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When it is understood that honey held in Avice's cookery and diet the place that sugar does in ours, the necessity of remedying this mistake will be seen. Sugar was much too expensive to be used by any but wealthy people. The robes provided for Agnes and Avice are the sole imaginary items in this account. Sendal was a very thin silk.
The mother was holding the daughter's hand; she took Pierston's, and laid Avice's in it. No more was said in argument, and the thing was regarded as determined. Afterwards a noise was heard upon the window-panes, as of fine sand thrown; and, lifting the blind, Pierston saw that the distant lightship winked with a bleared and indistinct eye.
I daresay some of that went for it that is, for as much of it as got paid for." That sum would now be equal to about two hundred and sixteen thousand pounds. It never came into Avice's head to doubt whether the Jews had crucified little Hugh. Such charges were often enough brought against them when those who called themselves Christians wanted an excuse for stealing the jews' money and jewels.
There was a light till one o'clock last night in the room where Avice sleeps with Charley and the dog; and I scarcely saw either of the Oxford sisters or Jane all this morning till dinner-time, when Pica appeared very appropriately to her name, turned out in an old black silk dress left behind by her mother, and adorned with white tulle in all sorts of folds, also a pretty white bonnet made up by Avice's clever fingers, and adorned with some soft gray sea-birds' feathers and white down.
Ay, she was, so! Where art thou going, Emma?" "I thought of looking in on Aunt Avice, Father. Are you and Eleanor coming, too?" "I'm not," said Eleanor. "I'm going to see Laurentia atte Gate. So I'll wish you good even." She kept straight on, while Dan and Emma turned off for Avice's house.
She could tell her beads, I suppose; but would she know what they meant?" For Bertha, like everybody else at that time, thought it necessary to keep count of her prayers. Prayer, in her eyes, was not so much communion with God, as it was a kind of charm which in some unaccountable way brought you good luck. "Beads would have meant nothing to her but toys," was Avice's reply.
Hearing people about among others the before-mentioned married couple quarrelling, the woman's tones having a kinship to Avice's own he returned to the house. Next day Somers roamed abroad to look for scenery for a marine painting, and, going out to seek him, Pierston met Avice. 'So you have a lover, my lady! he said severely. She admitted that it was the fact.
The next morning he proceeded to do this. When he encountered Avice there was a trace of apprehension on her face; but he set that down to a fear that she had offended him the night before by her taciturnity. Directly he requested her mother, in Avice's presence, to get her to fix the day quite early, Mrs. Pierston became brighter and brisker.
The whole party, taking the cue from outraged parenthood, treated him icily when he emerged from one of those subterranean galleries with that tender sprig of girlishness. That is, we were icy until, on the way up, he remaining in the depths, Avice's dear mother began to rebuke the thoughtless minx for her indiscretion of strolling through the earth with a working person.
When the boy had gone Jocelyn retraced his steps to the last lamp, and read, in Avice's hand: 'MY DEAREST, I shall be sorry if I grieve you at all in what I am going to say about our arrangement to meet to-night in the Sandsfoot ruin.
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