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As soon as he heard that Bourbon was a widower, he gave instructions to Philibert Naturelli, his ambassador in France, who said, "Sir, you are now in a position to marry, and the emperor, my master, who is very fond of you, has a sister touching whom I have orders to speak to you if you will be pleased to hearken."
Before he entirely recovered from the check he lost his father, who died suddenly of cholera in 1832. The shock left him sobered and calm, anxious to fulfil his duties toward his mother and young sister, whose means, it was feared, would be greatly diminished by the loss of M. de Musset's salary.
But Sister Petronille could only manage to expectorate the commencement of the thing, which kept her puffing without the remainder making up its mind to follow.
But yet, all the while, he rather fretted under Amos's rigid consistency, remarking to his sister that really it was a bit of a bondage to have to be always so very good, and that one must not be so over-particular if one was to get on with people who were not yet exactly angels.
"Ah!" cried the major, shaking his head, "that cold word propriety will kill him; he must be fostered, cherished, soothed." "These are offices for a sister or a wife." "A sister!" repeated the soldier, the blood rushing to his own face tumultuously; "a sister! He has a sister; and one that might be here with to-morrow's sun."
"And yet," he said, "I don't think of you as I fancy a man would think of his mother, or even of his sister. It is rather extraordinary. It has become clear to me that you have obtained a unique place in my thought in my regard. Well, good-night." She looked up at him, without, however, quite meeting his eyes. "Oh! Do you think you must go?" "Well yes. I have said everything that I came to say.
Vell, as I was agoin' to say w'en " "Excuse me once more what is your name?" said I. "Hain't got no name." "No name! Come, you are joking. What is your father's name?" "Hain't got no father never 'ad, as I knows on, nor mother neither, nor brother, nor sister, nor aunt, nor wife not even a mother-in-law.
That's the reason why I want you to let me come down and be a big sister to you. Will you?" "Of course. You know I will," I returned. "But won't Dicky resent " "Dicky won't dream what I'm doing," she retorted tartly, "and when he does wake up I'll take care of him." Always the note of domination of Dicky!
"You frighten my sister," said the boy: "do pray tell her what you mean at once, for look how pale she turns!" "So much the better, for now I have good hope of her. Then to tell you all at once no matter how I frighten her, it's for her good this Mrs. Carver, as you call her, is only Mrs. Carver when she wants to pass upon such as you for a good woman."
At least it was a starter, he said, and would lead to divorces later on, and from there I might be promoted to graft. He talked to Sue and my father about it, persuading them both to take his side. Day by day the pressure increased. I set my young jaw doggedly and kept on writing about my roots. "Look here," said Joe one evening. "Your sister tells me you're sore on the harbor.
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