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"It would look rather pretty here," said Mrs Atherley. "Don't you think?" I gave a great groan. "You you you're all wrong again," I said in despair. "You don't put a flame-flower in a place where you think it will look pretty; you try in all humility to find a favoured spot where it will be pleased to grow. There may be such a spot in your garden or there may not.
And it was very unpleasant for Edith, as Aunt Henrietta was extremely angry, because the wreath was her present, you know, and it was very expensive; and as to Parkins, poor dear, she was so vexed she positively cried. She said I was the most trying lady she had ever waited upon. She often says so. I am afraid it is true." "Not a doubt of it," said Atherley.
You have to be a very superior family indeed to have a flame-flower growing in your garden." They laughed. They thought I was joking. "Well, we're going to plant it now, anyhow," said Miss Atherley. "Come along and help us." We went out, six of us, Mrs Atherley carrying the precious thing; and we gathered round an old tree trunk in front of the house.
"I think, Sir George," said Charles, with the coldly impassive manner of a highly-trained servant "I think, Sir George, it must be Ann, the kitchen-maid, that you hear." "Indeed! and may I ask what Ann, the kitchen-maid, is supposed to be doing?" "If you please, Sir George, she is in hysterics." "Oh! why?" exclaimed Lady Atherley plaintively. "Because, my lady, Mrs. Mallet has seen the ghost!"
I forgot to pack up the bodice of my best evening gown, and Parkins says it is the only one I look fit to be seen in." "But, my dear Cecilia," said Lady Atherley, looking up from the work which she pursued beside a shaded lamp, "why did not Parkins pack it up herself?"
My memory was haunted that day by certain words spoken seven months ago by Atherley, and by me at the time very ungraciously received: "Remember, if you do come a cropper, it will go hard with you, old man; you can't shoot or hunt or fish off the blues, like other men." No, nor could I work them off, as some might have done. I possessed no distinct talents, no marked vocation.
"Is that all?" observed Atherley sardonically; "I thought he must have seen the ghost. By the bye, Cissy, did you see it?" "Yes," said Mrs. de Noël simply, at which Atherley visibly started, and instantly began talking of something else. Mrs. Molyneux was to leave by an afternoon train, but, to the relief of everybody, it was discovered that Mrs. Mallet had indefinitely postponed her departure.
"First, by never asking any questions," said Atherley promptly; "and then by a curious way he has of looking as if he was listening attentively to what was said to him, instead of thinking, as most people do, what he shall say himself when he gets a chance of putting a word in." "But how could Aunt Eleanour see the ghost when there is not any such thing?" cried Harold.
Mallet was so far right, that when, to settle the weighty question once for all, we adjourned in a body to the pink bedroom, we discovered that nothing less than the ceiling, or at least a portion of it, had fallen, and was lying in a heap of broken plaster upon the floor. However, the moral, as Atherley hastened to observe, was the same. "You see, Mrs. Mallet, this was what made the noise." Mrs.
So altogether he has not come to see us for a long time; but as he happened to be staying with the Mountshires, I begged him to come over for a night or two; so you will hear him preach on Sunday." At lunch that day Lady Atherley proposed that I should accompany them to Woodcote. "Do come, Mr. Lyndsay," said Denis. "We shall have cakes for tea, and jam-sandwiches as well."
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