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I know they would be happy to see you, hair and all. One's own people " "My folks? That's just it. If the Prodigal Son had been a daughter they'd probably have handed her one of her sister's mother hubbards, and put her to work washing dishes in the kitchen. You see, after Ma died my brother married, and I went to live with him and Lil.
The Stewart Hubbards, who were the finest and fiercest aristocrats in town, and whose ancestors had been possessed not only of influence but of wealth ever since early colonial days, were old and dear friends of Mrs. Frostwinch and always decorated her parlors on gala nights with their benign presence. Mr.
"Yes, they'll all be there the Hubbards, the Gages, and the whole crowd of Parmelees, and Kittie Corwith and her father, and all the rest, and and the Beldens! The Beldens there!" She turned fiercely on her mother. "What do you think of that?" Eliza Marshall was cut to the quick.
It is a very different person; the family are great favourites of your's." "One of the Van Hornes?" Mrs. Wyllys shook her head. "One of the Hubbards? Is it John Hubbard, the principal of the new Academy?" inquired Miss Agnes, faintly. "Do you suppose I would marry a man of two-or-three-and-twenty!" exclaimed Mrs. Wyllys with indignation.
Well, I'm awfully glad now that I didn't fall in love with him. I could have, but I wouldn't." Miss Ponsonby's appearance at the Hubbards' party was the biggest sensation Glenboro had had for years. And in her way, she was a positive belle.
And there were girls, too, seven or eight of them, in bright trade-cotton Mother Hubbards a bevy of black-eyed little heathen savages, who bore a hand with the trays, and added their saucy laughter to the general gayety, helping out Larry the barkeep as he drew unending corks or stopped to wipe the sweat off his forehead, saying, "Genelmen, the drinks is on Billy," or Tommy, or Long Joe, or whoever it was that was treating.
She became so much agitated that it was feared she would again fall into a deep swoon, and she was carried from the carriage to a sofa in the drawing-room. Neither Miss Agnes nor Mr. Wyllys was at home; they had gone to their afflicted neighbours the Hubbards.
You must dine here to-night he is coming. We're all dining with the Hubbards, and they expect you. They have given Hermy some very good diamonds though I should have preferred a cheque, as she'll be horribly poor. But I think Kate Hubbard means to do something about the trousseau Hermy is at Paquin's with her now. You've no idea how delightful all our friends have been.
Porter the bits of luck came to an end. Try as she would, Mamie could discover no other silver linings in the cloud-bank. And even these ameliorations of the disaster were only temporary. Ruth would return. Worse, Mrs. Porter would return. Like two Mother Hubbards, they would go to the cupboard, and the cupboard would be bare. And to her, Mamie, would fall the task of explanation.
There stands the little cottage of the Hubbards, looking just as it did three years since; it is possible that one or two of the bull's-eye panes of glass may have been broken, and changed, and the grey shingles are a little more moss-grown; but its general aspect is precisely what it was when we were last there.
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