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"In December 1861, accompanied by Lieutenant Cardew of the 67th Regiment, he made a tour on horseback to the outer Wall of China at Kalgan. A Chinese lad of the age of fourteen who knew a little English acted as their servant and interpreter, while their baggage was carried in two carts. In the course of their journey they passed through districts which had never before been visited by Europeans.
Cardew returned to the drawing-room, Mrs. Ward said, "My number of pupils is limited. You have seen for yourself that sisters are provided with a room together, and that girls who are not related have rooms to themselves. The house is well warmed in winter, and at all seasons of the year I keep it bright and cheerful with flowers and everything that a judicious expenditure of money can secure.
Cardew had given his wonderful news of the night before. There was a blaze of electric light, and this, judiciously softened with rose-colored silk, was most becoming to all those who came under its influence. But the strongest glare of light could not disfigure any one so absolutely beautiful as Aneta Lysle.
Then would follow a three-cornered conversation in rapid French, Howard and Anthony and Lily, with Mademoiselle joining in timidly, and with Grace, at the side of the table, pretending to eat and feeling cut off, in a middle-class world of her own, at the side of the table. Anthony Cardew had retained the head of his table, and he had never asked her to take his dead wife's place.
Cardew, "and I must speak out plainly even at the risk of displeasing you Cicely and Merry are exceedingly clever girls, but at the present moment they are very far behind other girls of their age. Their knowledge of foreign languages is most deficient.
All this talk about the nation, now " He settled himself on the edge of the pine table where old Anthony Cardew's granddaughter had been figuring up her week's accounts, and lighted his pipe, "the nation's too big for us to understand. But what is the nation, but a bunch of homes?" "Willy dear," said Lily Cardew, "did you take any money out of the cigar box for anything this week?"
It was then that Howard followed his father's example, and flung out of the room. After that Lily went, very deliberately and without secrecy, to the house on Cardew Way. She found a welcome there, not so marked on her Aunt Elinor's part as on Doyle's, but a welcome. She found approval, too, where at home she had only suspicion and a solicitude based on anxiety.
"The fact is there, I will have it out," said Merry "I'd give anything in the world to go to school." "What?" said Mr. Cardew. "Yes," said Merry, gaining courage as she spoke; "Molly and Isabel are going, and Aneta Lysle is there, and Maggie Howland is there, and I'd like to go, too, and I'm sure Cicely would; and, oh, father! I know it can't be; but you asked me what was the matter.
"Do you think I could learn how to talk? What I mean is, could I be taught how to say what is appropriate? I DO feel something when Mr. Cardew reads Milton to me. It is only the words I want words such as you have." "Oh, Mrs. Cardew!" Catharine came closer to her, and Mrs. Cardew's arm crept round her waist "I tell you again I have not so many words as you suppose.
But do you really wish me to consider the proposal of taking your girls when you hate school-life for young ladies?" Mr. Cardew could not help smiling. "Then you are not anxious to have them?" "Certainly not, unless you yourself and Mrs. Cardew most earnestly desire to send them to me. Suppose, before we go any further, that I take you over the house." "Thank you," said Mr.
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