She wrotewriteout the recipe for this and gavegiveit to my mother a year or two before she dieddie, but we could never make it as she did .
She smiledsmile, and gavegivesome message to an elderly man in white shirt-sleeves , who had followed her to the door .
Pulls down ninety thousand a year , and if he 's thirty-five I 'll -- " " Well , you askedaskmy advice , " interruptedinterrupthis mother 's voicevoicewith that muffled effect which is caused by a skirt being slipped over the head , " and I gavegiveit .
When he dieddiehe toldtellhis widder to give it to some smart young feller that had n't got none of his own ; so she gavegiveit to me .
Edith had rather objectedobjectto this arrangement , for Captain Lennox was expected to arrive by a late train this very evening ; but , although she was a spoiled child , she was too careless and idle to have a very strong will of her own , and gavegiveway when she foundfindthat her mother had absolutely orderedorderthose extra delicacies of the season which are always supposed to be efficacious against immoderate grief at farewell dinners .
It gave her no extra pleasure that any one should be left in the cold ; and when she roseriseto go , she turnedturnback and gavegivethe two outsiders a nervous little bowbow.
But , inasmuch as it has never been my practice to furnish my relatives with an itinerary of my journeys and in this case I anticipatedanticipateopposition to my wishes , I gavegiveout that I was going for a ramble in the Tyrol -- an old haunt of mine -- and propitiatedpropitiateRose ’s wrath by declaringdeclarethat I intended to study the political and social problems of the interesting community which dwells in that neighbourhood .
The old man -- he was white-haired and a little stooped , but with an immense idea of his personal dignity -- gavegiveme his reasons hesitatingly .
Her height and massiveness in the low room gavegiveher the look of a huge sibyl , while the strange fragrancefragranceof the mysterious herb blew in from the little garden .
I thoughtthinkof the terms we now kept with these heathen ; of how they came and went familiarly amongst us , spying out our weakness , and losing the salutary awe which that noblest captain had struckstrikeinto their souls ; of how many were employed as hunters to bring down deer for lazy masters ; of how , breakingbreakthe law , and that not secretly , we gavegivethem knives and arms , a soldier 's bread , in exchangeexchangefor pelts and pearls ; of how their emperor was forever sending us smooth messages ; of how their lips smiled and their eyes frowned .
Wherefore , when at midday I metmeetgood Master Wickham rowingrowdown from Henricus to Jamestown , to offer his aid to Master Bucke in his press of business to-morrow , I gavegivethe good man Godspeed , and thought his a fruitful erranderrandand one pleasing to the Lord . ”