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One thought that she was too much alone; but, of course, her loss was a very recent one, and everybody knows that in grief there often comes a desire for solitude. 'It was sad, therefore, said Mr. Semple, 'that these friends of hers should be leaving her just then. Mrs. Ogilvie would have been all the better for having a few intimates about her.
I'se warrant they'll tak ye in, whether ye be gentle or semple. 'Simple enough, to be wandering here at such a time of night, thought Mannering, who was ignorant of the meaning of the phrase; 'but how shall I get to the PLACE, as you call it? 'Ye maun baud wessel by the end o' the loan, and take tent o' the jaw-hole. 'O, if ye get to eassel and wessel again, I am undone!
In five months he reappeared, and thereafter he was a caller at stated intervals periods of a week or ten days. Again, it would be hard to say what he saw in Semple. Her prettiness, wax-like in its quality, fascinated him; her indifference aroused perhaps his combative soul. He could not have explained why, but he wanted her in an urgent, passionate way.
I often think a maid must know her mistress with even a greater degree of intimacy than many of her friends, and I remember it was a particularly nice Spanish woman whose services she lent me when I was ill. Mr. Semple would like to know if Lady Falconer remembered whether the woman had come out from England with Mrs. Ogilvie. 'I am afraid I cannot, said Lady Falconer. 'But stop! Yes, I can.
David liked his guest less in the morning than he had done at night. "Ye dinna seem to relish your parritch, sir," said David rather grimly. Mr. Semple said he really had never been accustomed to anything but strong tea and hot rolls, with a little kippered salmon or marmalade; he had never tasted porridge before. "More's the pity, my lad.
Singing was indulged in at times, a little dancing on occasion, and there was considerably more "company to dinner," informally, than there had been previously. And here it was, during the first year of the new life in this house, that Frank met a certain Mrs. Semple, who interested him greatly.
Semple, as editor, published the Californian, a small sheet of news, once a week; and it was a curiosity in its line, using two v's for a w, and other combinations of letters, made necessary by want of type. After some time he removed to Yerba Buena with his paper, and it grew up to be the Alta California of today.
"Just the same, Julia says she doesn't like you and that you're a nobody that Jabe Potter has taken you in out of charity. And Julia pretty nearly bosses everything and everybody around this school. Her father, Mr. Semple, you see, is chairman of the school board." Her plain-spoken friend never realized how much she was hurting Ruth by telling her this.
He understood that a company was already formed, that a large amount of stock was to be issued against the prospective franchise, and that these shares were to be sold at five dollars, as against an ultimate par value of one hundred. He wished he had sufficient money to take a large block of them. Meanwhile, Lillian Semple caught and held his interest.
This did not make Julia Semple any more pleasant. She actually looked across at Helen and Tom and scowled at them. It had already begun to be whispered about the room that the match was easily Julia's that she was sure to win; and Mr. Semple, the chairman of the trustees, who sat on the platform with the teacher, looked very well satisfied indeed.
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