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‘Those two will get the start of us, Helen, if we don’t look sharp,’ observed Huntingdon. ‘They’ll make a match of it, as sure as can be. That Lowborough’s fairly besotted. But he’ll find himself in a fix when he’s got her, I doubt.’ ‘And she’ll find herself in a fix when she’s got him,’ said I, ‘if what I’ve heard of him is true.’ ‘Not a bit of it.
So Wilmot advanced with some misgivings toward the negro and dog. He asked the negro if his master were at home. "No, sar, marster’s done gone away, but Miss Nancy, she’s at home. Jist walk right in thar, whar you see the pile of saddles in the entry." Accordingly, Mr. Wilmot "walked in where the pile of saddles were," and knocked at a side door.
And yet it was she who had betrayed him. “Perhaps because she feels how she’s wronged him she hates him at moments,” Alyosha thought to himself. He hoped that it was only “at moments.” In Katya’s last words he detected a challenging note, but he did not take it up. “I sent for you this morning to make you promise to persuade him yourself.
Robinson’s compliments, and she’s in very good spirits, and doesn’t find herself any worse.’ The piano was heard no longer, the knitting-needles were laid aside, drawing was neglected, and mantua-making and millinery, on the smallest scale imaginable, appeared to have become the favourite amusement of the whole family.
"She wants this letter took right to the mail," she said to Joshua, Aunt Mary’s longest-tried servitor. "Then it’ll be took right to mail," said Joshua. "She’s pretty mad," said Lucinda. "Then she’ll soon get over it," replied the other, taking up his hat and preparing to depart for the barn forthwith. Lucinda returned to Aunt Mary with a species of dried-up sigh.
She’s very plain, they say, and getting on to forty or past, and so, you know, if she didn’t jump at this hopportunity, she thought she’d never get a better. I guess she thought such a handsome young husband was worth all ‘at ever she had, and he might take it and welcome, but I lay she’ll rue her bargain afore long.
After the first week or two it became apparent that she would have to be quiet and very prudent for some time, and it was when this information was imparted to her that the family discovered that she had been intending to go to New York for the Horse-Show. "She’s awful mad," Lucinda said to Joshua. "The doctor says she’ll have to stay in bed." "She won’t stay in bed long," said Joshua.
Niver a moment but that lass was working at some t’ing. Oh, I wonder what she’s doun’ and finking this Christmas.” “Don’t you worry,” Maida always said. “Billy’ll find her for you yet—he said he would.” Maida, herself, was giving, for the first time in her experience, a good deal of thought to Christmas time.
As for the old lady, you know her as well as I do. She’s only the one fault. If you don’t keep your eye lifting she would give away the roof off the station. Well, it seems it’s natural in Kanakas. She’s turned a powerful big woman now, and could throw a London bobby over her shoulder. But that’s natural in Kanakas too, and there’s no manner of doubt that she’s an A 1 wife. Mr.
I went back to the window to the master and said, ‘She’s here, she’s come; Agrafena Alexandrovna has come, wants to be let in.’ And he started like a baby. ‘Where is she?’ he fairly gasped, but couldn’t believe it. ‘She’s standing there,’ said I. ‘Open.’ He looked out of the window at me, half believing and half distrustful, but afraid to open. ‘Why, he is afraid of me now,’ I thought.
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