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'An' she's always singin' too, said John thoughtfully; 'if mother didn't scold so it would be real pleasant. 'I'd like to know why it is, though, repeated Leander thoughtfully. 'Because she belongs to the King, said the clear, sweet voice of his step-sister from the doorway, 'and she wants you all to belong to Him too.
"I'll be your step-sister," said Midget, remembering Cinderella. "Not the cross kind." "No, the pleasant kind. All right, we'll be step-sisters, and will you come to see me often?" "Yes, and you must come over to my house." "I will, when mother'll let me. She hates to have me go anywhere." "Do you know," said Midget, in a spirit of contrition, "I thought you were 'stuck-up."
"Then, she is not my half-sister?" he exclaimed, utterly dazed, but aware of the exquisite sensation of relief that was taking hold of him. "She is no blood relation of yours." "But she is, yes, now I understand, she is my step-sister," he said, with a swift fall of spirits. "I suppose that is what you might call her," said Rachel Gwyn, indifferently. "I have not given it much thought."
I don't know whether that's enough to explain it," I commented. "And did your mother's step-sister go abroad with them?" "I believe so. She never came back here afterwards. She has been dead for ages, now. But mother's always rather mysterious about her. That's how I began, wasn't it? I know that she was very beautiful, and sometimes I think I can just remember her.
They had twelve children, and among the names one recognizes such familiar patronymics of the two families as Mark, Stephen, Ruth and Elizabeth. Family tradition has ascribed beauty and patience to this maiden who, doubtless, served well both in her father's large family and in the community. Her step-sister, Damaris, married Jacob Cooke, son of the Pilgrim, Francis Cooke.
My step-sister Isabel a beautiful girl of seventeen, the only child of his first marriage had met him at Plymouth, nursed him to convalescence, and brought him home to Minden Cottage, to the garden which henceforward he tilled, but saw only through memory.
Nessy's loud protest brought Betsy Beauty out of the dining-room, and in a moment my cousin, looking more than ever like a painted doll in her white muslin dress with a large blue bow in her yellow hair, had run upstairs to assist her step-sister. I was now between the two, the one above and the other below, and they laid hold of my bowl to take it from me.
The police commissioner is occupied with your step-sister, whom you were about to murder." Langen put his hand to his cheek, looking at Muller between his lashes as he said, "To murder? Who can prove that?" "We have all the proofs we need." "I will acknowledge only that I wanted Asta to disappear." Muller smiled. "What good would that have done you? You wanted her entire fortune, did you not?
Instead of cooking the dinner nicely and washing Sunday's children as thoroughly as her step-sister had done, she burned them all till they screamed and ran off as though crazed by the burns and the pain. The food she scorched, charred, and let curdle so that no one could eat it, and when Sunday came home from church she covered her eyes and ears in horror at what she found in her house.
"Aunt Luceba," said Isabel suddenly, "was aunt Eliza hard to live with? Did you and aunt Mary Ellen have to toe the mark?" "Don't you say one word," answered her aunt hastily. "That's all past an' gone. There ain't no way of settlin' old scores but buryin' of 'em. She was older'n we were, an' on'y a step-sister, arter all. We must think o' that.
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