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‘It would simply solve everything,’ cried Amoret, ecstatically. ‘Whenever Theodore was disagreeable, off I’d go to my other one and yet without feeling I was neglecting him, as he could go to his other one.
"Maybe she will be a wit, for she will never be a beauty, but the other little one will come on in due time after Amoret." "Your Ladyship will find Amoret a dear, good, affectionate child," said Aurelia. "Only " "Reserve that for nurse, so please you, my good girl. It is enough for me to see the brats on their good manners now and then. You have had other recreations shall I call them, or cares?
‘It’s no good, girls,’ said Miranda, suddenly. ‘It’s no good duogamy’s off! Think of the servants!’ ‘Horrors, the servants!’ said Isolda, blankly. ‘Yes, I was afraid you would soon find out the one weak spot,’ said Amoret, regretfully. ‘Of course it would be awful having to cope with two lots of servants.
‘The cul-de-sac of all reforms!’ said Amoret, tragically. ‘It’s impossible to suggest any revision in the marriage system that isn’t instantly quashed by the children complication.’ We all sat silent, busy with our thoughts, and then Isolda shuddered. ‘Duogamy’s no good,’ she said emphatically, ‘and I am so disappointed!’
‘I was waiting for one of you to mention the Romans,’ interposed Amoret, who for all her frivolity has a certain humorous shrewdness of her own. ‘It’s an invariable feature of all discussions on marriage.
Jumbo grinned, bowed, and withdrew, Fay running after him, for she had made friends with him during her days of solitude, being a fearless child, and not having been taught to make a bugbear of him. "The soot won't come off," she said. Aurelia had not a moment to herself till Fay had said the Lord's prayer at her knee, and Amoret, with much persuasion, had been induced to lisp out
They no doubt regarded Miss Delavie and the little Waylands as interlopers at Bowstead, and their withering glances made Church-going a trying affair indeed the first time that Aurelia took little Amoret, they actually drove the sensitive child into a sobbing fit, so that she had to be carried out, begging to know why those ladies looked so cross at her.
Amoret looked ready to cry, but at a sign from their young instructress, they backed and curtsied, and their mother reviewed them; Letitia was the most like the Delavies, but also the smallest, while Amoret was on the largest scale and would pair best with her brother, who besides loudly proclaimed his preference for her, and she was therefore elected to the honour of being taken home.
Ere many days had passed Aurelia had drifted into what would now be regarded as the duties of a nursery governess to her little companions. Fay and Amoret were always with her, and depended on her for everything. Jenny Bowles, with a sort of animal jealousy, tried to monopolise her charge, Letitia.
Yet there were sweet chains in the little hands that held her gown, and in the thought of the lonely old man who depended on her for enlivenment. The day was long, for Amoret was missed; and the two children were unusually fretful and quarrelsome without her, disputing over the new toys which Brother Amyas's guinea had furnished in demoralising profusion.
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