She saw her stepfather throw a shine into his eye which answered "No!
Her motive on going to the yard was to get an opportunity of observing the general position of affairs on Farfrae's premises now that her stepfather was a workman there.
She made the room more comfortable, gave directions to the people below, and by the time she went away had reconciled her stepfather to her visiting him.
Arriving one day on this errand she found her stepfather was measuring up clover-seed and rape-seed in the corn-stores on the top floor, and she ascended to him.
When Elizabeth's head rose through the trap she perceived that the upper door was open, and that her stepfather and Farfrae stood just within it in conversation, Farfrae being nearest the dizzy edge, and Henchard a little way behind.
Not a hint of the matter was thrown out to her stepfather by Elizabeth herself or by Farfrae either.
By the end of a year Henchard's little retail seed and grain shop, not much larger than a cupboard, had developed its trade considerably, and the stepfather and daughter enjoyed much serenity in the pleasant, sunny corner in which it stood.
Among his numerous assistants were again his stepfather Bartolo, his son Vittorio, and, among the less important, the painters Paolo Uccello and Benozzo Gozzoli.
It was assigned to Lorenzo Ghiberti in 1403, and he had with him his stepfather Bartolo di Michele, and other assistants (including possibly Donatello).
Annie's stepfather is soon to marry a widow, but this further complication of her already complicated family relations does not seem to trouble her in the least.
Her stepfather might recover his old kindness and generosity as soon as he knew she no longer stood in Cissy's way, and that she had never seriously thought of marrying Mr. Bowling.
My stepfather has been very nice, and is paying for all the furniture, and has promised me a lot of things.
I shall go home at first my stepfather has written a kind letter, and of course he's glad to know I shall marry Mr. Cobb.
Richard regarded his stepfather with all the affection that ever a child had for its own parent; and until he was twenty-one was known to the world as Richard Wilhelm Geyer.
Richard Wagner's stepfather was his patient, loving and loyal friend.
Now her marriage would mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her stepfather do to prevent it?
However that may be, the young lady was very decidedly carried away, and having quite made up her mind that her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never for an instant entered her mind.
Publius AEbutius, whose father had held equestrian rank in the army, was left an orphan, and his guardians dying, he was educated under the eye of his mother Duronia, and his stepfather Titus Sempronius Rutilus.
His mother on one side and his stepfather on the other loading him with reproaches, drove him out of the house, assisted by four slaves.
Whilst in the West he became engaged to be married, and before marriage he visited his home, when his stepfather offered him half his property if he would return there and live.
When he was fifteen years old his mother married again and he lived with his stepfather till twenty-one.
His stepfather assured Palmer that there would not be 4000 shillings for those who had claims on his estate.
Later in the evening Palmer came to Mr. Stevens and renewed his conversation about the bills, hoping that affairs would be settled pleasantly, and was told by the stepfather that “they could be only settled in Chancery.
But naturally enough the stepfather showed none of the spirit and pluck in defense of the brood that had been displayed by the original parent.
Seeing he could not be a stepfather to a family, he was quite willing to assume a nearer relation.
But an usurper is a stepfather that builds his own hopes and views on the ruine and destruction of his usurped dominions, and has joy from the fleecing and impoverishing of those under his influence and power.
If her stepfather (Hugh MacDonald of Armadale) had not granted Miss a passport, she could not have undertook her journey and voyage.
Your stepfather has gone down to the club at St. Helier's to see some of his old acquaintances.
She had spoken the truth to her stepfather when she told him that she held her mother blameless; yet the fact that she had but the smallest share in that mother's heart was cruelly patent to her.
Your stepfather has been gone half-an-hour, my dear," said the lady of the manor.
Thyrza herself, however, did not anticipate any more important communication than that possibly her stepfather had purchased a new dress for her in Zeerust.
The farmer who bought Spielman's Vley of my stepfather is an Englishman, an emigrant from a Berkshire village.
I think Vander Heyden, and your stepfather too, George, are quite right to bring their ladies with them.
Did you know that your stepfather and mother, as well as your sister, were on the way here?
Meanwhile Thyrza, who had joined her stepfather in the garden, was having an interview with him which altogether took her by surprise.
As the bookkeeper of the establishment, for his stepfather had never been able to induce him to take an active part in its work, which in his heart he considered beneath him, Adrian should have been in the office by nine o'clock.
Because I won't betray my stepfather and brother," gasped Adrian.
If my stepfather and Foy choose to take that risk, well and good, but I maintain that they have no right to lay its consequences upon my mother, whose eldest son I am, nor even upon myself.
When he came downstairs it was to find that Foy and Martin were already departed to the factory, and that his stepfather had gone out, whither he knew not.
The meal was late, an unusual occurrence, which annoyed him; moreover, neither his mother nor his stepfather appeared at table.
Either the death or the absconding of his stepfather was too good news to be true, and his first duty was to serve his mother.
Your nice stepfather sot by the fireplace a smokin'.
In her talk she referred constantly to her home in Sicily, to her stepfather and her younger brothers and sisters.
For some minutes Mary and her stepfather remained in this position, and then the former, after imprinting a kiss on Learoyd's forehead, rose softly to her feet and set to work to prepare the dinner.
Come what may, she resolved to follow her stepfather and discover what were his plans.
She had little art of narrative, and her endeavours to shield both her mother and stepfather as far as possible from blame impeded the flow of her words.
After more than two hours of fruitless search she returned to the farm, cherishing the hope that her stepfather might have returned too.
Mary noiselessly crept out of bed and, lifting the latch of her bedroom door, stood in the shadow of the passage and watched every movement of her stepfather in the kitchen below.
Did you tell your mother or stepfather that you had done this work?
Did you advise your mother or your stepfather you were doing this?
Gervasio's stepfather was old, with a grizzled beard; it was evident that this man was young, in spite of the fact that his hat was pulled across his eyes.
It would be convenient if we knew how many there were; Pietro and Gervasio's stepfather and your man with the crucifix we may safely count upon, but just how many more we have no means of knowing.
Young is the stepfather of your husband, Michael Ralph Paine?
That her mother remarried, and that her stepfather did not treat her well.
I fear you might if my stepfather should happen to see you," replied the girl with a shudder, her face mantling with a deep luscious red, the like of which Jack had never seen anywhere save on the petal of a rose or the cheek of a cherry.
Now, Shade and mystepfather have taken poor Gray's car and gone up into the mountains.
Booker's stepfather found a job, and he also found a job for little Booker.
He never told her that his money had gone to keep the family, because his stepfather had been on a strike and therefore out of work.
