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I take him in some doughnuts whenever I fry 'em. Mr. Curtis, don't worry; I'll fix it, somehow! And until I get moved, I won't answer the bell here. Look! I'll give you a key, and you can come in without ringing if you want to." "No no! I don't want a key! I wouldn't take a key for a million dollars!" Lily's quick flush showed how innocent her offer had been.
"Not tonight, Gus: you " "Very good, then: I'll take 'em. And as many more as I want." He had squared himself on the threshold, his hands thrust deep in his pockets. He nodded toward the chair on the hearth. "Go and sit down there, please: I've got a word to say to you." Lily's quick temper was getting the better of her fears. She drew herself up and moved toward the door.
Mohun, was anxious that the marriage of his sister Lily's daughter should take place at the family home, Beechcroft. If there had been scruples, chiefly founded on the largeness of the party, and the trouble to Mrs. Mohun, these were forgotten in the convenience of being out of the way of Rockstone gossip, as well as for other reasons. "I should certainly have escaped," said General Mohun.
"For the time! what time?" muttered Kenelm, in tones too low for the pastor's ear. They moved on silently. Mr. Emlyn resumed, "You noticed the text on Lily's gravestone 'Suffer the little children to come unto me'? She dictated it herself the day before she died. I was with her then, so I was at the last." "Were you were you at the last the last? Good-day, Mr.
The recollection of that day when Lily's doorstep had been the edge of a volcano still made him shiver; and as Eleanor had briefly but definitely refused to take her usual "vacation" at Green Hill without him, there was no time when he could be sure that she would not wander out to Medfield!
'One of Lily's poetical hits, I declare! said Lord Rotherwood, 'but she need not have taken offence I did not refer to her only Claude and Emily, and perhaps no, I will not say who else. 'Then, Rotherwood, I will tell you what I am the Lily that derives all its support from the calm lake.
Braefield, but the question of Lily's marriage I have never discussed, even with her guardian. Nor, considering the childlike nature of her tastes and habits, rather than the years she has numbered, can I think the time has yet come for discussing it at all."
But Adeline was Lily's principal trouble; there was a change in her, for which her sister could not account.
In short, you could see in her a thoroughbred English lady, who had been taught in a generation before Lily's, and immeasurably superior in culture to the ordinary run of English young ladies taught nowadays.
Dangerfield's most advantageous offer. 'Oh, indeed! said Lily, becoming interested. 'Well, I suppose you suspected she had a secret? said Aunt Rebecca. 'I can only say, dear Aunt Becky, she has not told it to me. 'Now, listen to me, my dear, said Aunt Becky, laying her fan upon Lily's arm. 'So sure as you sit there, Gertrude likes somebody, and I think I shall soon know who he is.
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