Her father’s ideas of expostulation were a little harsh and forcible, and
over the claret-colored table-cloth and under the gas chandelier, with his hat and
umbrella between them like the mace in Parliament, he and his daughter
contrived to have a violent quarrel. He was in a curious state of
desperation. <1>
LUCY GETS A DETENTION
\"Lucy and John! I'll see you both in detention this
afternoon in two-oh-four,\" snapped Sara Darnell, Lincoln
High School's only female Physical Science teacher. Old Bedlam
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IX. 219
“Some in Europe, a few down south, none here. ”
She shook her head gently. “I can’t keep away from you. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. Her head felt absurdly like one of those noddling
manikins in the Hong-Kong curio-shops. "Only Jack's two wives—Edgeworth Bess and Poll Maggot," replied Austin,
laughing.
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