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Then she looked very anxiously at Rosamond and said, "I hope it didn't happen to you? Since first I read the story Miss Edgeworth told about you and the purple jar, I couldn't get out of my head the dreadful lines with which she begins, 'O teach her while your lessons last To judge the future by the past, The mind to strengthen and anneal While on the stithy glows the steel.
Now I had much rather have the shoes, for I shall not be able to walk all this month; even walking home that little way hurt me exceedingly. Mamma, I will give you the flower-pot back again, and that purple stuff and all, if you'll only give me the shoes." "No, Rosamond; you must abide by your own choice; and now the best thing you can possibly do is to bear your disappointment with good humor."
Everybody else, however, did believe; and their eyes were fixed upon Bell in a manner which made her feel rather ashamed. "What do you all look at me so for? Why do you all look so? And am I to be put to shame on my birthday?" cried she, bursting into a roar of passion; "and all for this nasty thing!" added she, pushing away the remains of the basket, and looking angrily at Rosamond. "Bell! Bell!
"Stephen" Rosamond stood at the edge of the hill below the porch "bring your cigar down here; it's simply perfect. You can lie on your side here among the pine needles and watch the sky." They went around a clump of trees to a spot where the pine needles were thick, just out of sight of the cabin door.
Browning, and involuntarily caressing the curly head, he was about to speak, when Rosamond interrupted him, saying, "I won't deceive you, Mr. Browning, and make you think I'm better than I am. I am sorry I acted so to you, but I don't believe I'm sorry about Mrs. Van Vechten. I don't like her, for she always treats me as though I were not near as good as she, and I can't wait on her any more.
If I remember correctly, Desmond, in a letter to Rosamond, says: 'Inconstancy in a woman, because of the present social conditions, is often pardonable. In a man, nothing is more despicable. I think that is so. I believe that a man should stick by the woman to whom he has given his word as closely as he sticks by his friends." "Ah!" exclaimed the aggressive second voice, "that is all very well.
They greatly admired themselves and each other in these costumes, and Marjorie declared it gave her a trippy feeling just to look at them. They started at ten o'clock. Mrs. Maynard and Kitty sat back with Rosamond between them. Midget and King in the next two seats, and Mr. Maynard in front with the chauffeur.
Here Raymond entered, with the air of a man who had just locked up a heavy post-bag at the last possible moment; and he too was amazed, though he covered it by asking why the party was so small. "Rosamond has gone to meet her husband, and Cecil has her guest in her own domains."
As Lady Bereford, Lady Rosamond Seymour will neither compromise rank, wealth, nor dignity, and will be happy in the love of a fond, devoted husband, and the blessing of a doting father. It is my great love for you, my child, that urges this settlement. I am certain that you will have no hesitation in giving your answer.
She could not turn aside the resistless torrent that marked the course over which she must be borne by the skill of the fearless and merciless pilot, Lady Bereford. In the outward conduct of Lady Rosamond none could detect the spirit which actuated her feelings. Lady Douglas closely watched every movement.
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