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"What do you do with yourself all day, Minky?" "Nothing much. Read work play tennis with Mr. Sutcliffe." "Mr. Sutcliffe?" "Never mind Mr. Sutcliffe. Mark doesn't want to hear about him." "Is there a Mrs. Sutcliffe?" "Yes." "Does she play?" "No. She's too old. Much older than he is." "That'll do, Mary." Mamma's eyes blinked. Her forehead was pinched with vexation. Her foot tapped on the floor.
And for a moment I really lost heart; I acted like a tenderfoot instead of a Cantonist. I was ready to cry; my tears were choking me, as if I were mamma's only darling. It was about a two hours' walk to the sergeant's. When I arrived there, I stood outside and waited for him. Then I thought I heard the sound of some not unfamiliar voice: arguments, expostulations, again arguments.
She put on the child a pretty frock that Bartley liked, and when she had dressed her own tumbled hair she went down stairs, feigning to herself that they should find him in the parlor. The servant was setting the table for breakfast, and the little one ran forward: "Baby's chair; mamma's chair; papa's chair!" "Yes," answered Marcia, so that the servant might hear too. "Papa will soon be home."
"You must affect confidence, if you have it not even gayety. I warn you not to be shocked at my conduct. I must keep up mamma's spirits, and to do it I must play indifference or confidence, and you must be careful to say nothing, to do nothing, to excite her suspicions." Kate's cab had driven off, and the two girls walked through Lafayette Square into Pennsylvania Avenue to get another.
Her only pleasure was in wandering over the fells, whence she could see the tops of the Derwentwater mountains, and from some points a glimpse of blue Bassanthwaite flowing out into the open; where mountain-tarns, lying like silver plates in the purple distance, were her magic shows, seen only in certain lights, and more often lost than found; whence she could look over the broad Carlisle plain and dream of that day on the North Aston moor when she first met Edgar Harrowby; and whence the glittering strip of the Solway against the horizon made her yearn to be in one of the ships which she could dimly discern passing up and down, so that she might leave England for ever and lay down the burden of her life and her sorrow in mamma's dear land.
It wasn't much fun, as you may imagine, but I got through the afternoon, and kept the house still, and at dusk crept into Mamma's room and softly built up the fire, so it should be cheery when she waked.
'Fondness prevailed, mamma gave way, Kitty at heart's desire Obtained the chariot for a day, And set the world on fire!" "I am sure it must have been very inflammable," says mamma. "So it was, my dear, twenty years ago, much more inflammable than it is now," remarks the Colonel. "Nonsense, Mr. Lambert," is mamma's answer.
Mortimer had been absent about a week, and Marten was still in ignorance of the weakness of human nature, at least as far as he was himself personally concerned, when one morning Reuben came running to him in great distress, to say that the doves were missing his mamma's own pretty birds that she loved so much; and Reuben, whose tears were somewhat too ready, began to cry, for he feared, poor child, the cat had eaten them, or some other misfortune equally distressing had befallen them.
The note was very short, and was indeed dictated by the elder lady, with some dispute, however, as to certain terms, in which the younger lady had her way. It was as follows: DEAREST FRANK, I wish you to see Mrs. Finn, who, as you know, was dear mamma's most particular friend. Please go to her, as she will ask you to do. When you hear what she says I think you ought to do what she advises.
By and by mamma's carriage came along the dusty road, and passed through the iron gateway, which we had left open for her reception. We shouted down to her and R , and they waved their handkerchiefs upward to us; and, on my way down, I met R and the servant coming up through the ghostly rooms. The rest of the day we spent mostly in exploring the premises.
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