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So deeply was this manifest that Mrs Constable went back to The Paddock with her five boys shortly after dinner; and Mr Lennox, seeing that he must make the best of things, gave a hint to Jasmine that they had better leave him alone with their mother's half-sister. The boys had groaned audibly at this ending of their evening's fun.
She wondered whether little Ida had ever heard of her half-sister, and what Miss More knew about it all. 'How old is Mrs. Moon? she asked. 'I fancy she must be forty, or near that. I know that she was nearly thirty years younger than the Senator, but I never saw her. 'You never saw her? Margaret was surprised. 'No, Miss More answered. 'She is insane, you know.
Sometimes I get snippy with Alicia these days. "No," said my half-sister in an exasperated way. "Why will you persist in speaking in that way? You are very provoking. It is not likely I would wish to see you throw yourself away on a poor man, and I'm sure you must like Gus." "Oh, yes, I like him well enough," I said listlessly.
There entered a young creature, almost of my own age, who, to my amazement saluted me as uncle. This was the child of my half-sister.
"I see it written on your face; your husband has put you away and loves another woman, your own half-sister whom you brought up from a child." "Ah! master, you have heard aright." "I have not heard, I look upon you and I see. Fool, am I not a wizard? Tell me " and taking dust into his hand, he blew the grains this way and that, regarding them curiously. "Yes, it is so.
He had no time for the long dicing and drinking bouts the Persians loved, but he never failed to find each day an hour to spend with Artazostra his wife, with Roxana his half-sister, and with Glaucon his preserver. Slowly through the winter health had returned to the Athenian. For days he had lain dreaming away the hours to the tune of the flutes and the fountains.
Pierrette's mother was a Demoiselle Auffray of Provins, half-sister by the father's side of Madame Rogron, mother of the present owners of the house. Monsieur Auffray, her husband, had married at the age of eighteen; his second marriage took place when he was nearly sixty-nine. By the first, he had an only daughter, very plain, who was married at sixteen to an innkeeper of Provins named Rogron.
"I always consider the dowry the principal part of a marriage." Drusus regained his litter, and ordered his bearers to take him to the house of the Vestals, back of the Temple of Vesta, where he wished to see his aunt Fabia and Livia, his little half-sister.
No keen-witted reader would ever confound the active, rosy, domestic Phoebe Pyncheon with the dreamy, sensitive, and strongly subjective Hilda of "The Marble Faun;" and Hawthorne might have sent a communication to the Athenaeum to refresh the reviewer's memory, for it was not Zenobia in "The Blithedale Romance" who was dogged by a mysterious persecutor, but her half-sister Priscilla.
"Miss Tuttle was Mrs. Jeffrey's half-sister. The bond between them was strong. Would she would I be apt to speak of my young wife with bitterness?" "That is not an answer to my question, Mr. Jeffrey. I must request a more positive reply." Miss Tuttle made a move. The strain on all present was so great we could but notice it.
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