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Except in the busy seasons, he nearly always returned to the ranch to breakfast at eight o'clock, with Octavia and Mrs. Maclntyre, at the little table set in the central hallway, bringing with him a tonic and breezy cheerfulness full of the health and flavour of the prairies.
"Say that the meanest girl in school, Miss Sarah Ford, was chosen, at the last moment, to lead the girls, owing to the sudden illness of Miss Dorothy Dale, the most popular girl in school, who took a headache from the sun, but later recovered in time to carry a Betsy Ross flag, along with her dear friend, Miss Octavia Travers, the flags being presented to the girls by Major Dale.
Dido is a character for all time, the chef d'oeuvre of the Aeneid. Among the stately ladies of the imperial house a Livia, a Scribonia, an Octavia, perhaps a Julia Virgil must have found the elements which he has fused with such mighty power, the rich beauty, the fierce passion, the fixed resolve. Dido is his greatest effort: and yet she is not an individual living woman like Helen or Ophelia.
Those papers that Octavia had tucked away, smiling to think how Felicia would smile when she found them. Indeed it was Octavia's letter that made everything clear. Dear Daughter: Now that you are old enough to understand and Grandy is himself old enough to be more patient I think perhaps you will be the one who will be able to make him forgive Louisa for going to France.
Suspended from Octavia's waist by a long loop of the embroidered ribbon, was a little round fan, of downy pale-blue feathers, and with this she played as she talked; but Lucia, having nothing to play with, could only stand with her little hands hanging at her sides. "I have never been to an afternoon tea like this before," Octavia said. "It is nothing like a kettle-drum."
"Octavia," she explained, "this is Lady Theobald, whom you will be very glad to know. She knew your father." "Yes," returned my lady, "years ago. He has had time to improve since then. How do you do?" Octavia's limpid eyes rested serenely upon her. "How do you do?" she said, rather indifferently. "You are from Nevada?" asked Lady Theobald. "Yes." "It is not long since you left there?"
It was three o'clock before the "chap at Octavia" answered Stedman's signalling. Then Stedman delivered Gordon's message, and immediately shut off all connection, before the Octavia operator could question him. Gordon dictated his message in this way: "Begin with the date line, 'Opeki, June 22.
Believing that I was following a direct instruction, I clasped my fan to my bosom and held it there as we walked up the aisle, and during the ceremony, wondering why the others did not do so, too. The baby in my mother's arms Octavia, the eighth daughter shocked me by crying a little, but I tried to behave the better on that account. It all seemed very solemn and mysterious to me.
"You can rejoice," Archibius added, completing the sentence, and laying his right hand soothingly on the arm of the excited woman, "only it would be advisable at this time to put the portrait elsewhere, and rest satisfied with confiding your opinion of Octavia to your brother and a friend as reliable as myself. If we conquer, such things may pass; if not The messenger tarries long "
If when one of Plautus's comedies is upon the stage and a company of servants are acting their parts, you should come out in the garb of a philosopher, and repeat out of 'Octavia' a discourse of Seneca's to Nero, would it not be better for you to say nothing than by mixing things of such different natures to make an impertinent tragi-comedy?
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