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Usage examples of arabella.

Miss Arabella, her stitchery lying neglected on the table before, sat Miss Sophia, reading aloud from another volume of this instructive periodical.

Although Arabella was unquestionably the Beauty of the family, it was pretty generally agreed in the neighbourhood that once Sophia had outgrown the over-plumpness of her sixteen years she might reasonably hope to rival her senior.

Without precisely regretting the circumstances which had made it impossible for herself to shine farther afield than York and Scarborough, she was determined that Arabella should not be similarly circumscribed.

Perhaps it had been with this hope already at the back of her mind that she had invited her school-friend, Arabella Haverhill, who had contracted such a brilliant match, to stand as godmother to her infant daughter.

Certainly her resolve to send the younger Arabella to make her debut into society under the aegis of Lady Bridlington was of no very recent date.

Sophia might rest assured, she wrote, that she would leave no stone unturned to provide Arabella with a suitable husband.

Now, that is speaking more plainly than perhaps Papa would like, but you are a sensible puss, Arabella, and I have no scruple in being open with you.

Tallant allowed it, adding reflectively that Arabella put him forcibly in mind of what her Mama was at the same age.

Tallant, you cherish hopes of seeing Arabella married to her cousin Tom?

I believe Arabella to be a well-behaved girl enough, but she is very young, after all, and I have thought sometimes that her spirits might, lacking wiser guidance, betray her into unbecoming conduct.

When Arabella returns to us she will have forgotten how to pick up her own handkerchief, mark my words!

Bertram made a grimace at Arabella across the table, and Harry dug her surreptitiously in the ribs with his elbow.

I think Papa will agree that Arabella is a good girl, and deserves this indulgence more than any of you.

Earnest perusal of the fashion journals had cast Arabella into a mood of despair, but Mama took a more cheerful view of the matter.

But it is a beautiful fur, and will make a muff for Arabella, besides trimming a pelisse!