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The scarred veteran was afraid of that old spinster. From this had arisen his connection with the cure of Vernon, M. l'Abbe Mabeuf. That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, and the large tears in his eyes.
Tears were falling from Bernardine's eyes and sobs were trembling on the tender lips, she could restrain her feelings no longer, and, catching up the thin, shriveled-up figure of the dear little old spinster in her arms, she strained her to her heart and wept. "Ah, my dear girl. You are the good angel who took me in and cared for me, believing me to be a pauper.
"If Lady Inley's description of her is accurate, I can hardly imagine so." "Vere doesn't know what she's saying." "Then Miss Bassett " "Oh, she does look like that; dried up, unemotional, tame, English, even comic." "The regular spinster, eh?" "She looks it. But, damn it all, Vere has no business to say she has no emotions, to wonder why such people are born.
And in this Quaker spinster you saw one Socialist who was ready to go out that very night and throw herself beneath the hoofs of cavalry, infantry, or artillery, or even of a police automobile. And that was the sentiment of the meeting as a whole. If America entered the European strife, it would be because the Socialist organization had exhausted its means of protest in vain.
Though she had directed all her remarks to Teen, she did not fail at the same time to make the keenest scrutiny of her companion, whose appearance filled the little spinster with wonder. She was certainly a very handsome girl, and there was nothing forward or offensive in her manner nay, rather, she seemed to feel somewhat shy, and kept herself in the background as much as possible.
If it is known positively that some man has offered her his name and his troubles, and there is still no solitaire to be seen, the logical hypothesis is charitably advanced, that she has been "disappointed in love." It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
A middle-aged spinster literally flung herself towards the young man, and, clasping her hands, exclaimed: "Oh! how grateful we are to you! Oh! what a saint! I don't know what prevented us from rushing in and embracing him!" "Cara! My good creature!" said another with the quiet irony of the Venetian, her fine large eyes sparkling. "It was probably because the door was locked, fortunately for him!"
He lived, after his misfortunes, in a comparatively small house with his two daughters, Mrs Ebag and Miss Ebag. These two ladies are the heroines of the tale. Mrs Ebag had married her cousin, who had died. She possessed about six hundred a year of her own. She was two years older than her sister, Miss Ebag, a spinster. Miss Ebag was two years younger than Mrs Ebag.
He was a bachelor, she a spinster; she had money, and he position. What wonder, then, if the Islanders expected them to make a match of it?
There, in a big bare office, he ran over a card index. "Here we are," he said. "Roger Mifflin; age, 41; face, oval; complexion, florid; hair, red but not much of it; height, 64 inches; weight, stripped, 120; birthmark...." "Never mind," I said. "That's the man. What's he here for?" "He's held in default of bail, pending trial. The charge is attempt to defraud one Helen McGill, spinster, age..."
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