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It set me thinking so that when Ada was asleep, I still remained before the fire, wondering and wondering about Bleak House, and wondering and wondering that yesterday morning should seem so long ago. I don't know where my thoughts had wandered when they were recalled by a tap at the door.
The characters in the comedy were creatures of flesh and blood to the author, and they come out boldly, therefore, on the stage. Marian Lea is a woman of the Rosalind order handsome, noble, magnanimous, unconventional, passionate in nature, but sufficient unto herself, humorous, playful, and radiant with animal spirits. Ada Rehan embodied her according to that ideal.
The glass runs, in reality, only for twenty-eight seconds, as two are considered to be employed in turning it. Ada, who enjoyed an advantage over the reader, by having the operation performed before her eyes, answered that she clearly understood it, and would always, in future, hold the glass.
Here, at all events, was an accusation he could repel with dignity, with truth. Foolish and unlucky he had been and how unlucky he still hoped Matilda might never learn but false he was not; and she should not be allowed to believe it. "Miss Parkinson," he said, "I've been badgered long enough. What is it you're trying to bring up against me about your sister Ada?
The little man, who was a distinguished officer named Captain Butler, of the West Bromwich, had a very good time of it, dancing with Ada when Captain Clayton was not doing so. "The greatest brick I ever saw in my life!" it was thus Captain Butler afterwards spoke of Edith, "but Ada is the girl for me, you know."
The park was beautifully silent, and still stood open to the public. Absorbed in his reflections, therefore, he left the main track and wandered down one of the by-paths, in which stood several wooden benches. Big Ben struck the half-hour. There was just time for another cigar, and Leroy sat down. He was in no humour yet to endure the heat of the theatre, or the chaff and vulgarity of Ada Lester.
Mohun said she looked very neat, Phyllis liked her because a mischance to her frock was not so brave an offence with her as with Rachel, and Ada was growing very fond of her, because she was in the habit of bestowing great admiration on her golden curls as she arranged them, and both little girls were glad not to be compelled to put away the playthings they took out.
"It's done me good to talk to you, mother," she said, "because now it doesn't seem, when I put it outside myself, that there's very much of anything to worry about." Ada has always been like that she seems to get rid of her troubles just by telling them. Now she had passed her riddle on to me, and I could not keep Peggy and her affairs from my mind.
As the curtained door swung behind them, Jasper Vermont, alias Mephistopheles his scarlet costume now changed to ordinary evening dress, and covered with a long black domino, similar to that which Ada had donned shot a sharp glance after them; then, with a sinister smile, he left the room by another exit, and made his way into the grounds.
But oh! that the handkerchief had been less grimy with which she mopped her eyes, as she spoke of the happy days that were gone! Gillian saw that poor Aunt Ada was in an agony to get away, and hurried out her questions for fear of being stopped. 'How was Kalliope -was she at home? 'Oh no, poor Kally, she is the best girl in the world.
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