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"Yes," said Francie, greatly daring, "but how are you going to alter it, Uncle Timothy, without more men?" "Men!" said Timothy; "you don't want men wastin' the country's money. You want a Napoleon, he'd settle it in a month." "But if you haven't got him, Uncle Timothy?" "That's their business," replied Timothy. "What have we kept the Army up for to eat their heads off in time of peace!

I want to tell you something about myself, if I could flatter myself you'd take any interest in it." He had thrust the raised point of his cane into the low wall of the terrace, and he leaned on the knob, screwing the other end gently round with both hands. "I'll take an interest if I can understand," said Francie. "You can understand right enough if you'll try.

What my father allows, that's not for others to criticise!" Francie continued. She was frightened, extremely frightened, at her companion's air of tragedy and at the dreadful consequences she alluded to, consequences of an act she herself didn't know, couldn't comprehend nor measure yet.

The situation isn't exclusively ours but belongs to him as well, and we feel we ought to make it over to him in as simple and compact a form as possible. But I've liked you, Francie, I've believed in you, and I don't wish you to be able to say that in spite of the thunderbolt you've drawn down on us I've not treated you with tenderness.

"Well," said he, more thoughtfully, "what happened yesterday certainly involves responsibilities; but these haven't been assumed yet; and the nearest duty is the one to be considered. I don't know whether I shall tell Francie; I may, or I may not; but I am certain that if I do she will approve certain as that I am alive."

I came to call you damsels, and present my inquiries to Miss Prescott." "She will soon be all right! Francie and I are so proud of having had a real downright adventure." "I trust she will not be the worse, and will excuse me, and regard me as incognito."

But at half-past ten, when they returned, the young man had not appeared, and Francie remained only long enough to say "I told you so!" with a white face and march off to her room with her candle. She locked herself in and her sister couldn't get at her that night. It was another of Delia's inspirations not to try, after she had felt that the door was fast.

Opinions ranged from the lamentation of Aunt Juley to the outspoken assertion of Francie that it was 'a jolly good thing to stop all that stuffy Highgate business. Uncle Jolyon in his later years indeed, ever since the strange and lamentable affair between his granddaughter June's lover, young Bosinney, and Irene, his nephew Soames Forsyte's wife had noticeably rapped the family's knuckles; and that way of his own which he had always taken had begun to seem to them a little wayward.

And they're such fun." Aunt Hester sat down. Really, Juley had done it now! "She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered." "My dear!" said Aunt Juley, "what a peculiar way of putting it not very nice." "No, but what was she like?" persisted Imogen. "I'll tell you, my child," said Francie; "a kind of modern Venus, very well-dressed."

"Not of course at all!" replied Francie, who used a particularly expensive essence of gillyflower herself. "I can't think what we are about," said Aunt Juley, raising her hands, "talking of such things!" "Was she divorced?" asked Imogen from the door. "Certainly not," cried Aunt Juley; "that is certainly not." A sound was heard over by the far door. Timothy had re-entered the back drawing-room.