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"The child had run away from her nurse and was scrambling down some rocks when she caught her, it seems, and Floyd, coming up just that moment, insisted she had saved Cecil's life. Very dramatic, wasn't it? And Cecil is quite idiotic over her. I think she would make an excellent nursery governess. She is just out of a convent, and has no manners, really, but is passable as to looks.
The time of examinations had come, and night after night the dining- table of the little parlour was littered with the sheets of foolscap which were to test the progress of the pupils throughout the term. Cecil's older forms had been studying The Merchant of Venice, Richard the Second, and the Essays of Elia; the younger forms, Tanglewood Tales and Kingsley's Heroes.
When Rosamond reached home she found Anne beside her mother-in-law, provided with a quire of note-paper and pile of envelopes. "My dear, I want your help," she said. "Till my accident I always had a children's party at Christmas; and now I have so many young people to manage it for me, I think we might try again, and combine it with Cecil's ladies' party, on Wednesday." "Hurrah!" cried Rosamond.
I know about a hundred men to whom that description might apply. Could you think of anything more definite?" Claire ruminated in her turn; recalled the image of Cecil's lover, and tried to remember the details of his appearance. "He has very thick hair, and brushes it straight across his forehead. His eyebrows are very short. He has a high colour, quite red cheeks."
Rolleston left, it was arranged that Bluebell was to make her first essay in governessing on Freddy Rolleston, her Sundays to be spent as often as possible with her mother; and ere another week had passed, she and her effects were transferred to the Maples. A bed was made up for her in a little room of Cecil's and the tuition of Freddy carried on in the nursery; for Mrs.
'No, it's my visit this time. Sara held fast to her friend. 'It's for me to say what we're going to talk about. 'It's got to be alligators! said Cecil, waving his arms. 'It shan't be alligators! I want to know more about Doris. 'Doris! Cecil's tone implied that the human intelligence could no lower sink. 'Yes. I expect you like her better than you do us.
Cecil told him all, from beginning to end, and added that life was over for him, as far as all pleasure and excitement went; and, in short, said what we have all said, and had said to us in our time, after a great disappointment in love; which the Doctor took for exactly what it was worth, although poor little Cecil's distress was very keen; and, remembering some old bygone day when he had suffered so himself, he cast about to find some comfort for him.
The Queen is to 'hold Bothwell, because 'while she hath him, he will even be the canker of her estate and safety, and the writer has 'seen the last of her good days and of ours after his liberty. On which accounts, Cecil is not to be deterred from doing what is right and necessary 'by any fear of after-revenges' and 'conjectures from causes remote, as many a stronger instance given- -will prove, but 'look to the present, and so 'do wisely. There is no real cause for Cecil's fear.
Inclination clamoured in favour of such a course. It would be so much easier: it would obviate the necessity for a lacerating interview. Would it not be easier for Cecil, also? Claire felt that if positions had been reversed, she would crave above all things to be alone, hidden from the eyes of even the most sympathising of friends; but Cecil's nature was of a different type.
John Florio, who knew the humours of his day, represents this in a dialogue in Second Frutes. So does Robert Greene in Greene's Mourning Garment. What were at first the personal warnings of a wise man to his young friend, such as Cecil's letter to Rutland, grew into a generalized oration for the use of any traveller.
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