Zitate aus dem Buch «A Plucky Girl»

But have we nothing?" I replied. "Only my pension as your dear father's widow

spoke with great excitement, and even passion. "Don't stir for a moment," said mother; "

She never could bear me to allude to that fatal and yet glorious occasion. She rose now, weak and

don't believe those friends we wish to keep will desert us, mother. On the contrary, I am certain they

Mother used to say that there were times when her daughter Westenra

Why, a curate's wife could scarcely manage on it."

Put them with the others, Westenra.

Father would approve of this,

have a proposal to make.

did not appear to be any lack of money. I was well educated, partly in Paris and