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Bell further aggravated her dislike; she was so old and invalidish now that her memory sometimes failed. The morning after the children's arrival, she spoke to Lydia. "Lydia, that was Mercy's voice I heard just now in the passage." "Mercy is dead," answered Lydia, contracting her brows in pain. "But, Lydia, I did hear her voice." "She is dead, Mistress Bell. That was another child."
The guests were four a Mrs. Bevis and her three daughters all invalidish persons, the mother somewhat lackadaisical, the girls with a look of unwilling spinsterhood.
But the Master was a far more strenuous companion. With him, there were no diversions, none! no relief from the breathless adventure of trying to please him and doing one's best. The Rector once, being a little invalidish, allowed me to make up the fire, and, after watching the process sharply, said: "Good! Does it drive you distracted, too, when people put on coals the wrong way?"
She rather liked two invalidish maiden ladies from Boston and went shopping with them sometimes and to see the pictures in the Louvre. But the Misses Byron were quite delicate and took their Paris in dainty sips. Milly was far from sharing her husband's distrust of all things French, but she supposed being a man and having been there before he must know Paris.
The folding chairs he lent to any lady that he came across and liked or who seemed tired and invalidish on the ship. And so, guarded against his heart and, having his niece with him, he went round the world.... He wasn't obtrusive about his heart. You wouldn't have known he had one.
Percival was a victim to invalidish habits, it fell to Madeline to act as executive committee. But they need not have troubled themselves about delicacy, for Miss Lena greedily gobbled everything that was offered to her, with pretty expressions of gratitude, to be sure, but internal irritation because the donors were not more lavish.
It was high summer, bright and glowing, and so dry, and even the invalidish sisters, Lady Henry Gray and Miss Adeline Mohun could not object to the sitting out on the lawn, among the dragon- flies, as in days of yore. Much of old thought and feeling was then and there taken up again, and it was on one of the last evenings of the visit that Mr.
"I just want to know one thing," continued Miss Fitzroy. "When does your brother-in-law arrive?" "Not till to-night." "That's the only nice thing I've heard to-day," sighed Fanny Fitz. The judging went no better for the grey filly than might have been expected, even though she cheered up a little in the ring, and found herself equal to an invalidish but well-aimed kick at a fellow-competitor.
The time before Winton came was all so faint Betty, toys, short glimpses of a kind, invalidish man called "Papa." As in that word there was no depth compared with the word "Dad" bestowed on Winton, so there had been no depth in her feelings towards the squire. When a girl has no memory of her mother, how dark are many things! None, except Betty, had ever talked of her mother.
It would go from one man to another with a lighter or heavier touch, which always left its mark behind, staggering some, knocking others over for a time, leaving this one, returning to another, so that all of them had now an invalidish aspect and a hunted, apprehensive look in their eyes; while Ransome and I, the only two completely untouched, went amongst them assiduously distributing quinine.
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