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"Of course," Bridget continued, with her eyes still on the photograph, "it isn't so distinctly handsome as Mark's." "Perhaps not," was the answer; "I thought you had seen him while we were at Crowborough. Mr. Clynesworth. Although his name is Rupert everybody has called him Jimmy since his school days." "I remember Miss Clynesworth," suggested Bridget. "His sister or, rather, his half-sister.
Marsh is rather fair." "So is my sister, for that matter." "And tall?" "Yes; but you never saw her. You'd never forget her it you had. She has got eyes like a lion." "Ah! Does she ride?" "Oh, she is famous for that; and driving, and all." "Indeed! But no; I see no resemblance." "Oh, she is only my half-sister." "This is very strange." Lady Bassett put her hand to her brow, and thought.
"Moreover: Abraham married his half-sister; Jacob married two sisters: Moses' father married his aunt." "That is the Bible, is it? Thank you! Then I prefer the Decretals and the Councils. The Pope must dissolve the marriage." "Is it then to be dissolved?" "Didn't you know? Yes, it is. If Julius II could grant a dispensation, Clement VII can grant an absolution."
Will declared publicly, that our estate of Castlewood was only ours during his brother's pleasure; that his father, out of consideration for Madam Esmond, his lordship's half-sister, had given her the place for life, and that he, William, was in negotiation with his brother, the present Lord Castlewood, for the purchase of the reversion of the estate!
"Thank you for coming." "I am your half-sister," said Betty, putting out her hand. And then the desire to use the best that was in her overcame the repugnance that made her very knees shake, and she put her arms about the girl and kissed her. "You are mighty kind," said the other. "Will you come into my room?" Betty followed her into a small room, simpler than any in her own servants' quarter.
Chivalry, a notion purely Bedouin, is hardly yet extinct among us. Romance, the offspring of pre-Islamic Arabia, is still a common motive of our action, and our poets express it still, to the neglect of classic models, in the rhymed verse of Yemen. The mass of our people still pray to the God of Abraham, and turn eastwards towards that land which is Arabia's half-sister, the Holy Land of the Jews.
Margaret was a worthy woman of masculine tastes and habits; she was the daughter of Charles V and therefore a half-sister of Philip.
Rose carefully did not look his way, but she experienced an altogether new excitement, the very ancient one of desiring to taste forbidden fruit simply because it was forbidden; this particular fruit, as such, had no special charm; but she was born a Mallett and the half-sister of Reginald.
John Coleridge Patteson, his mother's second child and eldest son, was born at No. 9, Grower Street, Bedford Square, on the 1st of April, 1827, and baptized on the 8th. Besides the elder half-sister already mentioned, another sister, Frances Sophia Coleridge, a year older than, and one brother, James Henry, nearly two years younger than Coleridge, made up the family.
She was not unknown in society, for she came of a good old county family, and was half-sister of the Bertie whose name has already appeared in these pages.
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