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Van Horne, "if you are going to quarrel so much, with my little friend's face, we had better find something else to talk about; for she is a very great favourite of mine." "And justly I dare say. But, I am a great admirer of beauty, you know; and I cannot keep my eyes off Jane's lovely face." The conversation then turned upon the Hubbards.
They were mostly unmarried, or if married they lived at a distance, and they did not visit the Hubbards at their lodgings. Marcia was a little shy, and did not quite know whether they ought to call without being asked, or whether she ought to ask them; besides, Mrs. Nash's reception-room was not always at her disposal, and she would not have liked to take them all the way up to her own room.
After another silence, Elinor turned to Hazlehurst with an anxious look, saying: "And your other friends?" "All safe; love." "The crew too?" "One of the crew is lost; Black Bob, a sailor from Longbridge." "I remember him; he had no family I believe, Aunt," she said. "None, my child, that I have ever heard of." "The heaviest blow has fallen upon the Hubbards," said Harry.
Newell's friends, who presented, on the opposite side of the nave, every variety of individual conviction in dress and conduct. Of the two groups the latter was decidedly the more interesting to Garnett, who observed that it comprised not only such recent acquisitions as the Woolsey Hubbards and the Baron, but also sundry more important figures which of late had faded to the verse of Mrs.
He could hardly have had his wife's motives for wishing to maintain the vague tie between them; but conjecture lost itself in trying to picture what his point of view was likely to be, and Garnett, on his way to the Hubbards' dinner that evening, could not help regretting that circumstances denied him the opportunity of meeting so enigmatic a person. The young man's knowledge of Mrs.
"They are very disagreeable, certainly. How often shall we be required to encounter this desperate elegance? I almost begin to repent having fixed myself at Longbridge." "And between Mrs. Bibbs, and Mrs. Tibbs, too!" said Elinor, laughing. "However, for your consolation, Aunt, I can assure you these two ladies are far from being so very 'fascinating' as the Hubbards. Mrs.
Newell's methods made him feel that her husband might be an interesting study. This, however, did not affect his resolve to keep clear of the business. He entered the Hubbards' dining-room with the firm intention of refusing to execute Mrs. Newell's commission, and if he changed his mind in the course of the evening it was not owing to that lady's persuasions.
"I think," she added abruptly, "that some trouble is hanging over those wretched Hubbards." "Some new one?" asked Halleck, with sad sarcasm, turning his eyes towards her, as if with the resolution of facing her. "You know he's left his place on that newspaper." "Yes, I heard that when I was at home before." "There are some very disagreeable stories about it. They say he was turned away by Mr.
To say nothing of their own feelings, and ours, we could not disgrace the Red Cross by sending that stately gray-haired mother and the three delicate young ladies out into the world equipped by our alleged bounty in scanty calico 'Mother Hubbards, men's cow-hide brogans, and scare-crow headgear.
"He knows he isn't needed, but he goes," she said to herself, as she gazed dejectedly out of the window at the gaslamps on the other side of the street. "And he will of course charge the Hubbards for his services, admitting, however, that his services are nothing. That is not conscientious it is not professional. He is not practising for the love of his profession, but for the love of money.
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