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He then gruffly informed me that the original was his sister, Madame de Saint-Herem, who died some years since. But you would have died laughing had you seen them when I asked if she had left a son." "Well, what did they do?" "At the name of young Saint-Herem you would have thought I had evoked the devil.
He teased my sister to go, but she told him every time she was engaged to some one else." The two days that intervened between the funeral and the auction passed, and the last scene connecting Philip with the little cottage which had been his home was to take place.
I told him I had simply been introduced to him, and he said, 'He is a person whose acquaintance is very undesirable; he is a drunkard and a gambler; he belongs to a good family, but he is their thorn in the flesh, because of his dissolute ways. Perhaps this sounds harsh, even unkind to you, but I am trying to do by you as I would by my own sister if I had one.
She was satisfied that she would not have another one. She was satisfied that he went on being living, that she would not have to have another one. She was satisfied with her mother and her brothers and her sister. They were satisfactory as mother and sister and older brother and younger brother. She had opinion enough about that thing about mentioning there being existing.
"You do not know what an angel she is to the poor round Hale," said Lady Laura; "especially to the children. And she nursed three of mine, Maud, Ethel, and Alick no; Stephen, wasn't it?" she asked, looking at her sister for correction "through the scarlatina. Nothing but her devotion could have pulled them through, my doctor assured me. Let her come with us, Clary." "O, yes, yes!
To the twain she said, that weeping did beseem her and naught else better. Then spake her brother Giselher: "Sister, it hath been told me, and I can well believe it, that King Etzel would make all thy sorrows vanish, and thou takest him to be thy husband. Whatever others may advise, this thinketh me well done.
As to her sister, of course she intended to give Nora a home as long as such a home might be wanted. It would be very sad for Nora, but in existing circumstances such an arrangement would be expedient. She would not go into details as to expense.
"I have never known the love of a mother or sister. It is true what I have told you, whether you believe it or not, that you are the first and only woman I have loved. And I think I have loved you ever since that night, years ago at Monticello, when d'Azay showed me your miniature. I have loved you when you were kind and unkind to me.
"why, then then," and Amy buried her face in the cool, damp roses, and did not dare to look again, "then she had better go and be a Sister of Charity." As the world returned to town and the late autumnal festivities began, the handsome person and self-possessed style of Mr. Abel Newt became the fashion. Invitations showered upon him. Mrs.
"I am sorry to say it," answered the physician "having heard of the interesting occasion on which she had engaged to be one of your guests but, at her age, I must ask for a little more time." "In other words, it is impossible for my sister to be with us, on the day of my son's marriage?" "Quite impossible.