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Half to her for the extra cost you'd be to the housekeeping; the other half for pocket-money for you and Sibylla. I think you might make it do, Lionel: my share is quite two hundred a year. My own share I mean; besides what I hand over to Miss Deb, and transmit to the doctor, and other expenses. Could you manage with it?" "Jan!" said Lionel, from between his quivering lips. "Dear Jan, there's "
Ruby, neglected, with a jam-smeared face the flustered maid, tousled, grubby, her frock gaping the horrible hall, with its imitation-marble paper and staring linoleum the prim, trivial, unaired, unused drawing-room, with its pathetic attempts at elegance Deb inwardly curled up at the sight of these things as things now belonging to the family.
"Deb was just a little trot of a thing her father's idol; he wouldn't allow her mother to correct her the least bit, though she was a wilful puss, with a temper of her own; ruled the house, she did, just as she does now. If she hadn't had such a good heart, she'd have grown up unbearable. There never was a child in this world so spoiled. But spoiling's good for her, she says.
I am not in the least bitter against him; he was as he was made just as I am. It had to be, I suppose. The maker of the puppets didn't care whether we belonged or not; the hand that pulled the strings, and tangled them, jerked us into the mire together anyhow " "Oh, don't!" pleaded Deb. "Don't blaspheme like that!
He returned from his winter haunts sooner than his wont, while still the April winds were full of menace for him, exposed himself to those winds seeking her, caught a chill, neglected it a most unusual thing and fell into an illness that confined him to his bed for many weeks. It was not until June that Deb heard of it.
I set off, fancying that I should have no difficulty in finding my way, but I wandered about for a couple of hours or more before I succeeded in getting back to Mr Butterfield's house. Aunt Deb received me with a frown. "Now where have you been all this time?" she asked. "I've had luncheon an hour or so, or more.
"I thought you might be tired or unpacking," Jim lamely excused himself. "But whenever it is convenient to you, Deb Mrs Dalzell I am always close by; I can come at any time." He looked at her husband. "Claud, you remember Jim?" It was so many years since the men had met that the question was not uncalled for.
So home, and there alone with my wife and Deb. to dinner, and after dinner comes Betty Turner, and I carried them to the New Exchange, and thence I to White Hall and did a little business at the Treasury, and so called them there, and so home and to cards and supper, and her mother come and sat at cards with us till past 12 at night, and then broke up and to bed, after entering my journall, which made it one before I went to bed.
"Oh," moaned Frances, "no wonder they thought they could come and call and make friends with us! And no wonder," she added, more viciously, "that there he stands leering up at this window, when his horse has been ready this half hour." "Is he doing that?" asked Deb quickly. "Look at him!" Deb rose and looked; then, with a firm hand, closed the two little windows and drew down the blinds.
But there being so few of us that could dance, and my wife not being very well, we had not much pleasure in the dancing: there was Knepp also, by which with much pleasure we did sing a little, and so, about ten o'clock, I took coach with my wife and Deb., and so home, and there to bed. 24th. Up pretty betimes, and so there comes to me Mr. Shish, to desire my appearing for him to succeed Mr.
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