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"Something else might be thought of, Lionel. I don't see why you and Sibylla should not come to old West's. The house is large enough; and Deb and Amilly couldn't object to it for their sister. In point of right, half the house is mine: West said so when I became his partner; and I paid my share for the furniture.
If Fred must depart in a week, why, they could be married in a week, he said. Sibylla was thunderstruck: Miss Deborah and Miss Amilly gave vent to a few hysterical shrieks, and hinted about the wedding clothes and the outfit. That could be got together in a day, was the reply of Dr. West, and they were too much astonished to venture to say it could not.
When I got there, Amilly said Sibylla was dressing; and a pretty prolonged dressing it appeared to be! Since I left her at Bitterworth's, I have been to Poynton's about my mare. She was as lame as ever to-day." "And there's Rachel out now, just as I am wanting her!" went on Mrs. Verner, who, when she did lapse into a grumbling mood, was fond of calling up a catalogue of grievances.
Then they put it away, and drew round the fire for a chat, their feet on the fender. A very short while, and they were surprised by the entrance of Jan. "My goodness!" exclaimed Miss Amilly. "It's never you yet, Mr. Jan!" "Why shouldn't it be?" returned Jan, drawing forward a chair, and sitting down by them. "Did you fancy I was going to sleep there?"
Sibylla glided up to her husband, nestling against him. "Lionel, tell me. Jan never would, though I nearly teased his life out; and Deborah and Amilly persisted that they knew nothing. You tell me." "Tell you what, my dearest?" "After I came home in the winter, there were strange whispers about papa and that Chalk Cottage.
A severe edict was issued against Courcelles, Lavardin, and Amilly, who had levied troops for the King in the province of Maine, and the commonalty were permitted to meet at the sound of the alarm-bell and to fall foul of all those who had held assemblies without order of Parliament.
"I think I'll go," she slowly said, apparently balancing some point in her mind. "If you do go, you should make haste and put your things on," suggested Miss Amilly. And Sibylla acquiesced, and left the room. "Has Mr. Jan been told that the tea's ready, I wonder?" cried Miss Deborah. Mr.
"Your legs will never be much the worse for the amount of work you do. Where's Mr. Jan?" "He went out to go to Hook's," replied Master Cheese, a desperately hard walnut proving nearly too much for his teeth. "He'll take a round, I dare say, before he comes in." Deborah returned indoors. Though not much inclined to reticence in general, she observed it now, saying nothing to Amilly.
Jan was at the wedding-breakfast, and the Misses West, in Master Cheese's estimation, ate like two sparrows: of course he had looked to be regaled with it at supper. Miss West cut him a large piece of cheese, and Miss Amilly handed him the glass of celery.
"I was not going to run away." "How did I know that?" said Jan. "It's my last night of fun, and when I saw YOU I said to myself, 'I'll be caught. How are old Deb and Amilly?" "Much as usual. Deb's in a fever just now. She has heard that Fred Massingbird's back, and thinks Sibylla ought to leave Lionel on the strength of it." John laughed again.
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