"Goddaughter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... He inquired for a woman named Lacombe, a cripple living with her goddaughter, who is a seamstress. There is no mistake, as ...
— A Cardinal Sin • Eugene Sue
... conclusion, "was waiting for me, and brought me here as swiftly as he must carry me back again. But, you poor things! as for you, my Els, you have a firm nature, and if you insist upon refusing the invitation to our house, why, wait here to learn whether your father needs you. You, my little goddaughter Eva, are provided for. This sorrow, of course, will throw the veil over ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... Conservation, by the English economist, Nassau Senior, who had been brought into contact with a large number of distinguished men of different countries. In 1854, he first met in a salon the wife of the French painter Sebastien Cornu, who was a goddaughter of Queen Hortense and had been a friend from childhood of Louis-Napoleon. She had been able to render him many services when he was a prisoner at Ham, and they had maintained a confidential correspondence even after the Coup d'Etat, which almost interrupted ...
— Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 • William Walton
... clergyman. Classes are formed, and instruction and preparation given during the weeks preceding the day which the bishop has appointed. In England a noble English lady is as much concerned for her goddaughter through all this important period as she is for her daughter. In France the obligation is also considered sacred. We have known of a lady who made the journey from Montpellier to Paris—although ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood |
