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Your husband, for instance, is nearly starved." "No, really?" cried the good wife, clasping her hands. "Only fancy, my good husband starving out there, so fond as he was of a good dinner, too!" Then she added, coaxingly, "As you know him so well, perhaps you wouldn't mind doing him the charity of taking him a little somewhat, to give him a treat.
But listen speaking of uncles, what does yours say about Paulita?" Isagani blushed. "He preached me a sermon about the choosing of a wife. I answered him that there wasn't in Manila another like her beautiful, well-bred, an orphan " "Very wealthy, elegant, charming, with no defect other than a ridiculous aunt," added Basilio, at which both smiled.
"Neither can I," joins in William Cox; "if I ever marry I hope my wife will be as good a cook as Olive; if she prove so I shall be satisfied." "Gim me 'nother piece of meat, do you hear," is the exclamation which comes from master Willie. "Ask as a good boy should," remarks Dan, "and you shall have it."
Behind him surged the figure of his wife; just such a woman as you might look to find the mate of such a man: broad and tall of frame and most scurvily cross-grained of face.
And Sasha looked almost with hatred at his young wife, and whispered: "It's you they've come to see! . . . Damn them!" "No, it's you," answered Varya, pale with anger. "They're your relations! they're not mine!" And turning to her visitors, she said with a smile of welcome: "Welcome to the cottage!" The moon came out again. She seemed to smile, as though she were glad she had no relations.
He was the most modest, unobtrusive man in all our town, and yet knew more of his business than all of us put together. "'No, no, I can't allow that, cried the motherly wife. "'Nonsense! replied the old partner. 'However, my dear boy for I really must call you so it was that very thing that made your father's fortune; I mean that he was just as unpretending as he was clever.
"But girls sometimes take strange whims in these matters. Do you ever expect to receive a better offer than Mr. Leigh's?" "As far as fortune is concerned, I presume I never shall have so good an opportunity again. But, Mrs. Murray, I would rather marry a poor man, whom I really loved, and who had to earn his daily bread, than to be Mr. Leigh's wife and own that beautiful house he is building.
The Captain's wife, who lived on board the hulk, had a narrow escape, having to be lowered out of the stern ports. From Hong-Kong over to Mac
Raymond's plan was to get married; sell her property, which might take a few months, more or less; and then sail for England, to introduce his charming wife to a large circle of relatives.
"As the speaker put it, 'Vous avez déclaré la guerre. He then read the whole declaration of war aloud to them both. Bratianu sent word to me that he would have a special train sent to take my wife and daughter and the whole personnel of the Embassy to Bucharest. "Bucharest, September, 1916. "The Roumanians really expected a Zeppelin attack at once.
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