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There's Clemmy, she's only two years older nor me, and don't know half that I do, and yet she kin lie about all day, and hasn't to get up to breakfast. And Phemie, who's jest the same age, size, and weight as me, maw and paw lets her do everything she wants to. And so does everybody. And so would you." "But you surely don't want to be like a girl?" said Grant, smiling.
"When Clemmy wants painting and stuffing, it will be time enough for her to think about getting one of your 'Ach Himmels' or 'Mon Dieus'." "I like the girl myself immensely," agreed Clementina's mother. "You can trust her, and she doesn't give herself airs." Her praises reached even the countess, suffering severely at the moment from the tyranny of an elderly Fraulein.
"It will be a long time before they will ever wish to rival us in that game which Miss Clemmy is now forming on the lawn, and in which England has recently acquired a European reputation." "I don't take you. What game?" "Puss in the Corner. With your leave I will look out and see whether it be a winning game for puss in the long-run."
Whedell proceeded to the apartment where his son-in-law was shut up, and found that individual in a deep fit of meditation. "Thinking and so soon after marriage?" said Mr. Whedell, with a charming smile. "Oh, yes; and I was thinking how much happier is a married man than a bachelor." "You will always think so, I am sure, with my dear Clemmy as your wife. My dear Clemmy!
"The promptness of that reply shows that he does not expect a fortune with Clemmy," thought Mr. Whedell. "He must suspect perhaps already knows the truth," thought Chiffield. "How kind in him to spare me the least humiliation!" "That person is truly rich," continued Mr. Whedell, "rich beyond expression, who brings pure love and exalted virtues into the married state."
Lily lifted up her head with a bewitching stateliness, and added gravely, "I was offended." "Mrs. Braefield is very kind," said Mrs. Cameron; "she asks us to dine the day after to-morrow. You would like to go, Lily?" "All grown-up people, I suppose? No, thank you, dear aunt. You go alone, I would rather stay at home. May I have little Clemmy to play with?
That they are all upside down at Ormsby Villa, all mad entirely fighting and setting off through the kingdom, every one their own way; and, they say, it's all on account of something that Miss Clemmy Ormsby told, that Lady Geraldine said about my Lord O'Toole's being no better than a cat's paw, or something that way, which made his lordship quite mad; and he said, in the presence of Captain Andrews, and my Lady Kildangan, and Lady Geraldine, and all that were in it, something that vexed Lady Geraldine, which made Mr.
However he would sound Clementina without betraying himself. He was anticipated by a slight step in the passage and the pushing open of his study door. The tall, graceful figure of the girl herself stood in the opening. "They tell me Mr. Grant has been here. Does he stay to dinner?" "No, he has an engagement at the hotel, but he will probably drop in later. Come in, Clemmy, I want to talk to you.
"Miss Burrows!" sighed Clemmy, very scornfully. But Kenelm's attention was distracted from Clemmy's locket to a little ring which Lily had been persuaded by Mrs. Somers to try on, and which she now drew off and returned with a shake of the head. Mrs.
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