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But the boy had been commanded to bring him back, and to die sooner than lose him, so he replied: "It is the absolute wish of the Elder-Sister that you come with me." Li could not refuse, and followed the messenger. Once in Shih-niang's presence he stood still, sobbing mo-mo, mo-mo, without a word. "How is our plan going?" she asked.
It couldn't spring up here even if it wanted to." "If it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money." Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination.
She saw Katy meet them all pleasantly and sweetly, without a bit of the dictatorial elder-sister in her manner, and with none of her old, impetuous tone. And best of all, she saw the change in Katy's own face: the gentle expression of her eyes, the womanly look, the pleasant voice, the politeness, the tact in advising the others, without seeming to advise.
That elder-sister air of hers is so absurd, for she is not eighteen months older than I am; I can stand it well enough from Sophy, but from Hatty it really is too ridiculous. But that was nothing, compared with the insult she had offered, not so much to me, as through me to all womanhood. "Men don't like!" Does it signify three halfpence what they like?
She relapsed into a placid silence, looking at Rorie thoughtfully with her calm blue eyes. His travels had improved him. That bronze hue suited him wonderfully well. He looked more manly. He was no longer a beardless boy, to be patronised with that gracious elder-sister air of Lady Mabel's. She felt that he was further off from her than he had been last season in London.
Of course she had to tell what had happened that morning, and Rosemary and Shirley agreed that Mr. Oliver was "just as nice as nice could be." "Though I do hope, Sarah, this will teach you to let snakes alone," said Rosemary in the elder-sister tone she rarely used. "You frightened Aunt Trudy into fits and now you've upset a whole class.
But none the less he continued his vain search for three further days. Shih-niang was most anxious when she did not see her lover come back to her. She sent a little servant to look for him, and the child met Li by chance, and said: "Lord, our Elder-Sister awaits you at the house." In his shame, Li answered: "I have no time to-day. To-morrow I will come to see her."
Spying at windows, listening for voices, creeping hither and thither in torment of multiform ignominy, forcing speech when he longed to be silent, not daring to break silence when his heart seemed bursting with desire to utter itself a terrible time. And Irene persevered in her elder-sister attitude; she was kindness itself, but never seemed to remark a strangeness in his look and manner.
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