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Updated: May 4, 2025
Look at poor Bobby Surcingle, look at Oliver Semples and Victor Medallion; you could n't have better families. But if you 're sure he does n't drink! Algy 'll laugh, of course; that does n't matter he laughs at everything." Shelton felt guilty; being quite unprepared for so rapid an adoption of his client.
Her husband had a pretentious shoe store on Chestnut Street, near Third, and was planning to open a second one farther out on the same street. The occasion of the meeting was an evening call on the part of the Semples, Mr. Semple being desirous of talking with Henry Cowperwood concerning a new transportation feature which was then entering the world namely, street-cars.
She called it out before them all, and said that I wore Helen's cast-off clothes!" "The mean thing!" said Aunt Alvirah, with more sharpness then she usually expressed. "Isn't that jest like the Semples? They're all that way. Got mad with you because you beat her at spelling; eh?" "Yes. But she has known it right along, of course." "Deary me!" said Aunt Alvirah.
He ate a crust standing, and then went away again to answer a summons that had come since he went out in the morning. "It will be a good opportunity, Bessie, to call on Miss Buff and Miss Wort, and to say a word in passing to the Semples and Mittens; they are always polite in asking after you," Mrs. Carnegie mentioned at the children's dinner.
All this shabby, nondescript furniture, collected from heaven knows where partly inherited from the Semples and the Wiggins and partly bought could be thrown out or sold and something better and more harmonious introduced.
Young Cowperwood did not care very much for her relatives, and the Semples had been alienated by her second, and to them outrageous, marriage. His own family was closely interested by ties of affection and mutual prosperity, but, better than this, he was drawing to himself some really significant personalities.
"Mother has gone on first to warn father," Jack announced; and missing other friends the Musgraves, Mittens, and Semples, to wit she allowed herself to be led in triumph across the road and up the garden-walk, the garden gay as ever with late-blooming roses and as fragrant of mignonette. When she reached the porch she was all trembling.
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