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Arthuret was called away by the imperative summons to the butcher, she spoke more freely. 'Your mother looks terrified at being so routed up again. 'Oh, mother will be happy anywhere; and how can I stay with these stick-in-the-mud people, just like what I have read about? 'And have gibbeted! Really, Arthurine, I should call them very generous!
Arthurine, half her age, and a newcomer, was disliked for the pretensions which her mother innocently pressed on the world. Simplicity and complacency were taken for arrogance, and the mother and daughter were kept upon formal terms of civility by all but the Merrifields, who were driven into discussion and opposition by the young lady's attempts at reformations in the parish.
Bessie rejoiced that none of her own people were near to see the patronising manner in which Arthurine introduced her to Mr. Foxholm, a heavily-bearded man, whose eyes she did not at all like, and who began by telling her that he felt as if he had crossed the Rubicon, and entering an Arcadia, had found a Parnassus.
'Mrs Arthuret spoke of their going away for the winter; I do not think it will be a bad plan, for then we can start quite fresh with them; and the intimacy with the Myttons will be broken, though I am sorry for the poor girls. They have no harm in them, and Arthurine was doing them good.
'I do think it is very unfair, began Arthurine; but at that moment the door-bell rang. 'How strange at this time! 'Oh! perhaps the editor is coming here! cried Arthurine. 'Did you tell him I lived here, Miss Elmore? 'Admiral Merrifield, announced the parlour-maid. He had resolved not to summon the young lady in private, as he thought there was more chance of common-sense in the mother.
'Her article in the KENSINGTON. It attracted a great deal of attention, and she has had many compliments. 'Oh! the KENSINGTON MAGAZINE, said Mrs. Merrifield, rather uneasily, for she was as anxious that Bessie should not be suspected of writing in the said periodical as the other mother was that Arthurine should have the fame of her contributions. 'Do you take it? asked Mrs.
'You are surprised to see me at this time, he said; 'but Mrs. Rudden is perplexed by a communication from you. 'Mrs. Rudden! exclaimed Arthurine. 'Why, I only sent her word that I was too busy to go through her accounts to-day, and asked her to come to-morrow. That isn't against the laws of the Medes and Persians, is it? 'Then did you send her this letter?
'Mammy, you shall never hear the scales again, and you shall have the best Mocha coffee every day of your life. Bessie felt that after this she must like the sweet child, though sweetness did not seem to her the predominant feature in Arthurine.
Daisy and Pansy Mytton were, however, bright girls, and to them Arthurine Arthuret was a sort of realised dream of romance, raised suddenly to the pinnacle of all to which they had ever durst aspire. After meeting her at a great OMNIUM GATHERUM garden party, the acquaintance flourished.
'A whisper to you, Miss Merrifield they are going back with me, to be prepared for governesses at Arthurine's expense. It is the only thing for them in the crash that young man has brought on the family. 'Dear, good Arthurine! She only needed to learn how to carry her cup. MR. A. So, my dear good child, you will come back to me, and do what you can for the lonely old man!
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