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Updated: June 22, 2025
"No light have we, and that we do resent, And, learning, this the weather will relent, Repent! Relent! Ah-men," Angelica sang. Diavolo paused with his brush halfway to his mouth, and nodded intelligently. "Now!" said Angelica, and they repeated the parody together, Angelica making a perfect second to Diavolo's exquisite treble. Evadne looked up from her work surprised.
They were all sitting round an open window, and just at that moment the twins themselves appeared in sight, straggling up the drive in a deep discourse, with their arms round each other's necks, and Angelica's dark head resting against Diavolo's fair one. "Harmony reigns among the heavenly bodies, apparently," said Dr. Galbraith.
It was pretty to see Diavolo's fair head touching Angelica's dark one across the little table; but when it came too close Angelica would dunt it sharply out of the way with her own, which was apparently the harder of the two, and Diavolo would put up his hand and rub the spot absently. He was too thoroughly accustomed to such sisterly attentions to be altogether conscious of them.
He took the precaution to place them on either side of him so as to separate them and interpose a solid body between them and any signals they might make to each other; but in the quietest part of the service, when everybody was kneeling, some movement of Diavolo's attracted his attention for a moment from Angelica, and when he looked again the latter had disappeared.
So after the conference he announced that he had been questioning Angelica, and had found that she really was too far advanced for a governess, and he had therefore decided that she should share Diavolo's lessons with the tutor.
"I am afraid there has been an accident," he said with concern when he saw Diavolo's head tied up in a handkerchief. "Oh, no, thank you, sir," that young gentleman assured him. "It is only a scratch." "I did it," said the candid Angelica; "and it looked unpleasant, so I tied it up." "Oh," the bishop ejaculated, glancing inquiringly at his wife and daughter. "You wanted to see me?"
Ellis, came out of the plantation to the left of the terrace upon which we were sitting, and walked across the lawn toward us, while at the same moment Diavolo and Evadne came round the corner of the house from the opposite direction and went to meet them. Evadne carried a parasol, but wore neither hat nor gloves. She looked very happy, listening to Diavolo's chatter.
The corridor was all in darkness; an excessive silence pervaded the place; the whole household had apparently retired. With confident steps, although in the dark, Angelica went to Diavolo's room, and presently returned with a suit of his clothes.
"You can't touch them at all without coming to water. You cry when you laugh." Mr. Ellis had stolen softly out of the room as soon as he could do so unobserved, and now the twins were sitting together in their favourite position on the same chair, with their arms around each other, and Angelica's dark head slanted so as to lean against Diavolo's fair one.
Evadne did not understand, so Angelica kindly explained: "You see, I'm the eldest, but Diavolo's a boy, so he gets the property because of the entail, and we neither of us think it fair; so we fight for it, and whichever wins is to have it. I won the last battle, so it's mine just now; but Diavolo may win it back if we fight again before papa dies. That's why he wants to fight now, I expect."
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