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Leadbitter, fatherly and prosy; a paper read by the Branch Secretary, about affairs in general; and a very amusing speech by Miss Mohun, full of anecdotes of example and warning. 'You know, she said, 'all the school story-books end when the grown up books marry their people with the good girl going out to service under her young lady, and there she lives happy ever after!
"The dear boy was always fond of story-books" I went on, like as if I was talking to myself. "I am sure this house his own home might write a story or two for his reading one day or another." The Major's shoulders gave a dip and a curve and his head came up in his shirt-collar. The Major's head came up in his shirt-collar as I hadn't seen it come up since Jemmy went to school.
"That’s the kind of book for me," continued Mrs. Yellett, vigorously swishing about in the soapy water. "Story-books don’t count none with me these days. It’s my opinion that things are snarled up a whole lot too much in real life without pestering over the anguish of print folks.
There is a most expansive view of the Taunus Range, and very little underneath the feet. In the forester's hut lived a little boy named Hugo. He was the son of the forester, a fine little fellow of nearly six years. Hugo had few story-books; but he did not need them; for he lived in the forest, and the forest tells its own tales to the children who live there.
"I know, for I have studied your face a great deal; in the story-books I generally notice that the geniuses have the same kind of face that you have they generally have a little discontented, surprised look about them. I admire the expression very much myself, and sometimes when I'm alone for you know you and Primrose have to leave me a good deal alone I try to practice it before the glass.
"It's Bracebridge; his Christian name is let me see, I heard it, I know it's one of your fancy romantic mamma's pet-boy names just what young ladies put in little children's story-books. Oh, I have it now Ernest Ernest Bracebridge." "I don't see that that is so very much out of the way either," observed Bouldon; "I've known two or three Ernests who were not bad sorts of fellows.
Laudersdale, my dear, is exceptional." Katy opened her eyes, as if she had been told that the object of her adoration was Japanese. "It is the last grain that completes the transformation, as your story-books have told; and one day you will see her stand, a statue of sugar, and melt away in the sun. To be sure, the whole air will be sweetened, but there will be no Mrs. Laudersdale."
It is a noticeable feature about villains that they almost always overreach themselves at some point or other in story-books they always do and to this characteristic De la Zouch proved no exception, for the very intensity of the words he chose, and the excessive flattery he employed, instead of gaining their object, aroused in John Manners' mind a feeling of suspicion of which he could in nowise dispossess himself.
"Yes," said Miss Fosbrook; "but I believe, in cases like this, there is often great fear, and then very speedy improvement." "Oh dear," said Bessie, speaking for the first time, "I know it will be. Little girls in story-books always do have their mammas die!"
Somehow or other, he felt that he had failed in the trust his aunt had placed in him; but then, Mrs. Kynaston had been very kind and very peremptory; she had almost taken the letter out of his hand, and she had smiled and looked quite like a fairy princess out of one of Minnie's story-books in her pretty blue silk dress and shining locket and then, peaches were so very nice!
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