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And there, where the red curtains are drawn so snugly, are the boys and girls gathered round the fire, the flames lighting up Bridgie's sweet face and Esmeralda's stormy beauty? Oh, boys and girls, are you thinking of Pixie your own little Pixie? "How that child does snort!" muttered Ethel impatiently. "It seems to be our luck to have all the snorers in this room."
You say Barnes's wife is not. Ethel. We are like brother and sister, so I may talk to you. Barnes is very cruel to her. At Newcome, last winter, poor Clara used to come into my room with tears in her eyes morning after morning. He calls her a fool; and seems to take a pride in humiliating her before company.
"What a dear he is to me," she thought. As time went on this companionship grew so natural to them both that more than once Ethel felt in herself a content which made her a little uneasy. As in his blunt kindly way Joe drew closer to her now, she had an awkward consciousness of being in her sister's place. No, not that exactly. Still, she did not care to think of it. She kept out of Amy's room.
"But I say I want to be near the British Museum." "Take a season-ticket, and run up once a week." "I shall teach your boys to smoke!" "I'll see to that!" "You have given Cocksmoor one lift," said Ethel, "and it will never go on without you." "It is such a nice house!" added the children, in chorus; "it would be such fun to have you there."
ETHEL VAUGHAN-SAWYER, speaking before the Fabian Women's Group, in 1910, said: "Fortunately, after the first two or three months, most children will thrive equally well when artificially fed, so long as the milk is good and reliable, and is properly prepared." All of our facts go to disprove this statement.
Spriggs; "if he does, we must try and get rid of 'im; and, if he won't go, we must tell Alfred that he's been to Australia, same as we did Ethel." His wife smiled faintly. "That's the ticket," continued Mr. Spriggs. "For one thing, I b'leeve he'll be ashamed to show his face here; but, if he does, he's come back from Australia. See? It'll make it nicer for 'im too.
'I cannot tell, he said; 'I only know she was there; and then rising and standing beside Ethel, he continued 'Miss May, you remember the night of her death? 'Easter Eve? 'Well, continued he, 'that night I saw her. 'I remember, said Ethel, 'that Mr. Wilmot told us you knew at once what he was come to tell you.
Vince, after pondering for a moment, admitted that it might be a good idea. "You will come to church with me to-morrow," said Ethel. "And if she is there we'll ask her." And so Samuel was on hand, trembling with excitement, and painfully conscious of his green and purple necktie.
The next day brought an exquisite baby's cap with Fanny's card tucked inside. And in the fortnight after that, Fanny herself came several times. She talked in such a natural way, and her smile and the look in her clever grey eyes was so good-humoured and friendly. "She's doing it beautifully," Ethel thought. But she pulled herself up. "Doing what beautifully? What do I mean?
Poor Ethel, who had been persuaded to venture a shilling to please Blanche, who had spent all her own, obtained the two jars in potichomanie, and was regarding them with a face worth painting.
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