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" It was not that her sisters loved their mother any less ," recalled her French tutor Pierre Gilliard, " but Tatiana knew how to surround her with unwearying attentions and never gave way to her own capricious impulses.
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He was well rid of her.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
He treats her like she was dirt.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
That girl last night, what was her name??
It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
was and sisters
Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.
With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.
Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.
According to the myth, when Helios ' son Phaëton was killed, his mourning sisters became poplars, and their tears became the origin of elektron, amber.
In loyalty oaths, it was, " I will not value my life or that of my children less highly than I do the safety of the Emperor and his sisters ," or, if in consular motions: " Good fortune attend to the Emperor and his sisters.
Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.
It seems clear he was a good-looking, engaging young man, whose easy humour and kindness towards the sisters made a considerable impression.
It is possible that Weightman was no more aware of her, her sisters or their friend Ellen Nussey.
All three Brontë sisters worked as governesses or teachers, and all experienced problems controlling their charges, gaining support from their employers, and coping with homesickness — but Anne was the only one who persevered and made a success of her work.
At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.
He was finally reacquainted with his son Sulayman, whom he last saw weeping on the banks of the Euphrates with his sisters.
His mother was murdered by the Nazis, and two other sisters, Gittel and Devorah, died in Nazi concentration camps.
Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.
In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.
These pseudonyms veiled the sisters ' gender whilst preserving their real initials, thus Charlotte was " Currer Bell ".
There was speculation about the identity of Currer Bell and whether the author was male or female and it heightened on the publication of novels by Charlotte's sisters: Emily's Wuthering Heights by " Ellis Bell " and Anne's Agnes Grey by " Acton Bell ".
The reverse shows Caligula's three sisters, Agrippina, Drusilla and Julia Livilla, with whom Caligula was rumoured to have carried on incestuous relationships.
According to Suetonius, Caligula's body was placed under turf until it was burned and entombed by his sisters.
Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh, the oldest of five sisters, the youngest of whom is Victoria Clarke.
It was under his tenure as Master General that the sisters in the Order were given official membership.
One of Munch's younger sisters was diagnosed with mental illness at an early age.
was and loved
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
And it was the House he loved.
Everyone is ambivalent about his profession, if he has practised it long enough, but there were still moments when he loved the stage and all those unseen people out there, who might cheer you or boo you, but that was largely, though not entirely, up to you.
Now Pat may have been a lecher and a plugugly, but he was a good churchgoing Catholic and he loved his little sister.
Diane loved to dance in the nude, something she was to demonstrate time and again.
Rev loved Honotassa, it was like a part of his breath and body ; ;
When she loved, it was with a passion that drove her along and carried along with her those things she loved.
He loved the son and was always glad to be sent back to him.
He had loved and lost Vivian Wayne to somebody else, had watched her marry the somebody else, and had caught a bear of a cold by kissing the bride good-by forever, which was really piling it on.
She would weep in private, he was sure, for she loved him in her frigid way, though in public she would be dry-eyed.
Marpessa was kidnapped by Idas but was loved by Apollo as well.
Castalia was a nymph whom Apollo loved.
Yet the public loved him, and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot.
His death was mourned in the country, by the people who loved the king, and by the nobles who were starting to fear his successor.
She was loved by Apollo and consorted with him in said grove.
According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.
As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland had made their impression, although she later said of Alice that she was more interested in Tenniel's illustrations than what they were about.
According to Gibson, he was inspired by the big screen epics he had loved as a child, such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and William Wyler's The Big Country.
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