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Lady Mary is a mere manoeuvrer, that no straightforward person could like; and Miss Nugent is a mere handsome wax figure, with such clever machinery inside, that she can literally say the words, "mamma thaith." I have heard of a doll who could say "mamma," but she is still cleverer. 'Colonel Vaughan bit his lips, knit his forehead, but smiled. 'You are severe upon your neighbours, Freda.
I never thaw any one in my life I like tho much, except Rowland Prothero. He ith younger. Mamma thaith 'There again, Wilhelmina! 'I forgot you are tho quick, Freda. Don't you like Colonel Vaughan? 'Pretty well sometimes. 'What a colour you have, Freda. You thouldn't draw tho much. I with I had a tathte for drawing. Colonel Vaughan drawth tho well!
'But, do you know, I don't admire him half ath much ath Mr Rowland Prothero. Mamma thaith he ith tho gentlemanlike and that the meanth to athk him Tuethday. 'Really! again said Freda, not daring to look at Miss Hall. 'We are going to Llanfach to-morrow to hear him preach. Hith thermon wath beautiful in the school-room. Don't you think he ith like the picture at the beginning of "Evangeline."
Dear me, who wath he, Freda? 'Longfellow, you mean, I suppose. 'Of courth. And hith language ith tho poetical. Mamma thaith the thouldn't wonder if he turned out a great author by-and-by. Thould you, Mith Hall? 'It takes so much to make a great author, dear; but it is just possible. 'But not probable, whispered Freda. 'Oh, Freda! don't you like him?
I am glad he is going to marry that pretty Gladys. When they arrived at home they found the party from Abertewey ready to receive them, at least, Mrs Gwynne Vaughan and her children. The colonel was to join them at dinner. 'Oh, Freda, dear, I am tho glad you are come home again! lisped Mrs Gwynne Vaughan. 'Tho ith Gwynne. He thaith it will be delightful to have you.
'Mamma thaith, began that young lady, 'that the colonel ith the motht accomplithed and agreeable man in Waleth. 'How can she tell that? asked Freda, with feigned surprise. 'There are so many clever men in Wales. I assure you we are a talented race. 'I am thure of that, Freda; but I think the Englith are more thinthere; mamma thaith tho.
'Tho do I, Gwynne; the ith very nice, tho kind to the children, and not tho thatirical to me as the uthed to be. I uthed to be afraid of her, but I am not now, at all. Don't you think thatirical people very dithagreeable? I hope Winnie won't be thatirical, don't you? Mamma thaith 'Never mind what she says, my dear. I hope Freda will come.
'Thweetly pretty, Gladyth ith, I never thought tho much of her before, lisps Mrs Vaughan. 'Tho interethting the looked in that dreth, the one the wath married in, my maid thaith. 'I was obliged to call at the farm myself, to induce old Prothero and his wife to come, says Mr Gwynne, 'Freda wished it so much; I cannot say I did: you see it was rather awkward.
I am thure you ought; he managed everything tho nithely for you yethterday. Mamma thaith Ah! there is Colonel Vaughan coming up the drive. Miss Hall looked across at Freda, and remarked that she began to draw most industriously, and did not glance out of the window as Miss Nugent did.
'What can his drawing well have to do with your drawing? 'He would look over my drawing then ath he doth yourth, Freda. He thaith you are very clever. But you mutht be nearly five-and-twenty, Freda; and he thaith no woman ought ever to be more than twenty-one, 'When did he favour you with that remark? I think I once heard him say twenty-five was the most charming age of all.
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