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And my sister has been becoming less so longer than you have. I assure you that's all I meant. She's less so even than I am." "Then," said Anna-Rose, glancing at that part of Mr. Twist's head where it appeared to be coming through his hair, "she must have got to the stage when one is called a maiden lady."
Twist's voice as it reached her passing ears, told Edith that intimately as she knew her brother she had never known him as busy as that before. Edith said nothing, but continued quickly up the stairs. They found they each had a bedroom, with a door between, and that each bedroom had a bathroom of its own, which filled them with admiration and pleasure.
These articles hadn't appeared so very long ago, and the impression survived and was general that Mr. Twist's antecedents were unimpeachable. If it were true that the house was for his mother and she was shortly arriving, then, although still very odd and unintelligible, it was probable that his being there now with the two Germans was after all capable of explanation.
Her pride collapsed, and she tumbled against Mr. Twist's arm and just sobbed. If ever a man felt like a mother it was Mr. Twist at that moment. He promptly sat her down on the grass. "There now there, there now," he said, whipping out his handkerchief and anxiously mopping up her face. "This is what I did on the St.
Twist drooped again, and pulled the departed Twist out of the decent forgetfulness of the past, and he once more came to dinner in the form of his favourite dishes, and assisted in the family conversations by means of copious quotations from his alleged utterances. Mr. Twist's income was anything between sixty and seventy thousand pounds a year by the time the war broke out.
Twist's opinion, had behaved shamefully already, he wouldn't have had the heart to press them to go; and then what would he have done with them? Their second and last line of defence, supposing they had considered the Sacks had failed and were to be ruled out, was in California, a place they spoke of as if it were next door to Boston and New York.
Why hadn't that white-haired gasbag, Mrs. Bilton Mr. Twist's thoughts were sometimes unjust joined them sooner? Why had that shirker Dellogg died? He got his bootlaces hopelessly into knots. "I'd like to start right in getting the rooms fixed up, Mr. Twist," said the manager pleasantly. "Mrs. Hart of Boston is very " "See here," said Mr.
"My dear sir, they're not going to," said the lawyer. "They're proposing, among other little plans for conveying the general sentiment to your notice, to boycott the teapot. It is to be put on an unofficial black list. It is to be banished from the hotels." Mr. Twist's stare became frozen. The teapot boycotted?
Twist's attention from her by saying with gentleness, "But why add to the general discomfort by being bitter?" "Bitter!" cried Mr. Twist, still glaring at Anna-Rose. "Do you dispute that God made us?" inquired Anna-Felicitas, placing herself as it were like a shield between Mr. Twist's wrathful concentration on Christopher and that unfortunate young person's emotion. "See here," said Mr.
These breakfast interludes had not lost piquancy in all these months. "I'm half a mind to go to this thing. I would, if it didn't break up my day so." "As for instance?" "Well, this morning I have to go up to the riding-school to see a horse Storm; I want to try him. And then I have to go down to Twist's and see a lot of Japanese drawings he's got over.
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