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"We wanted to keep him straight, as I told you we would, and he would probably get on a big tear if he knew his service-days were numbered. I didn't look for its being granted for forty-eight hours yet." "Well, he will know it before night; and no doubt he will be badly cut up. Clancy was a fine soldier before he married that harridan of a woman."
"It seems right to me," she said, looking away through the drifting smoke. "Why should the coming of life mean pain for someone?" "Don't know, old lady. But it does. I say, how do you think I'm getting on?" They looked across the clearing and felt rather proud. "I love it," he said simply, "taking nature in hand a bit she's a wicked old harridan, isn't she? A naughty old lady gone wrong!
She had lied, the good lady! In his exasperation, Monsieur Bovary the elder, smashing a chair on the flags, accused his wife of having caused the misfortune of their son by harnessing him to such a harridan, whose harness wasn't worth her hide. They came to Tostes. Explanations followed. There were scenes.
And I'll tell you what; I believe that old harridan of an aunt of mine is willing to do the same thing now again. Of course she doesn't say as much. She wouldn't dare do that, but I do believe she means it. I wonder where she expects to go to!" "That's grateful on your part." "Upon my soul I hate her. I do indeed.
How could I, for instance, face life as a lodging-house keeper, or at best as a sort of companion to some ill-tempered old harridan, who would probably only employ me to have some one to bully? You yourself, Jeanne, are fond of luxuries." It was a new reflection to Jeanne. She became suddenly thoughtful. "I have noticed your tastes," the Princess continued.
Whereupon he got into his buggy and drove off without another word. But the Dale girls and Melody bless them all for a set of angels! would soon put him to rights again, thought the doctor, and he would send old Mrs. Prabbles some pills in the morning. There was nothing whatever the matter with the old harridan.
She spoke with studied indifference; but her fingers were busy uprooting a patch of moss. "Oh yes, India has a healthy appetite for unsparing workers! She is a grasping harridan, who demands all and offers nothing. She devours the lives of men who are foolish enough to lose their hearts to her, and wrecks their bodies by way of thanks." Quita's lips lifted in the merest shadow of a smile.
"Ha, chetife! 'Tis easier work honouring a fair damsel, with golden hair and rose-leaf cheek, than a toothless old harridan that is for ever plaguing thee." "Belike the Lord knew that, and writ therefore His fifth command." Godfrey did not answer, for his attention was diverted.
"She will be pretty," replied Mademoiselle Rogron. "You ought to send her to Paris and put her in a shop," continued the colonel. "She would make her fortune. The milliners all want pretty girls." "Is that really your advice?" asked Sylvie, in a troubled voice. "Good!" thought the colonel, "I was right. Vinet advised me to marry Pierrette just to spoil my chance with the old harridan.
When she came to "Florida and Teche debentures, sixty-two and a half to sixty-five and three-fourths," she was startled by a sort of shrill shout. "Ay! that's a rise! Some rigging design there! I must write I must. Where, where has that harridan hid my glasses? Why, it is almost twelve o'clock! the boy will be here for the paper immediately. And the post! the post! I must catch the post.
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