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You needn't stand there, bribing the judge beforehand." Ruth turned right round and kissed Barbara. "I want you to go with me and see if Mrs. Hadden and Mrs. Lewis Marchbanks would let me teach the children." "Teach the children! What?" "O, music, of course. That's all I know, pretty much. And make Rose understand." "Ruth, you're a duck! I like you for it! But I'm not sure I like it."
Colonel Marchbanks did not give his opinion at the time, but his air and expression suggested that, fire-eater though he was, he by no means regretted the turn events had taken. Holding out his hand to Lawrence, in a condescending manner, he thanked him for the service he had just rendered.
Up our hill straggle the more ambitious houses, that have shaken off the dust from their feet, or their foundations, and surrounded themselves with green grass, and are shaded with trees, and are called "places." There are the Marchbanks places, and the "Haddens," and the old Pennington place.
She did not resist; and there followed a sound a very slight sound; yet it was not so slight but that it sent a shock of alarm and anger to the soul of Colonel Marchbanks, who came up at that awkward moment. "Sir! sirrah! senhor, rascal!" spluttered the old man, as Manuela ran away from the scene, "what why what do you mean?" Drawing himself up, Lawrence said, with a look of dignity
"I don't know, Olivia," said Rosamond, slowly, "about these 'own things. They are just what begin to puzzle me." It was the bravest thing our elegant Rosamond had ever done. Olivia Marchbanks was angry. She all but took back her invitation. "Never mind," she said, getting up to take leave. "It must be some time yet; I only mentioned it.
Ruth knew what the "no company" meant; just that there was no regular inviting, and so no slight in asking her alone, out of her family; but she knew the Marchbanks parlors were always full of an evening, and that the usual set would be pretty sure to get together, and that the end of it all would be an impromptu German, for which she should play, and that the Marchbanks's man would be sent home with her at eleven o'clock.
The Trianons presented new delights, and Patty fancied herself transported back to the days of Marie Antoinette and her elaborately planned pleasures. A place of especial interest was the carriage house, where are exhibited the Royal State carriages. As they were about to enter, Phil Marchbanks, who was ahead, turned round with a look of comical dismay on his face.
Eighteen years ago your brother, Ralph Vane Meiklejohn, murdered a man named Marchbanks, who had discovered that you and your brother were defrauding his wife of funds held by your bank as her trustees. I have here the records of the crime. I do not say that your brother, who has since been a convict and is now assisting you under the name of Ralph Voles, could be charged with that crime.
Consequently, she moves to laws that seem erratic to those for whom a pair of compasses can lay down the limit. Consequently, her wedding was "odd." If Olivia Marchbanks had been going to be married there would have been a "circle" invited. Nobody would have been left out; nobody would have been let in.
"Colonel Marchbanks, I can look you honestly in the face, and say that neither in word nor deed have I done you or your daughter wrong." "No have you not?" shouted the colonel. "Sir! rascal! there is a looking-glass over the mantelpiece in the estancia. Go there, look yourself in the face, and say, if you dare, that you have done me no wrong!" He wheeled about violently and strode away, fuming.
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