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Updated: May 27, 2025
First: What you have told me of the attendances of Dirk van Goorl, your stepfather, and others of his household, namely, Red Martin and your half-brother Foy, at the tabernacle of your enemy, the wizard Arentz, is true, is it not?" "Yes," answered Adrian, "but I do not see what that has to do with the matter." "Silence!" thundered the Master.
It was then that the stepfather declared with calm finality that there were no accounts to render and no property to inherit. The whole fortune was his very own. He was very good-natured about the young man's misapprehension of the true state of affairs, but of course felt obliged to maintain his position firmly.
Miss Halliday pursed-up her lips and offered her stepfather one of those kisses which she had of late been prompted to bestow on him out of the gratitude of a heart overflowing with girlish joy. He took the kiss as he might have taken a dose of medicine, but did not grant the request preferred by it.
Honor's stepfather had taken great care to have the real facts in Jimsy's case printed he sent the clipping from the Los Angeles paper and he had spent an evening with James King, setting forth the truth of the case.
Manning," he said, "if you are at leisure, I should like to speak with you a few minutes." "Proceed," said his stepfather, waving his hand. "But a week remains of the school term. Did you propose that I should return there at the end of the vacation?" "Humph! I had not thought much on the subject."
Edwin Clayhanger, duly passing on to the next generation the benevolent Midland gibe which he had inherited, wrote: "DEAR GEORGE, It's better than a bat in the eye with a burnt stick. Yours affectionately, NUNKS" As a boy George had at one period called his stepfather 'Nunks, but he had not used the appellation for years. He was touched now.
Their stepfather admits them to his presence. They kneel at his feet and appeal to him to continue to be the good, kind father he has ever been, and to receive their mother back to his affections. It is all over now with Napoleon. He is never proof against tears, so sends for their mother, who falls into his arms and faints.
Immediately there was bustling and saddling, and a troop of horse issued over the drawbridge to greet the coming guest. Foremost amongst them was the grim stepfather, and by his side rode Etienne. Imagine their surprise when they recognised Wilfred in the train of their visitor; we can hardly paint fitly the scornful looks of Etienne, or the grimness of the stepfather.
She then told me that one day in the previous week a stranger, coming ostensibly from one of their friends in London, had asked to see my stepfather. He was ushered into the hall, and into her presence, and she guessed at once by the extraordinary agitation which M. Termonde displayed that the man was Edmond.
For a wild moment she had an impulse to denounce Buckheath and her stepfather. But almost instantly she realized that she would weaken her cause and lose all chance of assistance by doing so. Her standing in the mill was excellent, and as she ran up the stairs she was going over in her mind the persons to whom she might take her story. She found no one from whom she dared expect credence and help.
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