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"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
And now, just as she had so cleverly contrived this hour with Hildebrand for getting at all those intimate details of his life that a mother loves but does not care to talk about before her husband, this hour for hearing about his children, his meals, his money, his dear wife's success in society and appearances, thanks to her having married into the nobility, at Court, his own health, his indigestion-that ancient tormentor of his peace, armer Junge-and whether he had seen or heard anything of poor Emmi, his eldest sister, who had miserably married six thousand marks a year and lived impossibly at Spandau and could not be got to admit she did not like it-just as she was going to be satisfied on all these points came that eccentric and pushing Frau Pastor and spoilt it all.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
"The King, by ge-ged," seconded Stubbs.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid