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Updated: May 9, 2025
He and John Johnston, his stepmother's son, and John Hanks, a relative of his own mother's, worked barefoot together in the fields, grubbing, plowing, hoeing, gathering and shucking corn, and taking part, when occasion offered, in the practical jokes and athletic exercises that enlivened the hard work of the pioneers. For both work and play Abraham had one great advantage.
Mere mention of their stepmother's name was enough for Rosa and Esteban; they scuttled away as fast as they could go, and when Dona Isabel came to their rooms, a few moments later, she found them in their beds, with their eyes deceitfully squeezed shut. Evangelina was cowering in a corner.
But Jacqueline had not waited for her stepmother's permission; she let herself be borne off radiant on the arm of the important personage who had come for her, while Colette, who perhaps had remarked the substitution for her two roses, whispered in Fred's ear, in atone of great significance "Monsieur de Cymier."
Her hands clutched, in a deathlike grip, a cotton umbrella and a small, covered basket. Eugenia hesitated for a single instant, and then took a step forward with outstretched hand, a kindly glow in her face; but as she did so the crowd parted and Nicholas Burr reached his stepmother's side.
Leaving all these out of consideration, and depending almost wholly upon the fragments she received concerning life in the parsonage at Enderby, a brief letter once in three or four weeks was the utmost the girl could compass. Immediately upon receipt of her stepmother's letter, she determined to ask Miss Pritchard if she might invite her friend Elsie Moss to come on for a week or a fortnight.
"I think you could finish the dress without me getting in the dressmaker again she's that run after she makes a regular favour of coming." "Very well," said Cecilia who would, at the moment, have agreed to sew anything or everything that might hasten her stepmother's journey. "When do you go?" "The day after to-morrow.
He beheld Eugenia's womanhood as "A sword afar off"; but with him was the eternal commonplace his stepmother's sharp, pained eyes and shrivelled hands. He had loved Eugenia until there was nothing left; now he wanted to be loved, if by a dog. He raised his head and smiled upon the bronze Washington and the sad-coloured sky.
We got on very well in the opening, but at the episode of Cupid's pining, my stepmother's needles began nervously to clash, and when we launched on the description of Leander's person, she interrupted me by saying, rather sharply, 'Give me that book, please, I should like to read the rest to myself. I resigned the reading in amazement, and was stupefied to see her take the volume, shut it with a snap and hide it under her needlework.
My stepmother's gone to Darby Skinadre, the meal-monger's." "I'm goin' there." "An' if you see her," replied the other, "you'll know her; a score on her cheek ha, ha, ha; an' when you see it, maybe you'll thank God that I am not your step-daughter." "Isn't there a family named Sullivan that lives not far from Skinadre's?"
Oh, Froggy, isn't it wonderful to think of that he should have come at last like this? It is almost as if as if my love had drawn him." Priscilla's reply to her stepmother's summons, written several days later, was a highly unsatisfactory epistle indeed, in the opinion of its recipient. She found it quite impossible to tear herself away from the country while the fine weather lasted, she wrote.
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