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The tame crow fluttered from the tree with a squawk and straddled awkwardly to the stump, scaring the robin into flight, and beating an inky wing against Belinda's whiteness. Belinda hit back viciously, but Becky flew over her head, and by several well-delivered nips sent the white cat mewing to the shelter of her mistress' arms.
"Trust to you!" said Lady Delacour, looking up eagerly in Belinda's face; "yes I think I may trust to you; for though a niece of Mrs. Stanhope's, I have seen this day, and have seen with surprise, symptoms of artless feeling about you.
Then she waked up the babies, tied on Belinda's shoe, collected the unhappy pigtails, and said they must all go home. Home! The very idea made her sick with fright. I don't suppose such a deplorable little procession was ever seen before.
The poem goes on to tell how Umbriel, a dusky melancholy sprite, in order to make the quarrel worse, flew off to the witch Spleen, and returned with a bag full of "sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues," "soft sorrows, melting griefs, and flowing tears," and emptied it over Belinda's head. She "Then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs.
There they were, sitting in a little circle close together, Arabella and Gabella Sarah fast asleep, with their heads in Belinda's lap; Isaphine crying; Tommy sitting a little apart, an evil smile on his face, in his hand a pair of scissors! "You naughty, naughty, naughty boy," screamed Mell, flinging herself upon him. With a howl of terror, Tommy started up and prepared to flee.
"Fondle me not," said Lady Delacour, starting back from Belinda's caresses: "do not degrade yourself to no purpose I never more can be your dupe. Your protestations of innocence are wasted on me I am not so blind as you imagine dupe as you think me, I have seen much in silence. The whole world, you find, suspects you now. To save your reputation, you want my friendship you want "
When Lady Delacour pulled off Belinda's mask, her face was, during the first instant, pale; the next moment, crimsoned over with a burning blush. "What is the matter with ye both? How he stands!" said Lady Delacour, turning to Mr. Hervey. "Did you never see a woman blush before? or did you never say or do any thing to make a woman blush before?
Belinda's habitually jolly face wore such a comical look of anxiety that Randy refrained from laughing, and to change the subject asked for a schoolmate whom she had not recently seen. "Where is Molly Wilson?" she questioned. "Oh, Molly is so hard at work now it's only once in a while that I see her. Her baby sister is ill, and Molly has no time for anything but helping around home.
Angry people, who express their passion, as it has been justly said, always speak worse than they think. This was usually the case with her ladyship. The morning after they arrived in town, she came into Belinda's room, with an air of more than usual sprightliness and satisfaction. "Great news! Great news! Extraordinary news! But it is very imprudent to excite your expectations, my dear Belinda.
'Yes, miss, he replied, clearing the table of some of the plates and dishes. I went on with my breakfast, eating as much as I could, for being what is called an 'old-fashioned' child, I thought to myself it might be some time before I got a regular meal again. Then I went upstairs, where, thanks to Belinda's turn-out of the day before, my room was already in order and the fire lighted.
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