Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 17, 2025
But they weren't the sort of people who ever do go such journeys. And the minister wrote to the American Consul in Algiers for me, but the only answer was that Cassim ben Halim had disappeared. It seemed not even to be known that he had an American wife." "Your stepmother ought to have gone herself," said Stephen. "Oh ought! I very seldom saw my stepmother after she married Mr. Potter.
The stepmother had, for a sum that meant a great deal to her, relinquished all claim upon Dick, so he was placed in the care of a sewing woman, who, by reason of rheumatism in her fingers, could not sew any more; and she filled the starving sore spot in her childless heart with a loving devotion to Dick.
Some rollicking lambs were skipping near a dignified group of ewes, that looked on with half-fearful, half-disapproving faces. At the pump he saw his stepmother filling a water bucket, and he took it from her hands. "I reckon it is too heavy for you to carry," he said timidly. "'Tain't much to tote," returned Marthy Burr opposingly.
That fall her father re-married, as did the mother later, who lived in her new home but a few months, dying that same winter. From the first, Wanda had hated her stepmother. "I despise her. I can never trust Father again. I can never trust any one and I loathe home, and I want to die. Please, Doctor, don't make me live. I have nothing to live for!"
Husband and wife smiled a little at each other, and then Reuben said: "Thou, wilt have a stepmother soon, little wife. How wilt thou like that?" "Well enow, so it be Dinah," answered Gertrude, smiling; "but there is the father coming in. Prithee, let me run to him and hear his news!"
Good Lord! the parts one woman is supposed to be fit for, while the man remains his stolid, stupid self. Talk of the variety stage! Or is it that they all want the same thing of her? "Talking of the variety stage, there would have been the danger, too, of my thirsting for it, even with a Dowager Lady for a stepmother. The nostalgia of the boards is a disease your love might not have warded off.
"I had no idea of it," replied Piers, whom the news had in 'some degree excited. "Apropos, why don't you live with father? Couldn't you read as well down there?" "Not quite, I think, and the truth is, the stepmother doesn't much like me. She's rather difficult to get on with you know." "I imagined it. So you're just in lodgings?" "I am with some people called Hannaford.
All I meant was that home isn't a comfortable place for me and I won't go back there if I can help it only I am afraid I can't. That's the trouble I wanted to talk to you about." "I thought you liked the new stepmother," he said. "Hasn't she turned out well? What am I supposed to call her, anyhow? I wanted to find out about that before I was right up against it." "Call her?"
After my experience of foreign society, I was incapable of understanding the extraordinary importance which my stepmother seemed to attach to rank and riches, entirely for their own sakes. When she described my unknown neighbors, from one end of the county to the other, she took it for granted that I must be interested in them on account of their titles and their fortunes.
He ran along the passage holding out his hand to his sister, but Cecile drew back. She came out more into the light and looked straight up into the tall doctor's face: "Is my stepmother going to be ill very long, Dr. Austin?" "No, my dear; I don't expect her illness will last much longer." "Oh, then, she'll be quite well to-morrow."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking