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Then she looked at Josephine on the back seat, to see what she thought of it; but the brown sallow face in the little bonnet was quite still and like itself beyond Kate's power to read. The stillness, doubt, and suspense, were almost unbearable. She longed to speak, but had no courage, and could almost have screamed with desire to have it over, end as it would.
This was also the first time that the Emperor had made use of the privilege of passing in a carriage through the garden of the Tuileries. His cortege was superb, that of the Empress Josephine not less brilliant; and the intoxication of the people reached such a height, that it was beyond expression.
"Think that you are in the house of true friends, who would neither see you harmed nor insulted," said Josephine. "Oh, I am sure of that," answered her companion. "Then listen to me," said Josephine, "and whatever surprise you may feel, pray do not say it until you have heard all. Mrs.
You know you have constantly expressed the hope that neither of them would hang fire like dear Julia." "Oh, I know it. I'm a selfish brute, Josephine," I answered, beginning to hone my razor with the desperate air of one who would fain cut his own throat as the simplest solution of the problem of living. And only six months ago the horizon of my domestic happiness looked so clear and comforting.
A few weeks after the burning of College Hall, a small fire broke out at the Zeta Alpha House, but was immediately quenched, and Associate Professor Josephine H. Batchelder, of the class of 1896, writing in College News of the self-control of the students, says: "Perhaps the best example of 'Wellesley discipline since the fire, occurred during the brief excitement occasioned by the Zeta Alpha House fire.
The maid opened wide her eyes in surprise. Her mistress did not usually go walking so early. "Madame va se promener de si bonne heure?" "Don't ask questions, Josephine," replied her mistress sharply. "Do as I tell you. I'm going out of town. Pack my two trunks at once." "Oui, Madame."
The precise nature of the friendship that existed between Josephine Thorn and Ronald Surbiton could not be accurately inferred from the above specimen of correspondence; and indeed the letter served rather to confuse than to enlighten the recipient as to the nature of his relations with the writer.
Kate rose up then in all the terrifying dignity of outraged motherhood, grasped Buddy by the wrist, and led him away, in the direction of the hairbrush, if one would judge by Buddy's reluctance to go. "So you are going to climb the Big Hill, are you?" Miss Josephine observed, when the two were quite alone. "It is to be hoped, Mr.
It was at the Luxembourg, in the salons of which the adorable Josephine so well performed the honours, that the word 'Madame' came again into use.
The hypothesis is therefore that she played on his vanity, and not on his confidence or judgment, the sequel being the complete surrender of Napoleon. Josephine, whether from fear of the penalty or the purity of her motives, never again allowed herself to be placed in the same hazardous position.
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