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Updated: June 26, 2025
Robert Brownlow, who, glad as she must have been to be free of Bobus and able to recall her daughter, wept over her sister-in-law as if she had been going into the workhouse, with tears partly penitent for the involuntary ingratitude with which past kindness had been received. She was, as Babie said, much more sorry for Mother Carey than Mother Carey for herself.
He put her into a great carved chair, and knelt on one knee by her, saying, "Poor Rogers, I wish he had let it alone. It was hard for my mother and Cecil." "Then how could you go on and break all our hearts!" sobbed Babie. "It will make a better beginning for Cecil. I want them to learn to look to him.
They say he may go on with great care unless he catches cold, or sets the disease off again, and upon that he made up his mind that it was a very good thing he had not disturbed your peace." "As if I should not be just as sorry!" said Babie. "Oh, Sydney, what a sad world it is! And there is he going about as manful, and pleased, and merry about this wedding as if it were his own.
"He may have aimed at saving his country and coming out a glorious hero, like Gideon or Jephthah." "And would that have been self-seeking too, as well as the commoner thing?" said Babie. "It is like a bit of New Testament in the midst of the Old," said Armine. "They that are great are called Benefactors- a good sort of greatness, but still not the true Christian greatness."
Yet both looked as if smiles were no strangers to their lips, though there were lines of anxiety and sorrow traced round Mrs. Evelyn's temples. Their voices were sweet and full, and the elder lady spoke with a tender intonation that inspired Babie with trustful content and affection, but caused Janet to pass a mental verdict of "Sugared milk and water."
How is that dear Babie?" "Quite well. I left her walking with Lina in the Square gardens." "As simple and untouched as ever?" "As much as ever a light-hearted baby." "Ah! well, so much the better. And let me say, once for all, that you need not fear any closer intercourse with us.
And, as her face began to draw up with tears near the surface, he hugged her close, and consolingly whispered that now they would be together always, he should not have to go away from his own dear Babie Bunting, and there was a little kissing match, ending by Babie saying, disconsolately, "But you did like Eton so, and you were going to get the Newcastle and the Prince Consort's prize, and to be in the eleven and all -and you were so sure of a high remove!
Therefore she stayed at home and only sent her young people on a commission to bring her as many varieties of foliage and seed-vessels as they could, when Jock and Armine spent this first holiday of waiting in setting forth with Babie to get a regular good country walk, grumbling horribly that she would not accompany them.
Let me here express my warm gratitude for all the refreshments afforded by the friendships it commemorates, and which makes the name most truly appropriate. Babie, with eyes full of tears, was looking up to speak, when the carriage, having completed the round, again stopped, and Mrs. Evelyn came down, escorted by Cecil, with hearty thanks.
He is a good fellow, awfully kind, and I suppose he can't help being such a tremendous- " John hesitated, in deference to his father, for a word that was not slang, and finally chose "don." "Oh," sighed Babie, "Armie said in his note he was jolly beyond description."
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