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"Do people dislike young Minafer generally?" "I don't know about 'generally. I guess he gets plenty of toadying; but there's certainly a lot of people that are glad to express their opinions about him." "What's the matter with him?" "Too much Amberson, I suppose, for one thing. And for another, his mother just fell down and worshipped him from the day he was born That's what beats me!
Kinney, presiding, held in his hand, in lieu of a gavel, and considered much more impressive, a Civil War relic known as a "horse-pistol." He rapped loudly for order. "All Friends of the Ace will take their seats!" he said sharply. "I'm president of the F. O. T. A. now, George Minafer, and don't you forget it!
"Do sit down," the hospitable lady urged him, seating herself upon the sofa. "Do sit down." "No, I thank you. I wish " "Surely you're not going to run away again, when you've just come. Do sit down, Mr. Minafer. I hope you're all well at your house and at the dear old Major's, too. He's looking " "Mrs.
There were some large new mausoleums here, and shafts taller than the Ambersons', as well as a number of monuments of some sculptural pretentiousness; and altogether the new section appeared to be a more fashionable and important quarter than that older one which contained the Amberson and Minafer lots.
Strangely enough, his thoughts dwelt more upon the father than the daughter, though George could not possibly have given a reason even to himself for this disturbing preponderance. By a coincidence, though not an odd one, the thoughts and conversation of Mr. Eugene Morgan at this very time were concerned with George Amberson Minafer, rather casually, it is true. Mr.
Miss Fanny Minafer herself told me that everything George and his mother have of their own that is, just to spend as they like she says it has always come from Major Amberson." "Thrift, Horatio!" said Eugene lightly. "Thrift's an inheritance, and a common enough one here.
Isabel looked serious; however, it was her husband who suggested gloomily, "I suppose the Major's bothered about this Sydney and Amelia business, most likely." "What Sydney and Amelia business?" George asked. "Your mother can tell you, if she wants to," Minafer said. "It's not my side of the family, so I keep off." "It's rather disagreeable for all of us, Georgie," Isabel began.
The people who settled the country had to save, so making and saving were taught as virtues, and the people, to the third generation, haven't found out that making and saving are only means to an end. Minafer doesn't believe in money being spent. He believes God made it to be invested and saved." "But George isn't saving.
The Sharon girls passed on, taking the queer-looking duck with them, and George became pink with mortification as his mother called his attention to a white-bearded guest waiting to shake his hand. This was George's great-uncle, old John Minafer: it was old John's boast that in spite of his connection by marriage with the Ambersons, he never had worn and never would wear a swaller-tail coat.
He and your mother and Miss Fanny Minafer got the musicians to play another waltz when everybody else had gone downstairs and the fiddles were being put away in their cases. Papa danced part of it with Miss Minafer and the rest with your mother. Miss Minafer's your aunt, isn't she?" "Yes; she lives with us. I tease her a good deal." "What about?"
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