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"But," continued the vicar, smiling, "she has no matrimonial designs on you at present. She is only twelve years old, my little girl Clemmy." "Clemmy! she is your daughter? I did not know that. I very gratefully accept your invitation." "I must not keep you longer from your amusement. The sky is just clouded enough for sport. What fly do you use?"
He saw two young forms bending over the counter, examining the contents of a glass case. One of these customers was Clemmy; in the other there was no mistaking the slight graceful shape of Lily Mordaunt. Clemmy was exclaiming, "Oh, it is so pretty, Mrs. Somers! but," turning her eyes from the counter to a silk purse in her hand, she added sorrowfully, "I can't buy it.
Somebody dropping from the wall, it sounded like, said Britain. 'Are they all abed up-stairs? 'Yes, all abed by this time, she replied. 'Didn't you hear anything? 'No. They both listened, but heard nothing. 'I tell you what, said Benjamin, taking down a lantern. 'I'll have a look round, before I go to bed myself, for satisfaction's sake. Undo the door while I light this, Clemmy.
As it was, it was with a frown and a touch of his old impatient asperity that he stepped to the threshold of an adjoining room and called, "Clemmy!" Clementina appeared at the door. "There's that man Grant in the parlor. What brings HIM here, I wonder? Who does he come to see?" "Who did he ask for?" "Me, but that don't mean anything." "Perhaps he wants to see you on some business." "No.
"It will be a long time before they will ever wish to rival us in that game which Miss Clemmy is now forming on the lawn, and in which England has recently acquired a European reputation." "I don't take you. What game?" "Puss in the Corner. With your leave I will look out and see whether it be a winning game for puss in the long-run."
I dressed the arrowroot, and am I not Fairy? I have just got such a pretty note from Clemmy, Mr. Emlyn, asking me to come up this evening and see her new magic lantern. Will you tell her to expect me? And, mind, no scolding." "And all magic?" said Mr. Emlyn; "be it so." Lily and Kenelm had not hitherto exchanged a word. She had replied with a grave inclination of her head to his silent bow.
But they all agreed that in the midst of them sat, quite at his ease, an individual with a pipe in his mouth, and a jug of beer at his elbow, who nodded condescendingly to Clemency, when she stationed herself at the same table. 'Well, Clemmy, said Britain, 'how are you by this time, and what's the news? Clemency told him the news, which he received very graciously.
Lily lifted up her head with a bewitching stateliness, and added gravely, "I was offended." "Mrs. Braefield is very kind," said Mrs. Cameron; "she asks us to dine the day after to-morrow. You would like to go, Lily?" "All grown-up people, I suppose? No, thank you, dear aunt. You go alone, I would rather stay at home. May I have little Clemmy to play with?
Chillingly," said she, somewhat abruptly. "How it must please you to give such pleasure! Dear little Clemmy!" This artless praise, and the perfect absence of envy or thought of self evinced by her joy that her friend's wish was gratified, though her own was not, enchanted Kenelm. "If it pleases to give pleasure," said he, "it is your turn to be pleased now; you can confer such pleasure upon me."
If I had read more of the past, had more subjects of interest in the dead whose history it tells, surely I should be less shut up, as it were, in my own small, selfish heart? It is only very lately I have thought of this, only very lately that I have felt sorrow and shame in the thought that I am so ignorant of what other girls know, even little Clemmy.
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