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For instance, he had three eggs for breakfast; two his landlady had supplied, good, but shoppy, and one was a delicious fresh goose-egg, laid, cooked, and served by his extraordinary will. He hurried off to Gomshott's in a state of profound but carefully concealed excitement, and only remembered the shell of the third egg when his landlady spoke of it that night.
He grasped immediately the situation. The shoppy parcel was bought with mother's money and only "pretended" to be from his sisters; the two small parcels were the very handiwork of the ladies themselves, the same having been seen by all eyes at work for the last six months, sometimes, indeed, under the cloak of attempted secrecy, but more often because weariness or ill-temper made them careless in the full light of day.
There was nothing shoppy in his demeanour now, even to Deb's prejudiced eye. The sisters walked up the nave to the altar, hand in hand. Deb passed the bridesmaid, Alice Urquhart, without a look her people had brought the young pair together, and were answerable for these consequences and similarly ignored those walking fashion-plates, Mrs and Miss Breen.
She had, although she did not as yet realise it, a difficult time before her. Helen and Mary advanced with their presents, laid them on the breakfast-table, and then retreated to watch the effect of it all. "Shall I now?" asked Jeremy. "Yes, now," said Helen and Mary. There were three parcels, one large and "shoppy," two small and bound with family paper, tied by family hands with family string.
There was a bond of sympathy between them that they could not account for. "Do tell me your name," whispered Miss Jennings at once. "It does sound so 'shoppy' to be always saying 'packer." She had opened her bag and taken out a cracker. It was evident that there was no time to be wasted in lunching. "Call me Faith, if you will. I should like to have you so much!
Morning chapel, the steady business of individual reading, the attendance on the selected courses of lectures, with the new experience of being spoken to, and expected to take notes like men; the walks and talks, which even with the interruptions of tennis and boating were apt to be academically shoppy; the very afternoon tea after evening chapel had an impressively scholastic flavour utterly foreign to the desultory proceedings of an ordinary family circle.
His interest was centred almost entirely in the "shoppy" parcel, which by its shape might be "soldiers"; but he knew the rules of the game, and disregarding the large, ostentatious brown-papered thing, he went magnificently for the two small incoherent bundles. He opened them.
He awoke at his usual hour and was pensive all through breakfast-time, wondering whether his overnight experience might not be a particularly vivid dream. At length his mind turned again to cautious experiments. For instance, he had three eggs for breakfast; two his landlady had supplied, good, but shoppy, and one was a delicious fresh goose-egg, laid, cooked, and served by his extraordinary will.
My hosts were working, or had worked for their daily bread with pen or paint, and their talk for the most part was of the shop shoppy that is to say, delightful. They extended a large hand of welcome, and were as brethren, and I did homage to the owl and listened to their talk.
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