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Thornburgh's 'high tea, that lady was seated in the vicarage garden, her spectacles on her nose, a large couvre-pied over her knees, and the Whinborough newspaper on her lap. The neighborhood of this last enabled her to make an intermittent pretence of reading; but in reality the energies of her house-wifely mind were taken up with quite other things.
"Have you any pain, Adela?" I asked. "No," she answered. "But you feel ill?" "Yes." "How?" "I don't know." And as she spoke, she tapped with one finger on the edge of the couvre-pied which was thrown over her, and gave a sigh as if her very heart was weary of everything. "Shall you come down to dinner with us?" "Yes, uncle; I suppose I must."
I do a tiny bit of dissecting now and then nothing very dreadful. I have nothing to-night of the least importance, so you need not shudder. I want to devote myself to you." Florence could not but own that it was nice to be waited on. The sofa made out of packing-cases was extremely soft and comfortable. Miss Franks put pillows for her guest's comfort and laid a light couvre-pied over her feet.
Thornburgh's 'high tea, that lady was seated in the vicarage garden, her spectacles on her nose, a large couvre-pied over her knees, and the Whinborough newspaper on her lap. The neighbourhood of this last enabled her to make an intermittent pretence of reading; but in reality the energies of her housewifely mind were taken up with quite other things.
Thornburgh woke up with a start, and stumbling over newspaper and couvre-pied, hurried across the lawn as fast as her short squat figure would allow, gray curls and cap-strings flying behind her.
Thornburgh woke up with a start, and stumbling over newspaper and couvre-pied, hurried across the lawn as fast as her short, squat figure would allow, gray curls and cap-strings flying behind her.
Anyway, go to bed. I'll wait for her ladyship." He returned to his arm-chair and his books, but soon drew Kitty's couvre-pied over him and went to sleep. When he awoke, daylight was in the room. "What has happened to them?" he asked himself, in a sudden anxiety. And amid the silence of the dawn he paced up and down, a prey for the first time to black depression.
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