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"By George!" he said to the Hollisters, "do you know I correspond with three girls who are abroad and they never write letters only postals and if you believe it, I've got nearly a hamper filled with them 'pon my word I have. If only Miss Patty would write a fellow a real letter once in a while I'd be grateful." Nora received a letter from Edna Whitely. "I have some news for all of your girls.
It did not take a great deal of courage to be a Republican in our city, and I was brought up to believe that Democrats were irrational, inferior, and with certain exceptions like the Hollisters dirty beings. There was only one degree lower, and that was to be a mugwump.
It did not take a great deal of courage to be a Republican in our city, and I was brought up to believe that Democrats were irrational, inferior, and with certain exceptions like the Hollisters dirty beings. There was only one degree lower, and that was to be a mugwump.
It was no wonder that the Hollisters were Democrats, for they had a queer streak in them; owing, no doubt, to the fact that old Mr. Jules Hollister's mother had been a Frenchwoman. He looked like a Frenchman, by the way, and always wore a skullcap.
Indeed, Marietta, now a competent, sharp-eyed matron of thirty-two, could not see the most innocuous colored lithograph without an uncontrollable wave of bitterness, so present to her mind was the period when they painfully groped their way out of chromos. The date of that epoch coincided with the date of their first acquaintance with the Hollisters.
I don't like the name nearly so well as Jack. 'You shall call me Jack for old sake's sake, said Hartfield, tenderly. 'How did you think of such a name as Jack? 'Rather an effort of genius, wasn't it. Well, first and foremost I was christened Ronald John all the Hollisters are christened John name of the founder of the race; and, secondly, Maulevrier and I were always plain Mr. Morland and Mr.
Paret, the Breck's physician and friend; the Durretts and the Hambletons, iron-masters; the Hollisters, Sherwins, the McAlerys and Ewanses, Breck connections, the Willetts and Ogilvys; in short, everyone of importance in the days between the 'thirties and the Civil War.
Her mother scrimped and saved in every way possible, while the guests who came to the old-fashioned house with its handsome antique furniture and portraits were wont to declare that "the Hollisters were certainty aristocratic and of blue blood, as their house showed it so severe and yet elegant." So Mrs.
The pretty limousine stood before the Hollisters' door and a well-groomed good-looking chauffeur was taken in and presented to Mrs. Hollister, his future mistress. Grandmother, in her handsome new cloak, and Aunt Susan with Mr. Casey, took the first ride. Mr. Casey was in high spirits over Nora's choice. "Shure they till me that he has a great future." "Of course he has," said Grandmother.
The Berringers wouldn't have had him, the Hollisters and Dickinsons wouldn't have had him if his work lacked taste." "And Nancy wouldn't have had him," added Maude, and she smiled once more. "Well, I haven't consulted Nancy, or anyone else," I replied a little tartly, perhaps. "You don't seem to realize that some fashions may have a basis of reason. They are not all silly, as Lucia seems to think.
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