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Jacinth and Frances Mildmay are walking home from school, carrying their little bag of books. For Saturday is a whole holiday no going to school that is to say so, naturally, some lessons must be learnt at home for Monday. 'Aren't you glad to think to-morrow's Saturday, Jass? said Frances. 'If only Aunt Alison would let us stay in bed half-an-hour later on Saturday mornings, it would be nice.
Then, too, she could say that she had seen me, just after the wreck, with a young woman from the murdered man's car, and thus probably bring Alison West into the case. It is not surprising, then, that I ate little. The woman across seemed in no hurry to go.
Alison, who had been sitting on the floor shedding tears now and then, rose slowly, walked to the window, and looked out. She was feeling half stunned. She was by nature a very bright, happy girl. Until this moment things had gone well with her in life. She was clever, and had carried all before her at the Board school. She was also pretty, and, as Grannie expressed it, "genteel."
If it irks you that I remind you of it, do not give the blame to me." "I shall blame you for being tedious, by your leave." Alison yawned. "Wait till all's told. Well, ma'am, I left Tetherdown with Colonel Boyce, and we rode posthaste to Newhaven. He was there joined by some half-dozen fellows, low fellows to my eye.
How hard a part that was, in the situation of that family, none knows better than myself; nor yet with how little colour of justice a man may there acquire the reputation of a tyrant and a miser. The fourth person in the house was Miss Alison Graeme, a near kinswoman, an orphan, and the heir to a considerable fortune which her father had acquired in trade.
Meanwhile, Sergeant Bothwell began to put the test-oath with such a degree of solemn reverence as might have been expected, being just about the same which is used to this day in his majesty's custom-house. "You what's your name, woman?" "Alison Wilson, sir." "Oh, whisht, mither, whisht! they're upon a communing Oh! whisht, and they'll agree weel eneuch e'enow."
He had once heard his nurses Alison and Grace gossiping together of a great service of gold the King had given her, and which, when it had been on exhibition, had made the people so angry that they had said they would like to see it melted and poured down her throat. "If he must give it," they had grumbled, "he had better have bestowed it upon Madame Ellen."
No one desirous of making up his mind on this point will fail to consult, on one side of this question, the very able "Observations" which have just appeared from the pen of Dr Alison, and to which, without adopting all the writer's views, we have great pleasure in directing attention, as to a most powerful and temperate argument in favour of an able-bodied Poor Law.
Never had Isobel seemed more desirable; never had I longed as I longed now to take her in my arms. The tension of that silence becoming insupportable: "You will not stay here alone?" I asked in an unnatural voice. Isobel, without looking up, shook her head. "I am going to Mrs. Wentworth my Aunt Alison," she replied. "Good," I said. "I am glad to know that you will be in her cheery company." Mrs.
D'you remember how discouraged G.-A. Alison was about our levity especially mine? She once said bitterly that I was like the ell-woman hollow because I laughed in the middle of the Bible lesson.
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