Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 6, 2025
"You are warm, ma'am: not that it is of any consequence; but you are a little warm at present." "Nobody can charge that upon you, Miss Miskin, I must say," observed Margaret, laughing. "No, ma'am, that they cannot, nor ever will. I am not apt to be warm, and I hope I can excuse... Good morning, ladies."
"I supposed she had lost some relation." "No: she is only trying to shut out the fever. She and Miss Miskin are afraid of the milkman, and each tries to put upon the other the peril of serving a customer. This panic will destroy us if it spreads."
"Sir William's popularity is a most fortunate circumstance for us all, and for the place at large." "Oh dear, your ladyship! what should we be, not to estimate Sir William? We have our faults, like other people: but really, if we did not know how to value Sir William " "Thank Heaven!" said Miss Miskin, "we have not fallen so low as that.
"It was very moving, I assure you, to hear not one word of reproach, or even notice of Miss Miskin's desertion in this illness. What was said was common-place enough; but every word was kind. I have it all. I took it down with my pencil, behind the curtain; for I was sure Miss Miskin would never remember it.
"Oh!" cried Mrs Howell, putting her hands before her face, as if the recollection was even now too much for her, "the middle shutter stuck Bob had got it awry, and jammed it between the other two, and there, nothing that Bob could do would move it! And there we heard the noise at a distance the cries, your ladyship and the shutter would not go up! And Miss Miskin ran out, and so did I "
But, dear heart! what can Sir William, or an angel from heaven do, in some sorts of dangers? If one might ask, for one's confidential satisfaction, what does Sir William think of this affair of the church-door?" Amidst shrugs and sighs, Miss Miskin drew quite near, to hear the fate of Deerbrook revealed by Lady Hunter.
Even the news that Edward was now in the same house with Philip, could not efface from her mind what she had seen; nor could Hester help listening, though full of anxiety about her husband. "Miss Miskin was prevailed upon to leave her room at the last, I suppose?" "Scarcely.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking