if she had expected a harridan. K. D. B. looked like a servant-girl of the better sort, and was really very neatly dressed. She was small, little even. She had snappy black eyes, a resolute mouth, and a general air of being very quiet, very matter-of-fact and complacent.
Nothing could have been more cordial than Lady Fareham's welcome to her sister, nor were it easy to imagine a life more delightful than that at Chilton Abbey in that autumnal season, when every stage of the decaying year clothed itself with a variety and brilliancy of colouring which made ruin beautiful, and disguised the approach of winter, as a court harridan might hide age and wrinkles under a yellow satin mask and flame-coloured domino.
"But now I think of it, I am not sure that he is beyond the influence of one woman at least; the one over there Madame de S , you know. Formerly the dead were allowed to rest, but now it seems they are at the beck and call of a crazy old harridan. We revolutionists make wonderful discoveries. It is true that they are not exactly our own. We have nothing of our own.
As he walked across Hanover Square and down Bond Street to his rooms he did assert to himself plainly that the "old harridan," as he called her, was at work for her second girl, and he shook his head and winked his eye as he thought of it.
Trust Jeremy Rofflash for that. By God, sir, I'll swear there's no man in the world readier with a plan when its wanted. Look ye here, Mr. Dorrimore, I've the whole thing cut and dried in the hollow of my hand. To come to the point. The old harridan means to fleece you. I don't. Damme sir, I'm a man of my word.
Thwarted, I am senseless enough at times to become like a bullying schoolboy, and I say the first outrageous things which come to my tongue conduct worthy only of a harridan. It was so that night at Aylingford. You were entirely right, I was entirely wrong. Forgive me, Barbara." "I forgive, yes, but you must not expect me to forget so readily," she answered.
Did you ever come across such an old woman before! And she has him completely under her thumb. Are you prepared to live with that harridan?" "You may let me alone, mamma, for all that. She won't be in my way after I'm married, I can tell you." "You'll have something to do then." "I ain't a bit afraid of her." "And to ask us to meet such people as this American!"
Old harridan!" The innkeeper seemed to me to be about to die of wild terror. It was a dreadful moment. One could not help but feel sorry for this poor wretch, whose sole offence was that he kept an inn and also chose to keep a parrot in his garden. The Countess sailed grandly toward the door of the hotel. To the solemn protestations of six or seven servants she paid no heed.
"I don't see how Miss Webster's will can be any concern of mine," Martin replied stiffly. The attorney ignored the observation. Continuing with serenity, he observed: "As I understand it, you and Miss Webster were not " he coughed hesitatingly behind his hand. "No, we weren't," cut in Martin. "She was a meddling, aggravating old harridan. I hated her, and I'm glad she's gone."
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