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"Dear, good Marilda, I implore you to say nothing to put it into her head or Alda's. I don't think any harm is done yet, but it can't be anything. It can't come to good, and it would only be unhappiness to them all." "Oh, ah! well, I'll try. But what a chance it would be, and how happy it would make poor Alda!" "It can't be. The boy's mother would never let him look at her! Don't, don't, don't!"
At which Theodore, knowing no more than his own name and Alda's displeasure, set up a dismal howl; and as Wilmet chose to coax and fondle him into silence instead of scolding and turning him out, Alda went off in a huff, muttering about asylums and proper places; and Wilmet descended to the kitchen, the little weak hand clasped tight into hers.
There was a long mutual communication of grievances irritable speeches inattention from their elders fancies and complaints of Alda's enforced peremptorily by Wilmet appeals to Felix either quashed or unheeded; the strange thing was, in how short a time so much had managed to go wrong with them, except that they added the vexations of the last quarter to the present discomfort, real or fancied; and though they were both good children, each had the strong feeling that there was not as much encouragement as usual to goodness, and that it could not have been much worse if they had been seriously to blame.
He followed the lead. 'Nay; you were glad of Alda's prosperity? 'Oh yes; but poor Alda has been hindered from being like one of us, she said. 'We have fought it out together. And I should not mind so much if he were poor like us, and had to wait on his own account. 'I appreciate that, said Felix; 'but at least you will let the poor fellow come and judge for himself?
Underwood's sign Felix followed him into the sitting-room, to the great excitement of the exterior population, who unanimously accepted Alda's view, that one of them was going to be adopted. Their notion was not so much out as such speculations generally are, for Mr.
Then there were drawing-books for Cherry, and a knife of endless blades for Lance, and toys for the little ones; and dresses a suit for Wilmet like Alda's plainest Sunday one, and Alda's last year's silk for Geraldine, and some charming little cashmere pelisses Aunt Mary's special present to the two babies things that would lengthen Wilmet's purse for many a day to come; and a writing-case for Felix; and all the absent remembered, too.
Looking at their figures, Alda's air of fashion made her appear the eldest, and Wilmet might have been a girl in the schoolroom; but comparing their faces, Wilmet's placid recollected countenance, and the soberness that sat so well on her white smooth forehead and steady blue eyes, might have befitted many more years than eighteen.
'I never saw you like this, dear Alda, said Wilmet, low and gently, but in decided repression. 'Come into our room, and let me try to understand. So began a morning of mutual complaints, as if everybody were against everybody, agreeing in nothing but in appealing to the elder sister. First, there was Alda's story.
Yet her greeting to John Harewood was shy, tame, and frightened, compared with Alda's pretty graceful cordiality, as she told him that she was delighted, and envied Lance his powers of diplomacy.
'We think that this one, laying his hand on Alda's arm, 'will value these advantages, and is not quite such a home-bird as her sister. I hope you will find a grateful good child in Alda Mary, and a kind sister to Mary Alda.
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