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I've an old silver watch yonder I think it knows the way to the pawn-office by itself. There, now be off, for if I begin to think of all the fun you're going to, I shall just dress and join you. 'No, I'd not do that, said Dick gravely, 'nor shall I stay long myself. Don't go to bed, Joe, till I come back. Good-bye. 'Say all good and sweet things to Letty for me.
She sat silent and looked at her. Then spoke the spirit of truth in the scholar, for the teacher was too troubled to hear. She rose, and going up to Mary from behind, put her arm round her, and whispered in her ear: "Mary, why don't you ask Jesus?" Mary stopped short, and looked at Letty. But she was not thinking about her; she was questioning herself: why had she not done as Letty said?
Miss Letty Forrester, at whom Elsie had been looking from time to time in this fixed way, was conscious meanwhile of some unusual influence. First it was a feeling of constraint, then, as it were, a diminished power over the muscles, as if an invisible elastic cobweb were spinning round her, then a tendency to turn away from Mr.
"I thought Letty was a little girl who always stood at the head of her class, and who could run races with her brothers, and gather nuts, and be as nice as a boy. That was Frank's idea." "And so she can," said Ned. "And so she is," said Jem. "That was so long ago," said Violet, in confusion. It seemed ages ago to all the children. "And Violet has grown a great deal since then," said Jem.
"I am unwilling to grant that, Mr. Wardour. It was wrong in her to have anything to say to Mr. Helmer without your knowledge, and a foolish thing to meet him as she did; but Letty is a good girl, and you know country ways are old-fashioned, and in itself there is nothing wicked in having a talk with a young man after dark."
With a sudden clearness of vision Cissie realised what was happening in her sister's mind. All this tense scheming of revenges was the imaginative play with which Letty warded off the black alternative to her hope; it was not strength, it was weakness. It was a form of giving way. She could not face starkly the simple fact of Teddy's death. That was too much for her.
"We want very much to hear how it was that the Indians took you away from your family," said Rose; "you must tell Letty and me all about it." Robin passed his hand across his brow, as if trying to collect his thoughts. It was very evident that the circumstances were of a painful description.
Besides, in so far as Tom had been concerned, she could not bring herself, even without mentioning his name, to talk of him to his wife: there was no evil to be prevented and no good to be done by it. If Letty was ever to know those passages in his life, she must hear them first in high places, and from the lips of the repentant man himself! "I can not tell you, Letty," she said.
She was thinking of Miss Letty, who had "nerves," and of Miss Ann, who had a "heart"; and she pictured her own young, breezy, healthy self attempting to conform to the hushed and shaded thing that life was, within Lawyer Harding's home. "Thank you, but I'm sure they wouldn't," she objected. "You don't know how noisy I am." The lawyer stirred restlessly and pondered.
Aunt Letty did dislike Lady Desmond very much; but, nevertheless, she could not deny the truth of all this, and therefore it may be said that the visits of the countess to Castle Richmond were on the whole successful. And the month wore itself away also in that sad household, and the Fitzgeralds were gradually becoming used to their position.