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Updated: June 3, 2025
'If we begin at that work, said Annaple, 'it was I who brought you! I have often thought since it was rather selfish not to have consented to your helping poor Ursula with her heavy handful of a father!
She had made them very pretty and pleasant with her Micklethwayte furniture, whose only fault was being on too small a scale for these larger spaces, but that had been remedied by piecing, and making what had been used for two serve for one. The kitchen was on the same floor, close at hand, which was well, for Annaple did a good deal there, having only one young maid for the rougher work.
'Now eat this, without more ado, for that good Nuttie is going to set you down at Charing Cross. 'This is the way we spoil our husbands, Nuttie, said Mark. 'Refections served up at every turn. 'Only bones! The immortal pot au feu, said Annaple.
Nuttie, whose chief relaxation was in hearing all the pros and cons from May and Blanche, was asked to be one of the bridesmaids by Annaple, who had come over to the Rectory in a droll inscrutable state of mischief, declaring that she had exasperated Janet to the verge of insanity by declaring that she should have little umbrellas like those in the Persian inscriptions on her cards, and that Mark was to present all the bridesmaids with neat parasols.
Her letter certainly was fuller of interest, if shorter. 'My Dear Nuttie Blanche has no doubt told you all the externals. I suppose there never was a brighter wedding, for as Annaple keeps her mother with her, there was no real rending asunder of ties. Indeed I almost wish her excitement did not always show itself in laughing, for it prevents people from understanding how much there is in her.
'I am always trying to get John to bring it before the magistrates, but he only laughs at me, and nothing will induce Robinson to go the other way, because they have just been mending the road on Lescombe Hill! Annaple, my dear, I can't allow you another waltz; Mark must excuse you I am going. It is half-past two, and the carriage was ordered at two!
He met Nuttie in the vestibule, with her hat on, and in a great hurry, as she wanted to walk with Mary to the School of Art, Gerard Godfrey accompanying them as far as the office; and she did not at all like the being called to account, and asked what could have possessed her to take alarm. 'Why, you wrote yourself! 'To Annaple Ruthven. 'What am I supposed to have written?
'Oh yes, he is a fine fellow, and has never had anything amiss with him. 'Poor little chap! Doesn't know what he has lost! Well, Nannie, as they neared the house, 'do you want a tete-a-tete or to take him in to your mother? Here, I'll take the horse. 'Come to her at once, said Annaple; 'she wants to hear all, and besides she is expecting me.
Gerard began rather ruefully to take leave; but Annaple, in large-hearted happiness and gratitude, begged him to come and rest at the house, and wait for daylight, and this he was only too glad to do, especially as May's secession had made the conversation a little more personal.
Nothing was absolutely settled yet; Mark had been presenting himself at offices, and she had been seeing rooms and lodgings. 'The insurance office sounds the best, and would be the least shock to our belongings, said Annaple; 'but it seems to lead to nothing. He would not get on unless we had capital to invest, and even if we had any, you wouldn't catch us doing that again! 'Does Mr.
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