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She had suffered all the evening from observing Cecily, whose powers of conversation and charms of manner made her bitterly envious. How far she herself was from this ideal of the instructed and socially trained woman! The presence of a stranger had banished Cecily's despondent mood, and put all her capacities in display.
He could not utter what was really in his mind, and the charges he made against her were modes of relieving himself. Yet, as soon as they had once taken shape, these rebukes obtained a real significance of their own. Coincident with Cecily's disappointment in him had been the sudden exhibition of her pleasure in society.
She had a commonplace-book, as well as a Where Is It? an engagement-book, an account-book, a diary, a Daily Sunshine, and others with purposes too various to remember. 'Dearest mamma, she said, as I was departing, 'there is only one "p" in "opulence", isn't there? 'Yes, I replied, with my hand on the door-handle, and added curiously, for it was an odd word in Cecily's mouth, 'Why?
Mrs. Lessingham looked up. Cecily, who was standing before her, now met her gaze steadily. "The meaning of this is plain enough," said her aunt, with careful repression of feeling. "But I am at a loss to understand how it has come about." "I cannot tell you, aunt. I cannot tell myself." Cecily's true accents once more.
Cecily's judgment would have been thought weakly charitable by all the rest of the family. Mr.
Lessingham's quarters were in Rue de Belle Chasse, and the Elgars found a suitable dwelling in the same street. Their child was born, and for a few months all questions were postponed to that of its health and Cecily's. The infant gave a good deal of trouble, was anything but robust; the mother did not regain her strength speedily. The immediate effect of paternity upon Elgar was amusing.
These, with Amos Bell, alone knew the tradition, or understood what the discovery meant to the two Fordyces and three Winslows who stood at the opening of the vault, and prayed that whatever guilt there might be should be put away from the families so soon to be made one. The coins were placed with those of Victoria, which the next day Anne laid beneath the foundation-stone of St. Cecily's.
All the thanks he got was a furious look from Felicity, but Peg had not heard him and now she turned her attention to Cecily. "You look delicate. I daresay you'll never live to grow up." Cecily's lip trembled and Dan's face turned crimson. "Shut up," he said to Peg. "You've no business to say such things to people." I think my jaw dropped. I know Peter's and Felix's did. Felicity broke in wildly.
The tone of modesty seemed unaffected, and, as Madeline had reasons for trying to believe in Clifford Marsh, it gratified her to feel that here at length she might tread firmly and hold her own. The examination of the drawings proceeded, with the result that Cecily's original misgiving was strongly confirmed. What would Ross Mallard say?
"I saw a very nice chap I think the best of the lot," he began, with assumed jocularity; then, seeing Cecily's eyes suddenly fixed on him, he added, somewhat lamely, "the padre! There were also two women in a queer coach." "Donna Maria Amador, and Dona Felipa Peralta her daughter by her first husband," said Aunt Viney quietly.
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