id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt nyp.33433106908167 Pirkis Catherine Louisa A dateless bargain; a novel by C.L. Pirkis ... --- 1887 .txt text/plain 77822 5263 86 He has as good as said goodbye to all of us, and means, I know, to set off some time to-day," was elder brother to Joyce's and Mab's father-a small, thin, wirylooking old gentleman on the down side of sixty. "In my young days young women were not in the habit of throwing themselves at the heads of young men," said Uncle Archie, pursing his lips and looking as sour as possible. and talks like a groom, you repeat the same thing; and here, because poor Mab, as I said just now, has embarked upon a career of Joyce is better or worse ?" Frank once asked savagely of Mab. Joyce three times a day," was Mab's reply. " Poor Uncle Archie !" said Joyce, patting his hand soothingly, think whenever Mab, Joyce, Aunt Bell, or Uncle Archie got together for a quiet five minutes that they were bent on excluding It was just about the time that Uncle Archie and Joyce, looking ./cache/nyp.33433106908167.pdf ./txt/nyp.33433106908167.txt