... out a word or two of warning. Don't take the wrong train, mother,- this was his familiar name for his wife- and don't you get lost down to the ...
... absent, and had not received the letter announcing their arrival. Her anxiety awakened by this conjecture, she pounded with still more vigorous knuckles ...
... the electric trains rushing by, and the ceaseless din of the thoroughfare, and looked at the electric light, which seemed to her so wonderful after the ...
... practised in her daily existence the teaching of the Sisters. She was, therefore, very much pleased to hear that the poor little waif whom the Christies ...
... a cheque for present expenses.. Alicia's eyes opened wide. How much. she inquired. Two hundred.. Two hundred.. Yes, answered Mrs. Christie, ...
... in a high pompadour, into puffs and curls filling up the spaces on the top of her head. Her brown eyes had, as Mrs. Christie at once observed, a curious ...
... an appealing glance towards Mrs. Christie, who maintained, by a valiant effort, her absolute composure. The door was thrown open by the same wooden-visaged ...
... death of her parents and the removal of those who had temporarily taken her in charge to another city, her whereabouts had been unknown, and ...
... would you prefer to take up your abode with Mr. Robert Allston, who is also prepared to receive you.. If you are not afraid of the discomforts ...
... to be allowed to sit up a little longer with Miss Alicia, and the two fell into a confidential chat, during which the new-made heiress confided to her ...
... being a very real one, appeared to dominate the room. Arabella stole many a glance thereat, as she sat opposite Mrs. Winslow at the table, with its ...
... said, but city folks don't seem to care in the summer. There's lots of woods 'round there, and a lake to fish ill and nice walks and rides.. Carrie ...
... little girl, exclaimed Marion, I have none, either, but perhaps she has got a papa.. Miss Alicia shook her head. Oh, what does she do. cried ...
... that. The man seemed to have forgotten the quaint little figure of the child sitting so quietly on the opposite side of the table. Mrs. Christie ...
... her, though she didn't guess that I did. Her little place yonder is goin' to be sold out by the sheriff a month from to-day, if she don't pay up the ...
... before Millicent Van Brugh had been unhappily married, and had buried the sorrows of a premature widowhood as the Purple Lady of Kenoosha, and before ...
... her eyes as she stood in the oratory. It reminded her of school days at the Sisters' Academy in New York, where she had been as a little girl. My, ...
... him with her usual common sense:. There's no use bothering about it now, she said. When you're a man you can give away your money, if you want ...
... in, could scarcely believe that no bones were broken, and that, so far as he could discover, there was no internal injury. The feelings of the negro ...
... presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1960. The book reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. ...