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And outwit my sister Louisa in diplomacy vide our poor, dear Dickie Calmady's broken engagement, and the excellent, scatter-brain Decies' marriage." "But Lady Constance is happy?" Honoria put in hastily. "Blissful, positively blissful, and with twins too! Think of it! Decies is blissful also.
Kitty was very triumphant in those days, but a little drop of mortification was in store for her. She was exhibiting all her pretty things one day to a friend, whose congratulations found their climax in the following statement: "Really, Kitty, a most beautiful wardrobe! and such an extraordinary piece of luck for such a little scatter-brain as you! Why, they do say that Mr.
If his own boy, Pat, took it into his head to go off on some scatter-brain prank when he came of age, it would be a big trouble, or if later on he came a cropper in business Jack waited for a convenient pause, and then deftly turned the conversation to politics, and by the time that cheese was on the table, he and his father-in-law were discussing the mysteries of the last Education Bill with the satisfaction of men who hold similar views on the inanities of the opposite party.
Especially where his own family was concerned, Mr. Wylder was not the most delicate of men! he opened the letter, and in it found what he called a rigmarole of poetry and theology! "Confound the fellow!" he said to himself. Lady Ann did well to warn him! There should be no more of this! The scatter-brain took after her mother! He would give it her hot!
"I admit it, general. I was showing him my order to be here on the 16th Brumaire." "Did I write the 16th or the 17th?" "Oh! the 16th, general. The 17th would have been too late." "Why too late?" "Why, hang it, Bourrienne says there are to be great doings here on the 18th." "Capital," muttered Bourrienne; "the scatter-brain will earn me a wigging." "Ah!
The screens in the hall of the Muses had to go a week ago, and with them the young scatter-brain who set himself against my curls with so much energy that I was on the point of sacrificing them " "Without them you would no longer be Balbilla," cried Verus eagerly.
Tomorrow, when I leave the house, I know I shall want to run up and kiss you as you lie asleep, but I mustn't do that the little druggeted stairs to your room would be like the road to another but not a better place, which is also paved with good intentions. What a scatter-brain I am! My heart is breaking, too, with all this severing of my poor little riven cords. "Glory."
She was kind to her nephews and nieces in a domineering sort of way, and had always a soft place in her heart for Anthony, though she regarded him as more or less of a scatter-brain. When she was nearly eighty she commanded his little girls to visit her. Jan was then fourteen and Fay eleven. She liked them because they had good manners and were neither of them in the least afraid of her.
"Nell talks so much nonsense," she said, "that I scarcely know what to think of her speeches sometimes." And then seeing Reine's eyes full of tears, she added kindly: "Dear child, is there any grain of truth in what this wild little scatter-brain has said?" Reine burst into tears. "Don't mind me, Mrs. Enderby, please; I have been awake all night, and I don't feel like myself.
The screens in the hall of the Muses had to go a week ago, and with them the young scatter-brain who set himself against my curls with so much energy that I was on the point of sacrificing them " "Without them you would no longer be Balbilla," cried Verus eagerly.
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