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She is an orphan and Madame Okraska supports her." "She doesn't look like a protégée," said Gregory Jardine, his eyes on the young person thus described; "she looks like a protector." "I should think she must be most of all a problem," said Betty. "What a price to pay for celebrity these hangers-on who make one ridiculous by their infatuation.
Could Reuben have seen or conceived all this, he might have acted differently. As it was, he entered the Doctor's study an hour later, with the utmost apparent coolness. "Well, father," said he, "I have offered marriage to your motherless and pious French protégée, and she declines." "My poor son!" said the Doctor.
This piece of meanness did not surprise me, but it made me shrug up my shoulders, and sent me to my cabinet to take the sum deficient from my own funds. With this dowry my poor <protegee> soon found a suitable husband in the person of one of her cousins, for whom I procured a lucrative post under government.
Most tenderly did the aged cripple love her son's protégée, and the wrinkled, sallow face lighted up with a smile of pleasure at her entrance. "I thought it was about time for you to come to me. Sit down, dear, and touch the bell for Kate. How is Harry?" "No stronger, I am afraid. You know this is very bad weather for him."
I would not have mentioned my name at all, only, if his mother and sister delayed their coming, he might feel awkward himself, from not knowing what to call me. "My mother's protégée!" said he, his countenance lightening as he spoke. "Edith has mentioned you in her letters; but I expected to see a little girl, not the young lady, whom I find presiding genius here."
Riding up to her, he found that she who thus fled lonely as the shades of evening fell along the deserted road, was that little girl, his sister's protegee, who should have been safe under the shelter of his own roof. She stood still, breathless and disordered, as he drew up alongside of her. "What has happened? Where is my sister?
He seemed never to get used to her. Naturally he found a seat near her. She was his protégée. "Don't you sing, Miss Quincy?" was his inevitable query. And she replied with inward anguish, "Not at all." "But I'm sure you do. You look like incarnate song," he persisted. "You're playing modest." Lena cast down her eyes and said, "I am a very truthful little girl." "Have you had a good time here?"
However, of late some tardy light had been dawning upon Aldous! The night after Frank's arrival at the Court Betty Macdonald came down to spend a few weeks with Miss Raeburn, being for the moment that lady's particular pet and protégée.
Monte-Cristo was now thoroughly satisfied that Giovanni could effect nothing with Annunziata and that a further prolongation of the interview would only be fraught with additional suffering for both the girl and young Massetti; he, therefore, requested Mme. de Rancogne to take her protégée to her apartment, and when they had quitted the salon said to the Viscount: "We must trust this girl to the lawyers and judges, Giovanni.
He accordingly brought his young protégée to England, with the result I have already attempted to describe. After singing in London and Paris, Patti was engaged to appear at Berlin, Brussels, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, at which latter city enthusiasm reached its climax, when on one occasion she was called before the curtain no fewer than forty times.
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