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Hamlin. He is so stern and cold that he would never forgive me if he knew of all this, although I am doing nothing wrong. It is very humiliating to be placed in this position, but now that the mischief has been done we shall have to pay for the gown and set it all down under the head of bitter experience." Mrs. Wilson regarded Barbara steadily while she was speaking.
You have, no doubt, decided the best plan is to leave your headstrong sister alone?" "We did agree about something like that," said Hyslop coolly, although when Cartwright fixed his eyes on his he turned his head. "We thought if Barbara were given an allowance, she might, for example, stay with the Vernons. Grace's notion " Cartwright's mouth got hard and his mustache bristled.
And it hurt him now as it had hurt him then; hurt the more, perhaps, because Barbara did not know because her attitude was instinctive.
Thus: "Katharine, easy-chairs were not meant for little girls to lounge in." "Oh, Papa says he doesn't want one always to sit upright and stupid." So Lady Barbara was left to suppose that Mr. Wardour's model attitude for young ladies was sitting upon one leg in an easy-chair, with the other foot dangling, the forehead against the back, and the arm of the chair used as a desk!
When he felt his way back to wakefulness in the morning, there was a subconscious sense that something important had happened; a moment later he remembered with a pang that he and Barbara had said good-bye. He jumped up and rang for his shaving-water, though it was not yet seven.
There was some one stirring in the private chapel as he passed, but he paid no heed; in former days many people from the neighbourhood prayed here frequently. He found no one in the Blombergs' home except the father. Barbara would certainly return immediately, the old man said. She had gone down to the chapel a short time before.
There was something in Wilmot's lowered brows, a certain jerking, broken quality in his utterance, that was new to Barbara that at once frightened her a little, and caused her heart to beat with a sort of wild triumph.
Marcus had expected to hear Hatty answer in her usual hasty way, and he was quite surprised to see that she did not seem at all angry, and now had no unkind remarks to make about Aunt Barbara.
No one would have expected Armine, always regarded as the most religious of the family, to be the most dismayed, and neither he nor Barbara could detect how much of the spoilt child lay at the bottom of his regrets; but his little sister's sympathy enabled him to keep from troubling his mother with his lamentations.
Her head swam round with delight and suspense, and she could hardly gather up the sense of the words in which Lord de la Poer was telling Lady Barbara that Adelaide's birthday was to be spent at the Crystal Palace at Sydenham; that the other girls were gone to the station with their mother, and that he had come round with Adelaide to carry off Kate, and meet the rest at ten o'clock.
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