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'You will go with me, entreated Lady Delmar, holding Alice's hand; and the one hastily consigning Nuttie to her aunt's care, the other giving injunctions not to alarm her mother to Annaple, who had declared her intention of walking home, the two ladies went off under Mr. Egremont's escort.
But what business have you two to be so inconveniently alike? You are as bad as the twin Leslies! 'There's an old foremother on the staircase in white satin who left her looks to us both, said May. 'You'll have to wear badges, said Annaple. 'You know the Leslies were so troublesome that one had to be shipped off to the East Indies and the other to the West.
Indeed I am afraid yes, I am ashamed to say it falls more on my dear wife than myself, but if we can only wear through a year or two we shall get a further rise, and my poor Annaple may get out of this drudgery.
'No! said Annaple when they were gone, 'he will not cry like the kloarek in the Breton ballad who wetted three great missals through with his tears at his first mass. He is very good, I am sure, but he is a bit of a prig! 'It is very hard to youth to be good without priggishness, said Mr. Dutton. 'Self-assertion is necessary, and it may easily be carried too far.
Nearly the whole of the hind wheels and most of the door had disappeared on one side, and, though more was visible on the other, it was impossible to open the door, as a mass of rubbish lay on it. Annaple was on this side, and her voice was heard calling to May in fits of the laughter which is perhaps near akin to screams "London bridge is broken down, Dance o'er my lady Lee!"
Annaple had thanked the men, and bidden them come to Lescombe the next day to be paid for their assistance. Then they all stood to watch Mark ride through the river, at the shallowest place, indicated both by her and the labourers. It was perfectly fordable, so Annaple's were mock heroics when she quoted 'Never heavier man and horse Stemmed a midnight torrent's force.
'My father, incited by poor Gregorio. Oh, Annaple! don't let any one guess till we know how my father will take it. What is it, Ellen? as the nursery-maid appeared on the stairs. 'If you please, ma'am, Mrs. Poole would be glad if you are coming up to the nursery.
'I am sorry for your disappointment, said her aunt quietly, 'but I am old-fashioned enough to be glad that such strong respect and feeling should be shown for your dear mother. I wish Annaple had spoken to me before asking you, and I would have felt the way. 'I'm sure it is not want of feeling, said Nuttie, as her tears broke forth.
It was of the modified aesthetic date, but arranged more with a view to comfort than anything else, and by the light of the shaded lamp and bright fire was pre-eminently home-like, with the three chairs placed round the hearth, and bright-haired Annaple rising up from the lowest with her knitting to greet Mr. Dutton, and find a comfortable lair for Monsieur.
Nuttie was almost infected, though somewhat hurt. 'Who said I was horrid? she asked. 'Nobody! Nobody but me Annaple Ruthven and they'll all tell you, May and all, that I'm always putting my foot in it. And I never meant that you were horrid you yourself you know only 'Only nobody wanted us here, said Nuttie; 'but we could not help it. 'Of course not. It was shocking, just my way.
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