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Updated: May 1, 2025
Charming, wholly charming, was this day to Maria, spent in quiet, free from the children, free from the observation of other guests, passed in all external luxury, and in sister-like confidence with the friend to whom she had owed some of the best pleasures of the last year.
"The calm, cold, sister-like affection of a childish undeveloped nature, which knew no passion except for art, and was really so little emancipated from the nursery as to take for serious truth all the old myths of religion such companionship may be very soothing and pleasant when one is lying on one's sofa, and must live by rule, but when one regains the vigour of youth and health "
I could not answer; but I kept my hands clasped over the miniature, that she might not see what they contained. "Will you not answer? Am I not your friend, almost your sister? Come, shall I call mamma?" "Yes yes; go go." "No, I will not go yet. What have you there? What are you hiding?" And innocently, and sister-like, those hands took mine; and so and so the picture became visible!
Gryce in recommending him to my attention. The next day I repeated the experiment, but with no greater success than before. Mr. Clavering came into the room, but, seeing me, did not remain. I began to realize it was no easy matter to make his acquaintance. To atone for my disappointment, I called 011 Mary Leavenworth in the evening. She received me with almost a sister-like familiarity.
On her side, brought so frequently into communication with the young conductor of the journal in which she wrote, Isaura entertained for him a friendly, almost sister-like affection.
I could not answer; but I kept my hands clasped over the miniature, that she might not see what they contained. "Will you not answer? Am I not your friend, almost your sister? Come, shall I call mamma?" "Yes yes; go go." "No, I will not go yet. What have you there? What are you hiding?" And innocently, and sister-like, those hands took mine; and so and so the picture became visible!
As she knew him, she loved him sister-like, and turned to him naturally when she needed a brother's services. And so it was to him that she wrote first, at the end of the short wedding-day journey just to tell him that she and her bridegroom had arrived safely, and that Claud was standing the fatigue much better than they could have hoped.
After mentioning the immense number of letters which he had to answer, and how the trouble of replying was almost beyond his strength, he says, "The sister-like affection of my honoured friend Anna Swanwick has ... again and again won me to London;... but the place seems never to agree with me.
All these pleasures were now ours, for very soon tea and chops were ready for us; and so strangely human, so sister-like did this quiet helpful woman seem after our harsh experiences on that rough rainy day that we congratulated ourselves on our good fortune in having found such a haven, and soon informed her that we wanted no "better place."
She had liked him always; she had felt sister-like from the moment when Hermann brought him to the house, and sister-like she had continued to feel, even when Michael had definitely declared there was "no thoroughfare" there.
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