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Stanley; "and yet the idea of entering into a suit of this kind is very painful!" "If it be a conspiracy, there is no treatment too bad for those who have put the plot together!" exclaimed Harry. "What a double-dyed villain Clapp must be!" "He will end his career in the State-Prison," said Mr. Wyllys. "The Hubbards, too; that is another disagreeable part of the business," said Harry.
"Your new neighbours, sir, the Taylors; your old friends, the Hubbards, Van Hornes, Bernards " "I hope you will like the Taylors, Agnes; but I don't know much about them. I am glad you thought of asking them this evening, for he brought me a letter, you remember, from New York."
Stewart Hubbard this afternoon, and Mr. Hubbard is going to have you paint him. Isn't that good?" Her husband looked up in evident pleasure. "That isn't so bad," was his reply. "He'll make a stunning picture, and the Hubbards are precisely the sort of people one likes to have dealings with. Is he going at it soon?" "He is coming to see you to-morrow, Mrs. Hubbard said.
And we'll sail for the Malay Peninsula, or an undiscovered island, and wear Mother Hubbards and live on breadfruit, and you and your precious conventions can go to pot."
Wyllys, of her niece, who was sitting near the window. "The Hubbards," she replied. "What, Patsey Hubbard?" "Oh, no; her cousins very different persons. The Longbridge Hubbards, whose acquaintance you have not yet made." Two ladies, radiant with elegance, entered the room, and were introduced, by Miss Agnes, to her sister-in-law, as Mrs. Hilson, and Miss Emmeline Hubbard.
Garnett's curiosity as to the Hubbards' share in Hermione's marriage was appeased before he had been seated five minutes at their table. Mrs. Woolsey Hubbard was an expansive blonde, whose ample but disciplined outline seemed the result of a well-matched struggle between her cook and her corset-maker. She talked a great deal of what was appropriate in dress and conduct, and seemed to regard Mrs.
It was almost as bad as the time I wore that sweet little yellow Empire gown. I noticed that everybody seemed solemn and queer, but I never dreamed that I was the cause until my mother-in-law came to me afterward, blushing, and told me that Mr. Talbert never allowed any of the family to wear Mother Hubbards around the house. MOTHER HUBBARDS! I could have moaned.
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