"Goddaughter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Betty," said Mrs. Sherman, turning to her goddaughter with a smile. "Why can't you distinguish yourself by writing a play that will make us all proud of you, and at the same time swell the funds of ...
— The Little Colonel's Hero • Annie Fellows Johnston
... a woman named Lacombe, a cripple living with her goddaughter, who is a seamstress. There is no mistake, as ...
— A Cardinal Sin • Eugene Sue
... that contained Mlle. Moriaz's painting, expressing his regret that business had prevented his coming sooner. Mme. de Lorcy thanked him for his kindness, with rather a cool politeness, and asked him for news of her goddaughter. He did not expatiate ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez
... phenomenon of the perfect union of three persons; but finally the mysterious conjugal trinity appeared to them so rare and pleasing a spectacle, that if M. du Hautoy had shown any intention of marrying, he would have been thought monstrously immoral. Mme. de Senonches, however, had a lady companion, a goddaughter, and her excessive attachment to this Mlle. de la Haye was beginning to raise surmises of disquieting mysteries; it was thought, in spite of some impossible discrepancies in dates, that Francoise de la Haye bore a striking likeness to ...
— Two Poets - Lost Illusions Part I • Honore de Balzac |
