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Updated: June 3, 2025
All this talk about the nation, now " He settled himself on the edge of the pine table where old Anthony Cardew's granddaughter had been figuring up her week's accounts, and lighted his pipe, "the nation's too big for us to understand. But what is the nation, but a bunch of homes?" "Willy dear," said Lily Cardew, "did you take any money out of the cigar box for anything this week?"
Cardew's face bent earnestly upon her. "I understand." Mrs. Cardew had lifted her eyes from the ground, on which they had been fixed. "I think," said she, "we had better be going." "We can go out by the door at the end of the garden, if you will go and bid the Misses Ponsonby good-bye." Mrs. Cardew lingered a moment. "I have bidden them good-bye," said her husband.
"I'm ready now to come downstairs," said Aneta; and they went down, to find supper prepared for them, and the old butler waiting to attend on his young ladies. After the meal was over the girls retired to the drawing-room, where they all three sat by one of the windows waiting for Mr. and Mrs. Cardew's return. Merry then said, "It is so funny of you, Aneta, to speak as though the school was Mrs.
Prizes were offered for the best gardens; consequently each cottager vied with the other in producing the most lovely flowers and the most tempting fruits. The village consisted entirely of Mr. Cardew's laborers and the different servants on his estate. There were, therefore, no hardships for the girls to witness at Meredith village.
They had been in the open country for some time, but now they were approaching the Cardew's Friendship plant. The furnaces had covered the fields with a thin deposit of reddish ore dust. Such blighted grass as grew had already lost its fresh green, and the trees showed stunted blossoms. The one oasis of freshness was the polo field itself, carefully irrigated by underground pipes.
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