[White Lies by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookWhite Lies CHAPTER IV 40/71
I wa-a-ant the jam--oh! oh! oh! oh!'" and Jacintha mimicked, after her fashion, the mingled grief and ire of infancy debarred its jam.
Edouard wore a puzzled air, but it was only for a moment; the next he hid his face in his hands, and cried, "Fool!" "I shall not contradict you," said his Mentor. "She was my best friend.
Once acquainted with the doctor, I could visit at Beaurepaire." "Parbleu!" "She had thought of a way to reconcile my wishes with this terrible etiquette that reigns here." "She thinks to more purpose than you do; that is clear." "Nothing is left now but to ask her pardon, and to consent; I am off." "No, you are not," and Jacintha laid a grasp of iron on him.
"Will you be quiet ?--is not one blunder a day enough? If you go near her now, she will affront you, and order the doctor not to speak to you." "O Jacintha! your sex then are fiends of malice ?" "While it lasts.
Luckily with us nothing lasts very long.
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