Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 19, 2025
Eben, as they drew near Dr. Macgowan's gate, "what is this name by which the village people call you? I heard it on everybody's lips, but I could not make it out." Hetty colored. "It is French for Aunt Hibba," she replied. "They speak it as if it were one word, 'Tantibba." "But there was more to it," said her husband. "'Bo Tantibba, they called you."
"Oh, that means merely 'Good Aunt Hibba," she said confusedly. "You see some of them think I have been good to them; that's all: but usually they call me only 'Tantibba." "Why did you call yourself 'Hibba'?" he said. "I don't know," replied Hetty. "It came into my head." "Don't they know your last name?" asked her husband, earnestly. "Oh!" said Hetty, "I changed that too." Dr.
Second: I myself was in Welbury when there was brought to the town by some traveller a copy of a Canadian newspaper, in which, among the marriages, appeared this one: "In the parish of St. Mary's, Canada, W., by Rev. Antoine Ladeau, Mrs. Hibba Smailli to Dr. Ebenezer Williams."
At night she reached the city, where she had planned to remain for some days, to make purchases. When she entered the hotel, and was asked to register her name, no one who saw the quick and ready signature which she wrote would have dreamed that it was not her own: "Mrs. HIBBA SMAILLI, St. Mary's, Canada." "One of those Welsh women, from St.
It was literally true that, in such hours, she never recollected that she was any other than Hibba Smailli, the nurse. But, when her day's work was done, and she went home to the little lonely cottage, memories flocked in at the silent door, shut themselves in with her, and refused to be banished.
At night she reached the city, where she had planned to remain for some days, to make purchases. When she entered the hotel, and was asked to register her name, no one who saw the quick and ready signature which she wrote would have dreamed that it was not her own: "MRS. HIBBA SMAILLI, St. Mary's, Canada." "One of those Welsh women, from St.
It was literally true that, in such hours, she never recollected that she was any other than Hibba Smailli, the nurse. But, when her day's work was done, and she went home to the little lonely cottage, memories flocked in at the silent door, shut themselves in with her, and refused to be banished.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking