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You know the straightlaced, old-fashioned ways of that assembly...." "But most of them are poets and dramatic writers," replied Esperance. "Why should my father care to belong to the Academy at all?" As Genevieve rebuked her, her eyes filled with tears. "You see, Genevieve, I am becoming ungrateful.
What they were doing might be considered exceedingly out of place by a few straightlaced persons, but boys and girls will have their fun, even if it must sometimes be at the expense of other people. Certainly Miss Leece was the most unpopular teacher ever employed in the High School as far back as memory could reach. She was cruel, strict and sharp-tongued.
"You're a very unkind, vindictive old woman," said Lucy. "Belike I am," Mrs. Berry was proud to agree. We like a new character, now and then. Berry had delayed too long. Were it not notorious that the straightlaced prudish dare not listen to, the natural chaste, certain things Mrs.
I never saw such a stiff, silent fellow; he looks as if he had swallowed all his straightlaced Puritan ancestors. I wish he'd exchange. 'Gently, Archie 'O, yes, without doubt; certainly, and amen! I know you like him, Aunt Sarah, said my handsome boy-soldier, laughing. The lessons went on.
It is only the spirit of giving that counts, and the very poor give without any self-consciousness. But I fear that I am dealing with generalities again. The education of children in my early days may have been straightlaced, yet I have always been thankful that the custom was quite general to teach young people to give systematically of money that they themselves had earned.
One of Jacqueline's first walks, after she had recovered, was to see her cousin Giselle at her convent. She did not seek this friend's society when she was happy and in a humor for amusement, for she thought her a little straightlaced, or, as she said, too like a nun; but nobody could condole or sympathize with a friend in trouble like Giselle.
"You're a very unkind, vindictive old woman," said Lucy. "Belike I am," Mrs. Berry was proud to agree. We like a new character, now and then. Berry had delayed too long. Were it not notorious that the straightlaced prudish dare not listen to, the natural chaste, certain things Mrs.
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