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Anna-Felicitas, who was slow, found it difficult ever to be clever till about the week after, and Anna-Rose, who was impetuous, was so impetuous that she entirely outstripped her scanty store of cleverness and landed panting and surprised in situations she hadn't an idea what to do with. The Clouston Sacks, now Aunt Alice had said, "You must take care to be very tactful with Mr. and Mrs.
"Can you please tell us how to get there?" asked Anna-Rose, still distant, but polite, for she too very much wanted to know. "But don't tell us to ask the Captain," said Anna-Felicitas, even more earnestly. "No," said Anna-Rose, "because we won't." The man laughed.
"You've forgotten to turn out the light," whispered Anna-Felicitas, her eyelashes still wet from her late attack; and stretching her neck still further down till her face was scarlet with the effort and the blood rushing into it, she expressed a conviction to Anna-Rose that the human freight behind the curtains, judging from the suspicious negativeness of its behaviour, had no business in their cabin at all and was really stowaways.
The background, she could not but perceive, was a very odd one for their pleasantest day for months a rolling steamer and a cold wind flicking at them round the corner; but backgrounds, she pointed out to Anna-Felicitas, who smiled her agreement broadly and instantly, are negligible things: it is what goes on in front of them that matters.
Twist, "that we haven't very much liked all you've done for us and the way you were so kind to us on the boat, we've been most obliged to you, and we shall miss you very much indeed, I know." "But we'll get over that of course in time," put in Anna-Felicitas, "and we've got to start life now in earnest." "Well then," said Mr.
Anna-Felicitas hadn't ever violently loved anybody yet, and seeing Anna-Rose like this now about Mr. Twist made her wonder when she too was going to begin. Surely it was time. She hoped her inability to begin wasn't perhaps because she had no heart. Still, she couldn't begin if she didn't see anybody to begin on.
"I'd like to do that," he said boldly. And added, "As it's the opening day." "I don't think it would afford you any permanent satisfaction," said Anna-Felicitas placidly. "There's nothing really to be gained, we think, by kissing. Of course," she added politely to Mrs. Bilton, "we like it very much as an expression of esteem." "Then why not in that spirit " began Mr. Twist.
He was beginning to perceive this motherliness in him himself, and he gazed through his spectacles at Anna-Felicitas while she sketched the rise and fall of the follower, and wondered with an almost painful solicitude what her fate would be in the hands of the Clouston Sacks. Equally he wondered as to the other one's fate; for he could not think of one Twinkler without thinking of the other.
Twist hadn't shaved before looking-glasses for nothing, and he was very distinctly aware that Elliott was extremely attractive. "It's not time yet to talk of husbands," he therefore hotly and jealously said. "On the contrary," said Anna-Felicitas gently, "it's not only time but war-time. The war, I have observed, is making people be quick and sudden about all sorts of things."
Twist continued to look at her in silence. "We didn't come to America to be on anybody's mind," said Anna-Rose, supporting Anna-Felicitas. "We had a good deal of that in England," said Anna-Felicitas. "For instance, we're quite familiar with Uncle Arthur's mind, we were on it so heavily and so long."
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