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She would be his before very long, she loved him, everything pointed that way. The conquest of this haughty queen of the society would be his one revenge on the whole houseful of booby clodpates." Chatelet talked of his passion in the tone of a man who would have a rival's life if he crossed his path.
"My dearest Beatrice," he said; "this will cost far more than a houseful of guests." "Never mind the cost," she said; "it will bring down a blessing on us." A quiet, beautiful Christmas. My father was in the highest of spirits, and would have the house decorated with holly and mistletoe.
"My son," replied the prodigal parent, "if I had been an ordinary father and had stayed by my family and brought up a houseful of children in obscurity, do you suppose you would have been where you are now?" At this Thiers laughed, and gave his father a post-mastership in a small town in the South of France called Carpentras.
"I hope we shall see you at the Court some day," Clarissa's husband said, with a kind of stately cordiality. "We cannot offer you the numerous attractions of Hale Castle, but we have good shooting, and we generally have a houseful in September and October." "I shall be most happy to make one of the houseful," Mr.
I do love to get with a lot of nice girls, and carry on! I have got enough fun in me to keep a houseful merry. And mother needn't say anything. I inherited it from her. Evening.-I knew it was coming! Mother has been in to see what I was about, and to give me a bit of her mind.
But the cottages were all ready, the rows of new chairs stood on the fresh piazzas, the windows were invitingly open, the pathetic little patches of flowers in front tried hard to look festive in the dry sands, and the stout landladies in their rocking-chairs calmly knitted and endeavored to appear as if they expected nobody, but had almost a houseful. Yes, the place was undeniably attractive.
"There are no more gooseberries," cried their mother, catching the younger of the two, a bluff copy of herself, and offering him to Bessie to kiss. Bessie kissed him heartily. "You are fond of children, I can see," said her new friend. "I like a houseful! Oh, when have I had a nice kiss at a boy's hard, round cheeks? Not for years! years! I have five little brothers and two sisters at home." Mrs.
Lady de Courcy at any rate understood how to receive and entertain a houseful of people, though the practice of doing so might give rise to difficult questions in the privacy of her domestic relations.
In her face and manner was that inexplicable motherliness which some girls have even while nursing their dolls some never; ay, though they may boast of a houseful of children never! Master Oliver guessed this by instinct, as children always do. He looked at her intently, a queer, mischievous, yet penetrating look; then broke into a broad, genial laugh, quite Bacchic and succumbed.
Such a stunning little house, too, so cosy and comfortable! And then the men whom he would leave behind while he slipped down South they would worship me! "How splendid! How glorious!" I cried. "How delightful to be mistress over a houseful of big, hungry, healthy boys, who come in out of the snow and want to eat up everything!" I wish I were not so weak. I feel no pain whatever.
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