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'Adela, eh? observed 'Arry. 'She's a cat. 'You mind your own business! returned his sister. 'So it is my business. She looked at me as if I wasn't good enough to come near her 'igh-and-mightiness. I'm glad to see her brought down a peg, chance it! Alice would not condescend to join her reprobate brother, even in abuse of Adela.
You have but to work; to read, to write, to study. In that respect, you men are more fortunate than we are. You have that which must occupy your thoughts." "And you, Adela ?" "Do not speak of me. If you are generous, you will not do so. If I have in any way seemed to speak of myself, it is because you have made it unavoidable.
"Please, spare those daisies," cried Emilia. "Why do you cut away daisies?" The gardener objected that he really must make the lawn smooth. Emilia called to Adela, who came, and hearing the case, said: "Now this is nice of you. I like you to love daisies and wish to protect them. They disfigure a lawn, you know." And Adela stooped, and picked one, and called it a pet name, and dropped it.
"I wish I could find a cat," sighed Phronsie, trying not to be so tired, and wishing the prickles wouldn't run up and down her legs so. "We've walked and walked, Grandpapa, and the shop wouldn't come, where it must be." "What kind of a cat is it you want?" asked Adela Gray. "It was just like Joey's," said Phronsie, turning her troubled blue eyes on Adela's face.
The mechanism began to be visible. People noticed the change in her and began to discuss it, and more than one of the "old guard" hit upon the reason of it. It became subtly known and whispered about that Adela Sellingworth was desperately in love with Rupert Louth.
Violetta smiled at the comedy she had been playing in, scarcely reproaching herself for not having imagined it. She proceeded to the point of business without further delay. Adela Sedley had nothing but a verbal message to deliver.
You told Alice you never dined out. 'I don't think I said that, Adela replied quietly. He paused; then: 'What fault have you to find with Alice, eh? Adela was not in the mood for evasions; she answered in much the same tone as she had used in speaking of Hubert. 'I don't think she likes me. If she did, I should be able to be more friendly with her. Her world is very different from ours.
"Well, this lady came down the stairs. I could see her where I sat, but she couldn't see me, it was so dark in the cell; and she called to her husband I guess he was her husband, because he looked so triste." Adela often fell into French, from being so long at the Paris school, and not from affectation in the least.
I was going to tell you one just now, only you don't seem to care to bear it. 'Yes, yes, I do! Alice exclaimed, recollecting. 'Is it something about Adela? He nodded. 'Wouldn't it delight you to go and get her into a terrible row with Dick? 'Oh, do tell me! What's she been doing? 'I can't quite promise you the fun, he replied, laughing. 'It may miss fire.
Adela broke away from her brother twice, and each time he fixed her to the spot more imperiously. At last she ran into the hotel; she was crying. "A bad economy of tears," said Laura, commenting on the dumb scene, to soothe her savage impatience. "In another twenty minutes we shall have the city gates locked." They heard a window thrown up; Mr. Sedley's head came out, and peered at the sky.
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