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When Gertrude got past the hair-ribbon age, and Halsey asked for a scarf-pin and put on long trousers and a wonderful help that was to the darning. I sent them away to good schools.
Well, there won't be any more. You'll never give me one that's one comfort! said Gertrude, wriggling herself up, and flinging an arm round Ethel's neck. 'As long as you don't do that, I'll do anything for you. 'Not for me. 'Well, you know that, you old thing! only you might take it as a personal compliment.
Once come to a distinct consciousness of her situation, however, and Miss Patty Pace conducted herself with all the elegant politeness for which she was remarkable. Suffering a thousand regrets at the trying experience her own clothes had sustained, she expressed nearly as many fears lest Gertrude had ruined every article of her dress.
Sigismund and Gertrude returned to the ordinary world just as Mrs. Milton- Cleave was saying good-bye to the hostess. She glanced at them searchingly. "Good-bye, Gertrude," she said a little coldly. "Did you win at tennis?" "Indeed we did," said Gertrude, smiling. "We came off with flying colours. It was a love set."
"Fair mistress," he said gallantly, "hast thou nothing to ask? These good citizens have all had their word to say. Am I not to hear the music of thy voice also?" Gertrude, startled and abashed, dropped her eyes, and knew not what to say; but something in the King's glance compelled an answer of some kind, and a sudden inspiration flashed upon her.
Under the able leadership of Gertrude Gerrish, the interest shown, the enthusiasm awakened, and the progress achieved, is something remarkable. "Thus prepared, the members find themselves on a higher mental and spiritual plane of existence, where they can appreciate the possibilities, of what may be accomplished by true motherhood, as a regenerator of society.
Gertrude said nothing; she sat looking at the dahlias and the currant-bushes in the garden, while Felix went on with his work. "To 'enjoy," she began at last, "to take life not painfully, must one do something wrong?" Felix gave his long, light laugh again. "Seriously, I think not.
Moreover, Gertrude, who was quite herself again, having made her peace with the Cheviots, and endured the reception of her apologies, seized on him to lay plots for a Christmas-tree, for the delectation of Dickie on his sofa, and likewise of Margaret Rivers, and of the elite of the Cocksmoor schools.
"Please don't appeal to me," Susan managed to say without lifting her eyes from the blurred page before her. She had been more than once on the point of telling Gertrude and Tom what she knew about Mr. Falconer that it was her house he had rented for his friend, etc. But everything about the matter was so indefinite.
As Gertrude White walked back to her home her heart was filled with bitterness. She had caught sight of the ostentatious placard; and she knew that the photograph of the creature who was figuring there was in every stationer's shop in the Strand.
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