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Kester was a soldier in India, not actually unsteady, but not what her own brothers had been, and Edward was a midshipman, too much of the careless, wild sailor. Easy-going John Harewood's lax discipline had not been successful with them in early youth, and still less had later severity and indignation been effectual. "I am glad you kept Anna," said Mrs.
Indeed, the unusual gravity and reserve of the younger sister struck Cherry's observant eyes, and made her think at first that she had been much pained by having to part with Lance in his weak half-recovered state; but when at tea-time the whole history of the illness was inquired into in detail by the assembled family, the downcast eyes and cheeks with which Robin encountered every mention of Captain Harewood's good offices led to the inference that she had in her excitement forgotten the bounds where the brook and river meet, and was in an anguish of shame; Wilmet meantime looking flushed with the fag of her vexatious day, and speaking plentifully of this same Captain, proving to herself all the while that she was doing so with ordinary gratitude and composure.
But by some extraordinary influence whether it were the oddity of William Harewood's face, or the novelty of his perfect insouciance in the household whither care had come only too early some infection seized on the young Underwoods, and before the end of the evening meal, if the 'goings on' were not equal to those in the precincts, they were, at any rate, not far short of it.
O Sister, Sister, Sister, don't ever go away any more. There was a great deal of confused kissing and embracing as she made her way upstairs. 'But oh, my Tedo, what has happened? for she beheld a fine sample of Bill Harewood's violet eye. 'It was Bernard's stick went into his eye when we were playing at hockey, said Stella. 'He did cry terribly, but Sister Constance put such nice stuff
There was a consultation over this letter, which ended in John Harewood's volunteering to go to Genoa, and find out this Menotti or his representative, returning in time for the wedding, and hoping that the uncertainty would thus be over in time for the enjoyment of a truly prosperous event. A letter that came before his departure rendered Geraldine doubly anxious for the decision. Mrs.
It was almost time for Harewood's train, which made it all the more strange. Mr. Audley tried to reassure her by the probability that the whole party were convoying him to the station, and would appear when he was gone; but time confuted this pleasing hypothesis, and Cherry's misery was renewed. She even almost hinted a wish that Mr. Audley would go out and look for them.
"Besides," said Lance, "the 'Pursuivant' is more exacting, and the printing Will Harewood's books has brought in more business " "But how about space? We could squeeze, but can you?" "We have devoured our two next-door neighbours. There's for you!
'The month. Our birthday is on the 19th. And the coincidence gave all the foolish delight such facts do under the circumstances. 'Was this long before she died? asked Wilmet. 'The last day of that August. You never saw her brass in the cloister? 'No; I never guessed that you were not Mrs. Harewood's son, though I wondered at your being so unlike the rest.
'I never heard such sermons as Mr. Harewood's either; it seems as if I had never listened before, but these go right down into one. I cannot leave off thinking about the one last Sunday, about "making manifest the counsels of all hearts." I see now that I was not as much justified in not consulting Aunt Jane about Kalliope and Alexis as I thought I was, and that the concealment was wrong.
Harewood's impromptu merry-makings had afforded plenty of practice to the two choristers; even Clement had had a certain school-feast training; and Felix, with a good ear, ready eye, and natural ease of movement, acquitted himself to Miss Knevett's eagerly expressed admiration. 'Take care, Master Ratton will be jealous, said Edgar, as he claimed her for the next dance, a quadrille.
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