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Updated: June 24, 2025
Or did some small boy voortrekker, munching, from the pocket of his blesbuck-skin jacket, dried fruit sent up by some kind tante from the far south, carelessly throw aside a stone which had been accidentally included, and was that the ancestor of those trees which used to afford us so many delightful feasts?
The honey will now taste vinegarish." "You are a flatterer, uncle isn't he, tante?" laughed Yolanda, turning to Aunt Castleman. "I am afraid he is," said the good frau, in mock distress. "Every one tries to spoil him." "You more than any one, tante," cried Yolanda. "Tut, tut, child," cried Frau Katherine, "I abate his vanity with frowns."
Tante was at work in the music-room and was playing the prelude in D flat, a special favourite of Karen's. She lay and listened with a curious, cautious pleasure, like that with which, half awake, one may guide a charming dream, knowing it to be a dream. There was so much waiting to be remembered; so much waiting to be thought.
"I also warn you, Sally, that I intend to watch you and find out your proceedings for myself. In truth, I am frightened about you. If only Tante were here she could influence you, but Aunt Patricia will only become bitterly angry. I confess I don't know what she will say or do when she learns that I have no choice but to tell her."
They were to go and interview the Manager three days from now. They had already meant to go, only the date was undecided; the corroboration of the spirits was required to confirm it. This settled it. Three days from to-night! 'Tu vois! whispered Tante Jeanne, glancing mysteriously across the table at her sister. 'Three days from now! That explains your dream about the three birds.
It may he actin', but if it is, it's plaguy good actin', I tell you. "I'm a thinkin' it tante a rael gentleman that's proud, but only a hop. You've seen a hop grow, hante you? It shoots up in a night, the matter of several inches right out of the ground, as stiff as a poker, straight up and down, with a spick and span new green coat and a red nose, as proud as Lucifer.
It tante much different from stump oratory in America arter all, or speakin' off a whiskey barrel, is it? It's a sort of divil me-kear-kind o' audience; independent critters, that look at a feller full in the face, as sarcy as the divil; as much as to say, 'Talk away, my old 'coon, you won't alter me, I can tell you, it's all Bunkum.
She felt lost among Peggy's many friends; the hours when Peggy was in school dragged a little. The simplicity of the Lees' city home had made her homesick for the big house in Washington Square for its very emptiness! So because of this loneliness she spent hours at the piano eagerly practicing the technic that under Tante had been so tiresome. Mrs.
Well, my dear, so long as this day brings you happiness, the old folk who stay at home have no right to grumble." Then as Crystal made no reply and held her little head resolutely away, Madame said more insistently: "You are happy, Crystal, are you not?" "Of course I am happy, ma tante," replied Crystal quickly, "why should you ask?"
You will be with us this evening? You will get up? You will come to dinner?" She paused at the mantelpiece to adjust her veil, and Karen, in the glass, saw that her eyes were fixed on hers with a certain intentness. "Yes, I will get up this morning, Tante," she said. "I will help Mrs. Talcott with the garden. But dinner? Mrs. Talcott says that she has supper now.
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