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He's coming up to have a talk with me to-morrow. 'It is quite a nice shop, said Randolph. 'I expect it has some of the College custom. I saw some books with the College crest on lying about. You can get painting things there, Alie, he added. Rosalys looked interested, and Biddy's face grew some degrees less long. 'Is there a toy-shop? she asked.
It wouldn't be quite a real tea, for we don't have real tea till past five, but I'm sure mother would get us some little cakes, and we might make it a sort of a feast. Biddy's eyes sparkled. 'Oh, that would be nice, she exclaimed. 'Yes, please, tell your mother I'd like to come very much. And just fancy, Celestina, that horrid Alie said it was very rude of me to have asked you to ask me.
'Don't you think we'd better walk on or take a run? 'Let's have a race, said Rough. 'The sand's nice and firm about here. I'll give you a good start, Alie, and Biddy can run on in front and wait till we call to her that we're off. Bridget trotted off as she was told, obediently. She did not care much for running. Her legs were short and she was rather fat, but she did not like to complain.
Will you not come farther in, Miss Vane? or, with a little hesitation, 'would you step into the parlour there is a nice fire and sit down for a few minutes? said Mrs. Fairchild to Rosalys. Rosalys began to thank her, but before she had time to do more than begin Bridget interrupted. 'Oh yes, Alie, please do, she said eagerly. 'I do so want to see what a parlour's like.
'There is one comfort in this house, inconvenient though it is in many ways, said Mrs. Vane, 'the chimneys don't smoke. And close to the sea as it is, one could scarcely have wondered if they had done so. If only it really does your father as much good as the doctors said, I am sure I shall get to like it. 'Yes indeed, Alie agreed. 'Mamma dear, won't you sit down and let me pour out your tea?
'You quite frightened her when she spoke, Bridget. Why did you glare at her so? 'I didn't glare at her; you're very unkind, Alie, to say so, said Biddy, in her complaining tone. 'Oh, I say, Biddy, don't be so grumpy, Randolph put in, 'and do fix what you're going to buy. There's something over here that papa would like, I know. A whistle, such a jolly strong one, and only two-pence.
One was tall and slight, with a fair sweet face a very lovely face, and one that no one loved and admired more heartily than did her younger sister. 'Alie dear, I do hope you've had a happy birthday, said Bridget sixteen-years-old Bridget! for Rosalys was twenty-one to-day. 'There are some birthdays one should remember more than others. A twenty-first birthday is a very particular one, isn't it?
'No, said Alie, 'I'd rather go along the road even if it's farther. Walking on sand is so tiresome, and spoils one's boots so. Biddy, I think you'd better walk quietly: remember what papa said, and you know you are rather unlucky.
Vane and Rosalys went into; a paper-hanger's for one, or rather a painter's, where wall-papers were sold; and an iron-monger's, where she bought two or three different kinds of small nails, tin tacks, and neat little brass-headed nails. Bridget stayed at the door of both these shops: she thought them not at all interesting, and mamma and Alie did not press her to come in.
Perhaps if I saw your doll-house and teeny-weeny dolls I'd get to like to play with them too. We have a Oh, Alie, as Alie, surprised at the length and apparent friendliness of the conversation proceeding between the two children, hastened up. 'Oh, Alie, isn't it funny? She's his little girl. The note's for her house. Rosalys turned her soft blue eyes full on Celestina.
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