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There's that young clergyman," rejoined Hatty, "and Margaret is so pious. I suppose that's why she has never been popular with men." "My dear child," breathed Mrs. Culpeper in remonstrance, and she added emphatically, as if the doubt were a disparagement of Stephen's attractions, "Of course she likes him. Why, it would be a perfectly splendid marriage for Margaret Blair."
And now, darling, instead of putting on your own things, which are all laid out so nicely, you will have to help me to get ready.” Hatty was glad to be kept very busy that she might not have a moment to regret her choice, and she made herself so actively useful, that Mrs. Lee was not at all too late in joining the group waiting for her in the hall below.
You wanted me; I am sure you wanted me." "Why, of course I wanted you," returned Hatty, in a weak, happy voice, "and that is just why I would not let them send. You know how unhappy I have always been because of my horrid selfishness, and I did want to be good for once, and I said to myself when Mrs.
When the hair was brushed smoothly, Hatty’s face looked very sweet from the effort she had made to do right, and she well deserved the affectionate kiss her mother pressed on her lips. “Perhaps I could help Aunt Barbara get ready for church,” said Hatty, one right action leading to another. “Aunt Barbara is not well enough to go, to-day. I am very sorry, on my own account as well as on hers.
"I say what?" asked Sophy, disregarding the other particulars. "You say `coom' and `boot, my darling, and it ought to be `kem' and `bet'," said Hatty, with such an affected pronunciation that Sophy and Fanny both burst out laughing. "What do you mean?" said Sophy amid her laughter. "Then Fanny, my dear, you are not to escape! You are better bred than Sophy, because you take castor oil "
"The less you have to do with girls like Hatty, the better!" he told her. "You've got plenty to do without mixing up with her!" "She said " Alix began. "The letter said " "Oh, sure, I know what she'd say!" Martin conceded, furious at Alix's interference, trembling with anger and resentment, and only anxious to close the conversation. "I know all about her and her kind.
She received "happy Hatty," as she was called, with the remark, "I have a reputation for training wild colts, and I will try this one." And the wise woman succeeded. She won Harriet's confidence, not by the ten thousand times repeated "don't," which so many children hear in home and school, till life seems a prison-pen.
Hatty, a pale, sickly-looking girl, whose really fine features were marred by unhealthy sullenness and an anxious, fretful expression, was hanging on every word; while the tall schoolgirl Ella, and the smaller, bright-eyed Katie, were standing behind their mother, trying to hide their awkwardness and bashfulness, till Tom came to the rescue by finding them seats, with a whispered hint to Katie that it was not good manners to stare so at a stranger.
The world seemed glorified in sunshine; every one they met seemed happy, and yet Edna was wretched, and Hatty ill perhaps dying; and a great black cloud seemed to overshadow everything, a sense of terror and confusion, of utter chaos. "In the midst of life we are in death." Why did those words come to Bessie? Just before the train moved Richard broke the silence.
She will fill the house with company that will suit me; and I shall just look sharp after her and keep her in order." "Hatty!" cried Fanny, in a shocked tone. "I hope you will keep yourself in order," said my Aunt Kezia, drily. "Little Cary, you have not spoken yet. What do you want to do?" Her voice softened as I had never heard it do before when she spoke to me.
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