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Not one of them can fill it, and we've tried nearly a dozen. If I could only find the original!" "Eh?" says Mr. Robert, who's been payin' more attention to manipulatin' the soda siphon than to Oakley's beefin'. "What original?" "The dumbest, woodenest, most conscientious young female person it has ever been my lot to meet," goes on Mr. Mills. "Talk about your rare types!
Oakley had been excellent; I acted it, even with the advantage of her teaching, very tamely. Jealousy, in any shape, was not a passion that I sympathized with; the tragic misery of Bianca's passion was, however, a thing I could imagine sufficiently well to represent it; but not so Mrs. Oakley's fantastical frenzies.
It was a messenger from the "House," as they still called Oakley's home, and he wanted them to be out of the cottage by the next afternoon, as the new servants were coming and would want the rooms. The message was so curt, so hard and decisive, that Fannie was startled out of her grief into immediate action. "Well, we got to go," she said, rising wearily.
I little then imagined how profoundly and strangely involved my uncle's fate would one day become with mine. I was interrupted by Captain Oakley's voice at the window. He was leaning on the window-sill, and looking in with a smile the window being open, the morning sunny, and his cap lifted in his hand. 'Good-morning, Miss Ruthyn.
Oakley I have but one recollection, which is that of having once, while acting it with my father, disconcerted him to such a degree as to compel him to turn up the stage in an uncontrollable fit of laughter. I remember the same thing happening once when I was playing Beatrice to his Benedict. Oakley's jealous fury.
"Oh!" said Alexia, in a surprised voice. "Well, I think she's perfectly and all-through-and-through horrid, so! Don't race like this through the streets, Polly. You'll get there soon enough." But Polly turned a deaf ear, and at last the prescription was handed over the counter at Oakley's, and after what seemed an endless time to Polly, the medicine was given to her.
Tarrytown. Second. Isaac Reed's and John Hammond's, near Sawmill river. Third. Starr's and Moses Miller's, one and a half miles in front of Young's. Fourth. Merritt's and neighbouring houses, near Farmer Oakley's. By this arrangement the extent of my command is contracted three miles, and the distance from my left to the Sound is three miles less than before.
"They're giving a dance for you and dinner a week from Saturday, at the golf club. In your honour." "Dance!" Elizabeth closed her eyes, faintly. Then, "Who is?" "Well, Mr. Oakley's really giving it that is, it was his idea. But the club wanted to tender some fitting " "I won't go." "Oh, yes, you will." Elizabeth did not argue the point. She had two questions to ask. "Have the boys come back?"
It was not easy to get at Uncle Silas's 'Times' or 'Morning Post, which we fancied would explain these horrible allusions; but Milly bethought her of a sergeant in the militia, resident in Feltram, who knew the destination and quarters of every regiment in the service; and circuitously, from this authority, we learned, to my infinite relief, that Captain Oakley's regiment had still two years to sojourn in England.
It had got to justify all Oakley's devotion; it had got somehow to make amends to him, even if he never was to know of it, for this last unfair stroke of destiny.
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