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There is something so shocking in a child's being taken away from his parents and natural home! I never could comprehend how Mr. Weston could part with him. To give up one's child! I really never could think well of any body who proposed such a thing to any body else." "Nobody ever did think well of the Churchills, I fancy," observed Mr. John Knightley coolly. "But you need not imagine Mr.
"The Churchills," said Uncle Edward, "have never in their marriages set vulgar store by money. Blood we ask, of course, and honourable position, and the right way of thinking. Individually I am a stickler for mind. To his wealth and to his name and his great personal advantages Ludwell Cary adds intellect. He may become a power in his country and his time. You would so aid him, child!
"And the Churchills are mighty fine people. Here's the partridge back, with another freckle-face." "That's Tom Mocket," said Lewis. "If Vinie's a partridge, Tom's a weasel." The weasel, sandy-haired and freckled, came up the path with long steps. "Hi, Lewis! Father's gone toward the market looking for your father.
This explanation agrees with the expressions of Seneca and St Jerome. Churchills Collection, V. 591. All that has been attempted in the present article is to soften the asperity of the language, and to illustrate the text by a few notes where these seemed necessary. Trapobana, or rather Taprobana, is assuredly Ceylon, not Sumatra.
"Lucy," he said, "are you not going to tell me anything? I know you have got the letter, but you won't look at me, or speak a word." "Oh, Jock, how silly! why shouldn't I look at you? but I have so many things to do, and baby I am sure I heard baby cry." "He is no more crying than I am. I saw him, and he was as jolly as possible. I want awfully to know about the Churchills, and what MTutor says."
"I've had full proof of Charlotte's ability to cook and to manage a house," Doctor Churchill had said, when they talked it over, "and I want her free this first year, anyway, to work with her brush and pencil all she likes, and to go about with me all I like." Mrs. Fields, although a product of New England, had spent nearly half her life in Virginia, in the service of the Churchills.
Many, of course, she knew; only a difference of opinion stood between them and the Churchills; but others were strangers to her strangers and curious. She felt it in the touch of their hands, in the stare of their eyes, and her heart was vaguely troubled. She saw her old dancing master, tiptoeing on the edge of the throng, and her smile brought Mr.
He cannot want money he cannot want leisure. We know, on the contrary, that he has so much of both, that he is glad to get rid of them at the idlest haunts in the kingdom. We hear of him for ever at some watering-place or other. A little while ago, he was at Weymouth. This proves that he can leave the Churchills." "Yes, sometimes he can."
The wedding was one to draw the curious, the resolutely Republican, the kindred and friends of Jefferson, who, it was known, had sent the bride a valuable present and a long letter, the interested in Rand, the inimical, for party and other reasons, to the Churchills and the Carys. The county knew that Miss Churchill might have had Greenwood.
She rewarded the services of Lady Marlborough with a pension of a thousand a year; but this was in all probability a very small part of what the Churchills gained by the arrangement. After these transactions the two royal sisters continued during many months to live on terms of civility and even of apparent friendship.
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