Those who have seen Maria Clara in the nunnery say she has got so thin and weak that she can scarcely talk

Ibarra is excommunicated, and Capitan Tiago, through his fear of the friars, is forced to break the engagement and agree to the marriage of Maria Clara with a young and inoffensive Spaniard provided by Padre Damaso.

Its bankruptcy would not ruin his wife, but she would feel the loss of her money, and he was not going to use Clara for a shield against Ellen Seaton's attacks.

" Mrs. Ochiltree drove immediately to her niece's, where she found Mrs. Carteret and Clara at home.

She had enough malice to entertain an impulse to strip Clara of her complacency, take away from her her pleasant cup of sorrow, make her take one good look at herself for the woman she was rather than the woman she was flaunting.

"Doctor," said John, as he came out of the rectory to assist Clara from the gig, "the parson here is a careful driver; see, he has not turned a hair.

Enter Antonio, and Clara to Jacinta. Jac.

But the cherishing of such a grudge even with such foundation was not like Schumann, and a year later, from Petersburg, where he had accompanied Clara on a triumphal tour and where they had the most cordial recognition from the Czar and Czarina, he addressed old Wieck as "Dear Father," and described to him with contagious pride the immense success of his wife.

Sometimes my mind wandered and I called Clara by that other's name, spoke to her as if she were Aniela.

And when Katie thought of how much Wayne had cared, why he had not been happy, it grew more and more difficult to treat Clara as one sanctified by sorrow.

To keep Clara out of the hands of fortune-hunters, but ostensibly to enable her to pass her first mourning in decent retirement, he had induced her to settle in one of Muñoz's haciendas, a few miles from the city, where he of course had her much to himself.

The maternal passion was less strong in Clara than the passion for lingerie.

" "Come in, Captain Glover," at this moment called Clara through the blinds.

When the brig struck he must carry Clara into the top, secure her in the sling, and send her ashore.

He had accepted this invitation eagerly, hoping to make friends with Clara during the evening.

I fancy I see him getting Clara without going on his sore marrow-bones and begging pardon of gods and women.