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Albinia meantime tapped at the library door. She knew Mr. Kendal to be there, yearning to forgive, but thinking it right to have his pardon sought; and she went in to tell him of his son's keen remorse, and deadly fear. Displeased and mournful, Mr. Kendal sighed. 'He has little to fear from me, would he but believe so! He ought to have come to me, but
Kendal nor Albinia could think of venturing their fragile son in the army, though assured that there was little chance that the 25th Lancers would be summoned to the east, and they would only hold out hopes of little Maurice by and by. Albinia's martial ardour was revived as she listened with greater grasp of comprehension to subjects familiar in her girlhood.
Algernon could not complain without making himself ridiculous, and Albinia was too much engaged to keep watch over her son, so that the persecution daily became more intolerable, and barren indications of wrath were so diverting to the little monkey, that the presence of the heads of the family was the sole security from his tricks.
Albinia tried to recover composure by reading the titles of the books. Suddenly, Lucy started and exclaimed, 'Come away. There he is! 'Why come away? said Albinia. 'I would not have him find me there for all the world. In all her vexation and dismay, Albinia could not help thinking of Bluebeard's closet.
'It must be a forlorn condition, said Albinia; 'he is above the other clerks, and he seems to be voted below the Bayford Elite, since the Polysyllable has made it so very refined! One never meets him anywhere now it is too dark to walk after the banking hours. Cannot we ask him to come in some evening? 'We cannot have our evenings broken up, said Mr. Kendal.
Sophy received a silver Maltese Cross, and little Albinia a perfumy rose-leaf bracelet. There was a Russian grape-shot for Maurice, and with it a letter.
The Bayford neighbourhood was unpropitious to holly, and Sophy and Genevieve had hardly ever seen any, except that Genevieve remembered the sooty bits sold in London. Something passed about sending for a specimen from Fairmead, but Albinia said that would not answer, for her brother's children were in despair at the absence of berries, and had ransacked Colonel Bury's plantations in vain.
How far she was at ease with him, Albinia sometimes doubted; there now and then was an air of greater freedom when he left the room, and some of her favourite old household avocations were tenderly resumed by stealth, as though she feared he might think them unworthy of his wife.
'You were up all last night, and many nights before, said Albinia; 'and all alone! Oh! why was I not here to help! 'Fred was a great comfort, said Mr. Kendal. 'I cannot describe my gratitude to him. And dearest He paused, and added with hesitation, 'I do not now regret the having come out alone. After the first disappointment, I think that my boy and I learnt to know each other better.
'But I gave him a dig in the nose, cried Maurice, in exultation; 'I pulled ever so much hair out of his whiskers. I had it just now. 'This sounds very sad, said Albinia, interrupting the search for the trophy. 'What were you doing in the painting-room? You know you had no business there. 'Why, mamma, little Awk wanted me to look at the pictures that Lucy shows her.
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