The Widow BarnabyWard and Lock, 1857 - 494 pages |
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acquaintance admiration Annie answer appearance aunt Barnaby aunt Betsy Barnaby's beautiful believe better certainly Cheltenham Clifton Colonel Beauchamp Colonel Hubert daughter dear dearest delightful Donny doubt drawing-room dress Edward Stephenson Egerton elegant Elizabeth Peters exclaimed eyes father favour feeling felt fortune Frederick Stephenson gentlemen girl give hand happy hear heard heart heroine honour hope husband John Williams kind Lady Elizabeth Lady Stephenson laughing leave listened look ma'am madam Major Allen Barnaby mamma manner marriage Martha Mary Peters mean mind Miss Betsy Miss Compton Miss Louisa Miss Matilda Miss Morrison Miss Willoughby morning naby never niece O'Donagough old lady Orleans party Patty perfectly perhaps poor pretty quaker replied Agnes returned Sandusky seemed Silverton sister smile sort speak sure talk tell thing thought Tornorino turned walk Whitlaw widow wife wish woman word young lady
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Page 3 - O'Donagough immediately addressed herself, for she, too, felt a pleasure in the exercise of the inventive faculty, which was almost equal to that of her husband. " Oh, my dear girls !" she began, " what a history I have been listening to! Such a story has come out ! Mercy on me! I hardly know •whether I stand on my head or my heels !" " Oh, dear me ! What is it ?" cried Miss Louisa, divided between fright and curiosity, for Mrs. O'Donagough by pressing her right hand strongly against her left side,...
Page 480 - An expedition, too, that was to lead her to a land which all the world knows I cherish in my memory with peculiar delight ? I will not believe it, but trusting to the long-established, and goodhumoured toleration of those who condescend to listen to my gossipings, I will forthwith proceed to tell them all that has happened to this dear excellent lady since General Hubert and Mr. Stephenson left her in her grand drawing-room in Curzon-street, surrounded by her family and friends. CHAP. II.
Page 110 - In what manner does the republican form of government appear to affect the social habits of the people? " How far does the absence of a national form of worship produce the results anticipated from it? " At what degree of elevation may the education of the ladies of the Union be considered to stand, when compared to that received by the females of other countries? " In what manner was slavery originally instituted ? " And what are its real effects both on the black and the white population?
Page 77 - ... introducing her and her family to any persons of Louisianian importance. This was precisely the fact. Not that Mrs. Beauchamp entertained the slightest doubt of Mrs. Allen Barnaby's being a person of great talent ; of that she felt sufficiently assured, by the manner in which she admired every thing she saw ; but as it appeared that the party had omitted to bring letters of introduction to New Orleans (which the major accounted for by saying that their original intention had been to sail to New...
Page 196 - Barnaby should have taken himself off," replied the young man ; " but I am very glad," he added, with a friendly smile, " that you are left behind." "That is very kind of you, sir," said the grateful spinster, looking up in his face, however, as if she wished him to say a little more on the subject. " But I wonder you are not a little more surprised, sir." " My good lady," he replied, " will you tell me if you and your sister have any intention of joining them again ?" " Oh dear, yes, I suppose so...
Page 264 - And he set himself assiduously to the task of turning a goose-quill into a pen. " Don't trouble yourself, Mr. Fad," said the major, when the pen was about half made, " I have found one that will do exceedingly well. Now then, sir, have the kindness to endorse it without losing time, for I have promised Mr. Griskin to cross to Hoboken with him before dinner, and it is as much as I shall be able to do to bring the money to you here, and then get to the ferry by the time we agreed upon.
Page 181 - ... or twice she had hinted to some of her rich neighbours, that she thought it would be better, " for a good many reasons," if they would relax a little the severity of their discipline; but this was in every case received with such vehemence of indignation that the same straightforward common sense which had suggested her observations, very speedily determined her to keep them for the future to herself; and for several years past her pretty strong opinions on the subject had only manifested themselves...
Page 120 - She then took a fresh sheet of paper, and after a little reflection produced the following list of interrogatories. " In what manner does the republican form of government appear to affect the social habits of the people ? " How far does the absence of a national form of worship produce the results anticipated from it? "At what degree of elevation may the education of the ladies of the Union be considered to stand, when compared to that received by the females of other countries ?" " In what manner...
Page 189 - ... without delay. She won't keep you waiting, you may depend upon it, and when you see her just look and speak as a devoted husband ought to do when he thinks himself in danger of losing the best of wives, and then send her to me, and you shall find every thing beautifully arranged for our setting off in the twinkling of an eye.
Page 213 - This being uttered with a good deal of vehemence, and an angry augmentation of colour, while something that looked like tears glittered in her eyes, her father instantly lost all disposition to mirth, and replied in a tone of the most coaxing fondness, " What in the world have you got into your head, my darling Patty? You can't suppose, for a moment, that I would let any body plague you to do what you did not like ? Did I ever do it since you were born, Patty? You know very well, dearest, that I...