United States or Christmas Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
She added that "Gussie" thought it was a pity to trouble me, and wanted to do the overseeing herself, but that she Aunt Lucy preferred to have a man at the head of affairs. I had never seen my step-cousin, Augusta Ashley, but I knew, from Aunt Lucy's remarks concerning her, pretty much what sort of person she was just the precise kind I disliked immeasurably.
But neither gingerbread nor cider was a specific to that end: Polly talked while she ate, and ate while she talked. But while she finishes her luncheon, let us make known to the patient reader whom and what the tailoress discusses. John Boynton was a step-cousin of Lizzy Griswold's.
Savoring my claret, I glanced askance at my neighbors; on my left sat my cousin Dorothy Varick, frankly absorbed in a roasted pigeon, yet wielding knife and fork with much grace and address; on my right Magdalen Brant, step-cousin to Sir John, a lovely, soft-voiced girl, with velvety eyes and the faintest dusky tint, which showed the Indian blood through the carmine in her fresh, curved cheeks.
"It isn't exactly mourning," she would say; "but it's the only stitch of black poor Julia had and of course George was only my mother's step-cousin." As she came forward Mrs. Lidcote found herself humorously wondering whether she were mourning Horace Pursh's divorce in one of his mother's old black satins. "Oh, did you mean to go down for tea?" Susy Suffern peered at her, a little fluttered.
Only them few an' so late in the season, too. Why, there's Cousin Si Martin, an' his wife, an' their eight children, some of the children bein' married an' havin' other children, an' Sister-in-law Fanny Wood with her invalid husband, her second husband, that is, an' Rebecca's Uncle James's third wife with her two daughters, an' Rebecca's sister's second husband with his new wife an' their little boy, an' Uncle Jason an' his stepson, the one that has fits, an' Cousin Sally Simmons an' her daughter, an' the four little Riley children an' their Aunt Lucretia, an' Step-cousin Betsey Skiles with her two nieces, though I misdoubt their comin' this year.
He said that he would ask her. "Don't seem too anxious," said I, airily. "And don't tell her you want her to be better acquainted with your cousin and step-cousin. Just remark that it will be a jolly excursion, eh? And you might add that Brederode and I particularly I are awfully keen on seeing her." "Very well, I will give that message," said he.
'Claude is my cousin, at least step-cousin, but we are very intimate; there can be no harm in writing to him. 'No, of course not: but if people misconstrue your correspondence? 'I cannot help that, rather despondently; 'and I do not see that it matters now; but still I will tell you, Ursula. Claude is in love with Lady Betty. 'With Lady Betty? 'Yes, and Giles does not know.
"Gad! that's funny!" exclaimed Brook. "Some connection, I dare say. Then we are connected too, you and I, not much though, when one thinks of it. Step-cousin by marriage, and ever so many degrees removed, too." "You can't call that a connection," said Clare with a little laugh, but her face was thoughtful.
Miss Hurd was seated near the window, talking to two young men who seemed on terms of informality in the house. "Shall we have tea?" she asked, when her step-cousin had seated himself. "By all means but I hope you don't mean it literally," replied Wilkinson, promptly. "Tea, by all means, if necessary to preserve the conventionalities, but especially anything and everything else you like."
It happened that his step-cousin was what is kindly called a nice girl, but Wilkinson's regard passed hurriedly across any pleasing personal qualities she might have possessed.
Word Of The Day