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Avory took his hand in hers and clung to it; and then, comforted, she had dried her eyes at last, and gone back to the little hotel again. Toffy saw the whole scene quite plainly before him now. The little whitewashed inn with the hill behind it, the moonlit water of the bay, and the tide coming rolling in across the wet sands.
Avory, in her own sad, tearful way, had fought very bravely against poverty and loneliness and unhappiness, and that she loved Toffy with her whole heart. But why, now that things seemed to be arranging themselves in a satisfactory manner, should Toffy be in the blues, and lie awake during the greater part of the hot nights?
Please expect me by the three o'clock train. The letter, as usual, had not been posted in time to reach him in the morning, and Toffy realized almost with a sense of disaster that to-morrow was now to-day, and that it was too late to write and expostulate or to suggest to Mrs. Avory how unwise her visit would be.
It was worth while taking a midnight ride for such a good fellow, although he had had a very fair notion of what was in one of the letters, and entirely disapproved its contents. The last mail had brought news that Horace Avory was ill, and Peter knew quite well that Toffy had written to Mrs. Avory.
Avory at all; it was Mrs. Amory." "Oh, I don't take much count about m's or v's," said Kink. "It began with a big 'A, and it ended in 'ory, and that was good enough for me." "Kink," said Janet, "you're a dear. You've given us the most beautiful holiday." Hester suddenly turned pale. "Mother!" she exclaimed, "what about the twenty-five sovereigns?" "Yes," said Robert, "that's awful!"
Avory is not going to die he 's the strongest man I know, and he can't be much more than forty years old! How does she think it is all going to end? Don't you see how absurd the whole thing is? She's seven years older than Toffy, so that even if she could marry him it would not be the best thing for him. Oh, I know she has behaved well, and worked hard!
'When you are ill, Kitty, I intend to come and read good books to you. 'Mrs. Avory encouraged the canon, said Kitty. 'I found out afterwards that she had read the story before, and yet she gave a sort of surprised giggle at everything. 'The Wrottesleys are being awfully good to her, said Jane excusingly.
Most children have wanted to fly ever since "Peter Pan" began, and, as I dare say you have heard, some have tried from the nursery window, with perfectly awful results, having neglected to have their shoulders first touched magically; but Gregory Bruce Avory wanted to fly in a more regular and scientific manner. He wanted to fly like an engineer.
"Now you," said Mr. MacAngus to Jack Rotheram. "I am not an Avory," said Jack. "I am Mary's brother. I am twelve. I am going to Osborne next year." "Very sensible of you," said Mr. MacAngus. "And you, sir," he added to Horace Campbell, "the burglar's friend." "My name is Horace Campbell," he replied. "I am the son of the Vicar of Chiswick. I am nine. I am also the Keeper of the Tin-opener."
Runciman, who had not only been the nurse of all the Avories, but of Mrs. Avory before them, when Mrs. Avory was a slip of a girl named Janet Easton. Runcie was then quite young herself, and why she was suddenly called Mrs. no one ever quite knew, for she had never married. And now she was getting on for sixty, and had not much to do except sympathize with the Avories and reprove the servants.
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