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Ledwich if we should not begin with some steps for getting the land." Miss Boulder, having acted as conductor, the president exclaimed, "Just so, the land is the first consideration. We must at once take steps for obtaining it." Thereupon Mrs.
Una and Fergus were missing, and Jane Taylor told me they were all gone. Oh, it is so horrid! Una had really come to be so good and so much in earnest. She behaved so well at school and church, that even Mrs. Ledwich liked her, and she used to read her Testament half the day, and bring her Sunday-school lessons to ask me about! Oh!
It is entirely to drive the poor Cocksmoor ones away for nothing else, and all out of Fanny Anderson's chatter." "Ethel, my dear," said Margaret pleadingly. "Didn't I tell you, Margaret, how, as soon as Flora knew what Mrs. Ledwich was going to do, she went and told her this was the children's only chance, and if we affronted them for a trifle, there would be no hope of getting them back.
May, and scarcely even giving herself the trouble to be brief with Mr. Anderson, who was on her other side at dinner. In the drawing-room, she left the other ladies to their own devices in her eagerness to secure a few minutes with Ethel May, and disabuse her of whatever Mrs. Ledwich or Mrs. Pugh might have said.
'And Mrs. Ledwich wanted her to settle on the Ohio to assist the runaway slaves, continued Gertrude. 'It does not tease her as if she heard it, said Mary. 'No, said the Doctor, 'she moves about like one in a dream, and has no instinct but to obey her brother.
Ledwich had come in, and treated them all as if it was her own place how she had found fault with Cherry before all the children, and as good as said she was not fit to keep a school. She had even laid hands on one of the books, and said that she should take it home, and see whether it were a fit one for them to use; whereupon Mrs.
Ledwich on the way, coming to inquire and see whether she or dear Matilda could do anything for the 'sweet sufferer. Even Mary could not help thinking that this was not the epithet most befitting poor Ave; and perhaps Mrs.
Ledwich trotted off, and put Averil into an agony that raised a needless storm in the Bankside house; Leonard declaring the request an insult, and Henry insisting that Ave ought to have no scruples in doing anything Mrs. Pugh thought proper to be done. And finally, when Ave rushed with her despair to Mary May, it was to be relieved at finding that Mrs.
Ledwich herself would have dared approach her with personal gossip; and even Mrs. Ledwich was silent here; so that Averil, too young and innocent to connect second marriages with recent widowhood, drew no conclusions from Henry's restless eagerness that his household should present the most imposing appearance.
I know you aren't, but papa said she might and you know she has so much tact and management " "As Norman says," observed Margaret doubtfully. "I cannot like the notion of Flora going and squabbling with Mrs. Ledwich and Louisa Anderson!" "What do you think, Ritchie?" asked Ethel. "Is it not too bad that they should have it all their own way, and spoil the whole female population?
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