Then came the moment of transition; it was with the sense of promotion he had when he, an orphan educated at a commercial charity-school, was invited to a fine villa belonging to Mr.
He had been left an orphan when he was fresh from a public school.
Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.
He was an orphan and an only child, and had a warm, domestic disposition.
"She is not my mother," repudiated Lady Caroline angrily; and her anger sounded like the regretful wail of a melodious orphan.
I told him you were an orphan that the Cuthberts had adopted, and nobody knew very much about what you'd been before that.
"I thought Marilla Cuthbert was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all.
Lynde says she knows an orphan girl who tried to poison her benefactor.
But just imagine what you would feel like if you were a little orphan girl who had never had such an honor.
Just imagine if you were a poor little orphan girl that kind people had adopted and you had just one bosom friend in all the world.
I didn't suppose God would have time to bother about a little orphan girl's dress.
If you refuse it will be a lifelong sorrow on a poor little orphan girl, would you, even if she had a dreadful temper?
As soon as her doctor allowed her to put her foot out-of-doors she hurried up to Green Gables, bursting with curiosity to see Matthew and Marilla's orphan, concerning whom all sorts of stories and suppositions had gone abroad in Avonlea.
Here was an unexpectedly good chance to get this unwelcome orphan off her hands, and she did not even feel grateful for it.
That left me an orphan and folks were at their wits' end, so Mrs.
"You would cry, too, if you were an orphan and had come to a place you thought was going to be home and found that they didn't want you because you weren't a boy.
Said you and your sister were adopting her from an orphan asylum and that you would be along for her presently.
We're getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he's coming on the train tonight.
The little orphan who knelt at her never-finished prayer by the bed whereon reposed the black kitten that never grew up into a cat.
Uncle Benjamin would foot the bill with a splendid gesture of munificence in thus assisting the widow and orphan, and talk forever after of the shocking fees specialists charged for looking wise and saying they couldn't do anything.
