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"That's just what we don't want to do here," said Lady Wharton, who did not often join in any of these arguments. "You're wrong, my lady," said her stepson. "You're only breeding idleness when you teach people to think that they are earning wages without working for their money. Whatever you do with 'em let 'em know and feel the truth. It'll be the best in the long run."
He sent me to tell you." Chatty rose to her feet, and the group in the end of the room scattered and crowded to the window. Theo seized his stepson by the collar, half choking the boy. "You confounded imp!" he cried, "what business is that of yours?" "Geoff, where, where?" Chatty rushed to the child and caught his hand.
Ptolemy Ceraunus quitted Egypt in disgust, and fled to the court of Lysimachus; and Arsinoe, the wife of Lysimachus, jealous of her stepson Agathocles, the heir apparent to the throne, and desirous of securing the succession for her own children, conspired with Ptolemy Ceraunus against the life of Agathocles.
The latter was, moreover, preoccupied about her stepson, who, soon after receiving his degree at Harvard, had been rescued from a stormy love-affair, and finally, after some months of troubled drifting, had yielded to his step-mother's counsel and gone up to Oxford for a year of supplementary study. Thither Mrs.
A secret malady under which Phaedra pines has so far baffled the Nurse who now learns that she loves her stepson. She had striven in vain against this passion, only to find like Olivia that Such a potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof. She decided to die rather than disgrace herself and her city Athens.
She in her passion had allowed herself more than once to express a wish that her stepson were dead. She had hardly in truth meant as much as she implied, or meaning it had hardly thought of what she meant. But the chaplain taking the words from her lips, had repeated them till she was almost terrified by their iniquity and horror. He had no darlings to justify him!
The small force, which had made its way into the town, capitulated on honourable terms, and the Spanish governor distinguished himself by the most humane and generous conduct to his enemies. There is no doubt that Nelson's life was saved by the careful attentions of his stepson, Nisbet, who was with him in the boat. Nisbet was immediately promoted, and honours awaited Nelson in England.
He had in past years credited, or discredited, her with "airs." But here she was declaring that Helen was too good for her stepson. If his pride had momentarily suffered, through a misconception, it was now in the full vigour of its strength. "You think we can do nothing?" she said, reflectively, and leant forward on her chair towards him, as if struck by his oracular wisdom. "What can us do?"
"He condemned and discharged my stepson for the sin of another. Now it is his own heart that bleeds." Only a few steps from his own door the broker met a boy about two years older than Herbert, with whom the latter sometimes played. "Harvey," he said, "have you seen Herbert this afternoon?" "Yes, sir; I saw him about three o'clock." "Where?" asked the broker, anxiously.
And Ransford turned and saw Mary Bewery walking there with a tall lad, whom he recognized as one Sackville Bonham, stepson of Mr. Folliot, a wealthy resident of the Close. The two young people were laughing and chatting together with evident great friendliness. "Perhaps," remarked Bryce quietly, "her ideas run in that direction? In which case, Dr. Ransford, you'll have trouble. For Mrs.
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