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"It's not that, thank you," said Babie, laying her head on the kind shoulder, "for I don't think it was my fault; but mother will be so sorry for her key. It is the key of her davenport, and father's picture is there, and grandmamma's, and the card with all our hairs, and she will be so sorry."
There was a continual performance, endless as a Chinese tragedy, of Spenser's Faery Queene, in which Elfie was always Gloriana, and Armine and Babie were everybody else in turn, except the wicked characters, who were represented by the cabbages and a dummy. "Reading was horrid," Elvira said, and certainly hers deserved the epithet.
Therewith Babie rushed downstairs with "He's coming, Mother Carey," and darted out at the house door to welcome Mr. Ogilvie at the gate, and lead him in in triumph, attended by her two brothers. The two ladies laughed, and Carey said, with a species of proud apology "Poor children, you see they have been used to be noticed by clever men." "Mr.
"Babie," ordered Armine, who was devouring his breakfast at double speed, "if you'll put on your things, I've the garden donkey-cart ready to take down the flowers. You won't expect us to luncheon, mother?" Barbara, though obedient, looked blank, and her mother said "My dear, if I went down and helped at the Church till half past twelve, could not we all be set free?
I never can go back to him; he said I was a burden and a curse, and wished I never had been born!" "What has happened, Babie? We are your friends. Tell us, and let us comfort and protect you if we can."
"Well, run now and put your own corners tidy," suggested their mother. "If Jock does not stay in the playground, he will come back in a quarter of an hour." "And Mr. Ogilvie will come then. I invited him," said Babie. At which Carey laughed incredulously; but Janet, observing that she must go and see that the children did not do more harm than good, walked off, and Mary said
Babie did not like it, but she well knew that she should be contemptuously put down if she attempted an inquiry, far less a remonstrance, with Janet. Only, with a puzzled sort of watch-dog sense, she sat up in bed and stared. "Why don't you lie down?" said Janet. Babie did lie down, but on her back, her head high up on the pillow, and her eyes well open still.
"Tell him what, my dear?" as the girl hung on her, and dragged her into the ante-room. "What is the matter?" "If it is nonsense, he ought not to have made it so like earnest," said Babie, all crimson, but quite gravely. "You don't mean- " "Yes, mother." "How could he?" cried Caroline, in her first annoyance at such things beginning with her Babie. "You'll tell him, mother.
"Oh no, Armie, you know we are one. Though perhaps a mere story like that is not worthy to do such work. Yet I think there must be something in it, as Duke cared for it." "That would be proof positive but for the author," said Armine, smiling; "but poor Allen's attempts have rather daunted my literary hopes." "I really believe Allen would write better sense now, if he tried," said Babie.
Her dark hair was strained back from a face not calculated to bear exposure, and was wound round a silver arrow. Elfie shook with laughter, murmuring "Oh dear! what a fright!" in accents which Miss Ogilvie tried to hush; while Babie observed, as a sort of excuse, "Janet always is a figure of fun when she is picturesque."
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