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And then it always makes its own place, you see. When it comes, you will think you always wanted it!" She smiled in her large human way, as if she had tested the trials of life and found that all held some sweet. Isabelle looked down at her thin arms. The Johnstons had four, and they were so poor! As if divining her thought, Alice said:
The Johnstons are a clan distinguished in Scottish border history, and as brave as any Highland clan that ever wore brogues; but they lay entirely out of Lochbuy's knowledge nor was he thinking of them. This maxim, however, has been controverted. See Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. ii. p. 291; and the authorities there quoted.
As the warm May days came on they took long rides into the fresh country, talking over the endless detail of affairs, her money, her mother's money, the Colonel's trust funds, the Johnstons' future, the railroad situation, all that John Lane had hitherto carried tightly shut in his own mind.
But the picture of life the suggestion to the child's soft brain? Isabelle tossed the magazine into the waste basket, and yawned. Molly had left it with a sigh. On the way to the Bryn Mawr house Isabelle tried to explain to Molly what had happened to the Johnstons through the loss of the father, telling her what a good man Steve was, the sorrow the family had to bear. Molly listened politely.
Isabelle was to find that her daughter had developed certain tastes besides a love for clothes and a delight in riding in motor-cars.... Molly was in the library after luncheon, absorbed in an illustrated story of a popular magazine, which Isabelle glanced over while Miss Joyce made ready her charge to accompany her mother to the Johnstons'. The story was "innocent," "clean reading" enough, thin pages of smart dialogue between prettily dressed young men and athletic girls, the puppy loves of the young rich, mere stock fiction-padding of the day.
The architect's wife in The Common Lot, Harrington's sister in The Memoirs of an American Citizen, the clear-eyed Johnstons in Together they have or attain the knowledge, which seems a paradox, that selfishness can fatally entangle the individual in the perplexities of existence and that the best chance for disentanglement may come from intelligent unselfishness.
Price, "to find anything small and your own, don't you know?" She arched her brows prettily over her dilemma. Mrs. Price, who, in spite of the fascination that Bessie exerted, had prim ideas "of what young persons in moderate circumstances" should do, suggested that the Johnstons were buying a very good house in the new suburb of Bryn Mawr on the installment plan.
See ante, May 12, 1775. No doubt her Miscellanies. Ante, ii. 25. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 22. Johnson is the most common English formation of the Sirname from John; Johnston the Scotch. My illustrious friend observed that many North Britons pronounced his name in their own way. Johnson did not hear well, bawled out to him, "Are you of the Johnstons of Glencro, or of Ardnamurchan?"
"Nay, father, with whom am I to brawl, or how should I curse in your good company? Find you Scots so froward?" "But now, pretending to be our friends, a band of them is harrying the Sologne country . . . " "They will be Johnstons and Jardines, and wild wood folk of Galloway," I said. "These we scarce reckon Scots, but rather Picts, and half heathen.
There's work for four persons in this house, and there ought to be a governess beside. I don't at all like the influence of that school on Mildred " "Ought!" he exclaimed. "If people live in a certain kind of house, in a certain neighborhood, they must live up to it, that is all. If you wish to live as the Johnstons live, why that is another matter altogether." Her logic was imperturbable.
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