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Updated: June 3, 2025
But the Lord of the Government Board had been blessed with various children; and perhaps it was now thought expedient to look after Aunt Penelope's Devonshire acres.
We have been pretending that we were members of Penelope's household. If you have never read the 'Odyssey' you won't know what I am talking about. Joan Peters we sometimes call Penelope. She is everlastingly at her weaving, but does not unravel her web at night that she has woven in the daytime. She is not troubled by Penelope's importunate suitors.
It was a Penelope's web of negotiation, said one of the envoys. Amid pertinacious and wire-drawn subtleties, every trace of practical business vanished. Neuburg departed to look after his patrimonial estates; leaving his interests in the duchies to be watched over by the Archduke. Even Count Zollern, after six months of wrangling in Brussels, took his departure.
That was not only Penelope's first lesson, but Hester's. The child, flushed and important with her sudden promotion from pupil to teacher, scrupulously repeated each point in the lesson, and the woman, humble and earnestly attentive, listened with bated breath. Then, Penelope, still airily consequential, practiced for almost an hour.
A puff of wind swept a thin veil of smoke into the room, but for me the air was filled with sickening fumes, and I sank to my knees and closed my eyes as a child does at night to shut out the perils of the darkness. I felt Penelope's arms gripped tightly about my neck, her dead weight dragging me down.
Then, at a word from Miss Ashe, they turned away from the window to the tea-table. While the children were taking their places she made the tea. "Now," she said, as she drew the cosy over the teapot, "which of you will say grace?" The four looked from one to the other dismayed. Esther and Penelope's cheeks flamed hotly, Angela looked puzzled. Poppy alone spoke.
Later, the ex-manager confessed to a desire for music Penelope's music and the twain went in to the sitting-room and the piano, leaving Elinor and Kent to make the best of each other as the spirit moved them. It was Elinor's chance for free speech with Kent the opportunity she had craved.
What a feather it would be in my cap if I should succeed in making these automata reflect! if I could make them understand that their work is a Penelope's web, which they are condemned to unravel at one end as fast as they weave at the other!
He has to do something to make a showing with the Penelope's owner! I tell you, Matt, I know this man Hudner! He's as thrifty as an Armenian and as slippery as a skating rink. He's laying to stab you, boy. Mind your step!" "Even so, Cappy, she's a bargain. I expect to spend fifty thousand dollars putting her in first-class condition after we get her." "You expect to spend it! Why, how you talk!
Penelope's back became very square as she listened to these words, and the red which suffused her face went right round her neck. But she walked solemnly on in front without a word. "Aunties are unpleasant things," she said to herself; "but, all the same, I mean to fuss over this one." Here she opened a door, flung it wide, and cried out to her parent: "Paddy, here comes Aunt Sophia Tredgold."
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