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"Step-sister to Esther's grandmother. She must be sixty-five where grandmother's a good ten years older." "She sang," said the colonel, forgetting, as he often did, they seemed so young, that everybody in America must at least have heard tradition of Madame Beattie's voice. "She lived abroad." "She had a ripping voice," said Jeff. "When she was young, of course. That wasn't all.
She said to herself: “When an Eleanore dies in the full bloom of youth, one must mourn until the soul of its own accord again grows hungry for life.” At first Eva had tried to play with her little step-sister; but Philippina had chased her from the room. Once she turned against the enraged daughter of Jason Philip Schimmelweis, and said: “I’ll tell my father on you!” “Yes? You’ll tell your father?
He nods. "It might have been her step-sister, Notoriety," says he. "Just what's the difference?" says I. Mr. Robert rubs his chin. "Some old boy whose name I've forgotten, put it very well once," says he. "Let's see, he said that Fame was the perfume distilled from the perfect flowering of a wise and good life; while Notoriety was er " "Check!" says I. "It's what you get when you fry onions, eh?"
But because his handsome, haughty mother had lived in high-bred, self-congratulatory ignorance of what she believed did not concern her, and because he has for a sister, who's a step-sister, a silly, snobby person, he is not justified in withholding from me what he naturally withheld from them. One can be a human being as well as a lady. It's this that is difficult to make him understand.
Laura and her step-sister left the room soon after dinner: and the two men remained alone at the long, ponderous-looking dinner-table, on which the sparkling diamond-cut decanters and Sevres dessert-dishes looked like tiny vases of light and colour on a dreary waste of polished mahogany. "I shall go to Maudesley Abbey to-morrow," Henry Dunbar said.
The girl was delighted and shook the tree. First one apple fell, then another. "That is enough," said Zaré, "hurry home." Thanking the months, she returned joyfully. Helen marvelled and the stepmother wondered at seeing the fruit. "Where did you gather them?" asked the step-sister. "There are more on the mountain top," answered Marouckla.
Then the prince turned to the step-sister and said: 'I will not kill you, but I will leave you here to repent. And he fastened her with a chain to the wall, and put a great bowl in front of her and said, 'I will not see you again till you have filled this bowl with your tears. So saying, he called his beasts, and set out on his travels. When he had gone a little way he came to an inn.
You are at liberty to dispose of your share by will, as you see fit, madam. I am not likely to deny my step-sister what is rightfully hers. And that reminds me. She is not my blood relation, it's true. But she is my step-sister. That settles another point. I could not ask my step-sister to be my wife. The law would "
Freddy, with an air of relief at being reinforced. 'I've been talking to Vida Levering and that funereal sister of hers. 'Oh, Mrs. Fox-Moore! said Lady Whyteleafe, obviously disappointed. 'She's a step-sister, isn't she? 'Yes, yes. Oh, I wish she'd never stepped over my threshold! 'Why? said Mr. Freddy, sticking in his eyeglass. 'Don't, Freddy. Don't look at her. Oh, I wish I were dead!
"Besides, I don't know that it was so very wicked. What makes you think it was?" "Oh, it wasn't that merely. Lyra, may I may I speak to you plainly, frankly like a sister?" Annie's heart filled with tenderness for Lyra, with the wish to help her, to save a person who charmed her so much. "Well, like a step-sister, you may," said Lyra demurely. "It wasn't for her sake alone that I hated to see it.
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