Juley

Aunt Juley covered her ears, too late, but Aunt Hester smiled; as for Nicholas, he pouted — witticism of which he was not the author was hardly to his taste.

In Chancery 2004

Aunt Juley sighed, and a lock of not quite her own hair came loose and straggled, so that Aunt Hester gave a little shiver.

In Chancery 2004

Aunts Juley and Hester, rather hurt that their presents had not received special mention — they forgot every year that James could not bear to receive presents, ‘throwing away their money on him,’ as he always called it — were

In Chancery 2004

“Juley!” cried Aunt Hester desperately, “ring tea!”

In Chancery 2004

Those ten, leaving out the four who had not married, and Juley, whose husband Septimus Small had, of course, died almost at once, had averaged from four to five per cent. for theirs, and produced accordingly.

In Chancery 2004

Juley, raising her hands, “talking of such things!”

In Chancery 2004

In a corner stood a large globe of that world never visited by Timothy, deeply convinced of the unreality of everything but England, and permanently upset by the sea, on which he had been very sick one Sunday afternoon in 1836, out of a pleasure boat off the pier at Brighton, with Juley and Hester, Swithin and Hatty

To Let 2004

Ann, Juley, Hester, Susan — quite a small child; Swithin, with sky-blue eyes, pink cheeks, yellow curls, white waistcoat — large as life; and Nicholas, like

To Let 2004

To wait in their black silks or satins for the Court to say that Hester might wear her dark green, and Juley her darker maroon.

In Chancery 2004

Aunts Juley and Hester were on their feet at once, trembling from smothered resentment, and old affection bubbling up, and pride at the return of a prodigal June!

In Chancery 2004