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"It's an answer to an advertisement for a governess or waiting maid," she said, as 'Lina glanced carelessly at the superscription. "It will do no harm, or good either, I imagine," was 'Lina'a reply, and placing the letter in her pocket, she was about returning to her mother, when she spied Ellen Tiffton dismounting at the gate.
She went down straight into her sitting-room and waited there for Bunting, instead of going to the kitchen to clear up. And as she did so there came to her a comfortable recollection, an incident of her long-past youth, in the days when she, then Ellen Green, had maided a dear old lady.
She felt that she could not endure this reiterated suggestion of fineness, of consideration in him. She would betray herself betray what she did not even realize herself. She must force other footing and that should be the one of strife between the Jorths and Isbels. "No honest, I didn't, Miss Ellen," he rejoined, humbly. "I'll tell you, presently, why I came.
Aunt Ellen didn't seem to have any eggs to spare, so " she stopped, arrested by Mary's expression. "Maybe you don't sell eggs," she ventured. "Yes, we do," Mary contrived to articulate, "but I don't know I'm afraid " She broke off helplessly in the midst of the disjointed sentence and, raising her voice, called: "Eliza, is Jane there?" "She's upstairs.
By all that's crazy, Ellen, I'm just waking up to the fact that there isn't any place to put you, when there are patients in the house which there ever-lastingly are except the dining-room and kitchen! Lord Harry! what am I going to do? And what will you think of me? Dolt that I am!" He had heard her laugh before.
I infer that he has advised you of the condition of our joint business matters?" "Our estate is in your debt General," I said, "but I can now adjust that. We shall pay our share. After that, the lands shall be divided, or held jointly as yourself shall say." "Why could they not remain as they are?" He smiled at me. "Let me hope so." I turned to Ellen.
She stared and stared, till Ellen, catching the direction of her eyes, looked and stared too. Little 'Lias was CLEAN, preternaturally, almost wetly clean. His face was clean and shining, his ears shone pink and fair, his hands were absolutely spotless, even his hay-colored hair was clean and, still damp, brushed flatly back till it shone in the sun.
"We shall starve in the end, and you know I've been " Andrew stopped suddenly as he heard Ellen and his sister-in-law coming. He shook his head at his wife with a warning motion that she should keep silence. "Don't Eva know?" she whispered. "No, she came out early. Do for Heaven's sake keep quiet till after supper."
"Surely no children ever grew so fast as ours!" said Effie, after turning her little sister Ellen round and round, in the vain hope of persuading her aunt and herself that the little linsey-woolsey frock was not much too short and scant for the child. "Katie will need to have it, after all. But what can we do for Nellie?" And Effie looked sorely perplexed.
When the sun shone they sat down on a bank and ate their dinner; Pelle and Lasse Frederik vied with one another in performing feats of strength on the withered grass; and Ellen hunted for winter boughs to decorate the house with. On one of their excursions they crossed a boggy piece of ground on which grew willow copse; behind it rose cultivated land.
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