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"Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash?" queried Aunt Jamesina. "Oh, yes. I think we have, Aunty," protested Anne. "We've learned the truth of what Professor Woodleigh told us last Philomathic," said Phil. "He said, 'Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence.
"I shall have to fall back on another Professor Woodleigh quotation to express what it has done for me," said Priscilla.
Just before I came here I had a real good run my uncle's groom had one horse, I had the other; it was over the downs. I won." She rests her chin upon her hands. Lady Rylton's face pales with horror. A race with a groom! "Your uncle must give you good mounts," says Mr. Woodleigh. "It is all he does give me," says the girl, with a pout. "Yes; I may ride, but that is all.
"Because 'God beholdeth mischief and spite to requite it. And after all, these Levys are only trying to win public respect and that by perfectly honorable means. True they are pushing, but no one can push Yorkshire men and women beyond their own opinions and their own interests. In the meantime, they are helpful to the town." "Mrs. Swale, of Woodleigh, told me she had heard that Mrs.
"Yes yes; she is very charming," says Lady Rylton, as she hurries Lady Eshurst down the steps that lead to the path below. Good heavens! If she should hear some of Uncle Joe's funny stories! She takes Lady Eshurst visibly in tow, and walks her out of hearing. "What a good seat you must have!" says Mr. Woodleigh presently, who has been dwelling on what Tita has said about her riding.
"You needn't be anything of that sort, Harry. He is a big landowner now and a senator and a millionaire. So save thy pity for someone that needs it. As I was saying, he offered to sell his mill to thy father and thy father snapped at the offer, and it was settled there and then as they stood in Woodleigh meadows." "What did father pay for it?" asked Harry. "Nay, my dear, I cannot tell thee.
Your grandfather was then growing poor and poorer every year, and with a heavy heart he was think, think, thinking of some plan to save the dear old home. "One morning your father was walking round the Woodleigh meadows, for he thought if we sold them, and the Woodleigh house, we might put off further trouble for a while and give Good Fortune time to turn round and find a way to help us.
"No, no; leave it in the singular," says Maurice, making her a little gesture of self-depreciation. "You seem very active," says Margaret kindly. "I watched you at golf yesterday. You liked it?" "Yes; there is so little else to like," says Tita, looking at her, "except my horses and my dogs." "A horse is the best companion of all," says Mr. Woodleigh, his eyes bent on her charming little face.
Blake, the university man whom father considered so far in advance of any classical master Miss Burridge could afford, he was induced so long as he was staying at Woodleigh to bring on May with her Latin and Greek." "So far so good," said Mrs. Millar, in her excitement borrowing one of her husband's brisk, cut and dry phrases.
If I knew any girls I never do know them, as a rule I should beg of them not to play tennis; it is destruction so far as feet go." "Fancy riding so much as that!" says Mr. Woodleigh, who, with Sir Maurice and the others, has been listening to Tita's stories of hunts and rides gone and done. "Why, how long have you been hunting?" "Ever since I was thirteen," says Tita.
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