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Updated: June 26, 2025
Don't let her grudge it them, though; it's all the enjoyment, or importance, they're ever had in their lives, poor dears. But I shall know, if a swab bursts in my inside, that it's Auntie Edie's. As for Auntie Emmeline's, I can't even imagine what they'd be like monstrosities or little babies injured at birth.
Moreover, Lady Hilda, in spite of her offhand manner was a good psychologist, and a true woman: and she had concocted her little speech on the spur of the moment with some cleverness, so as just to suit her instinctive reading of Edie's small personal peculiarities.
When I rose to go, Slidder said he would call Mrs Jones to mount guard, and give me a convoy home. No sooner were we in the street than he seized my hand, and, in a voice of unusual earnestness, said "I've got on 'er tracks!" "Whose tracks? What do you mean?" "On Edie's, to be sure Edie Willis."
Then he spoke. He asked to see Peggy. His voice was so low that she did not hear him. "What did you say, Walter?" He had to say it again. "Where is she? Can I see her?" His voice was still low, and it was thick and uncertain, but this time she understood. "In Edie's room," she said. "Nanna has the key." She did not go with him. When he came back to her she was still cold and torpid.
Even after the expenses of Edie's illness and of baby Dot's wardrobe, we have a little sum, a very little sum laid by, that'll help us to tide over the immediate present. It's too good of you, too good of you altogether. I shall remember your kindness for ever with the most sincere and heartfelt gratitude.
Meanwhile, in the little study with the bow-window over the shop, Harry and Edie Oswald were busily discussing the necessary preparations for Edie's long-promised visit to the University. 'I hope you've got everything nice in the way of dress, you know, Edie, said Harry.
There'a nothing gives one so much comfort when one's heart is bursting as a regular good downright cry. And, suiting the action to the word, forthwith Lady Hilda laid her own statuesque head down beside Edie's, and so those two weeping women, rivals once in a vague way, and now bound to one another by a new-found tie, mingled their tears silently together for ten minutes in unuttered sympathy.
Then again, the deft hints as to their friendship with Arthur Berkeley, as to Ernest's stay at Dunbude, and as to her own fear lest Edie should be too learned for her, all tended to bring out whatever points of interest they had together: while the casual touch about poor Harry's reputation, and the final mention of little Dot by name, completed the conquest of Edie's simple, gentle little woman's heart.
She's the wale o' the country for beauty, and a gude friend o' mine I gang by the bridewell as safe as by the kirk on a Sabbath deil ony o' them daur hurt a hair o' auld Edie's head now; I keep the crown o' the causey when I gae to the borough, and rub shouthers wi' a bailie wi' as little concern as an he were a brock."
In fact, the adept, moved by Edie's exhortations, fetched two or three desperate blows, and succeeded in breaking, not indeed that against which he struck, which, as he had already conjectured, was the solid rock, but the implement which he wielded, jarring at the same time his arms up to the shoulder-blades.
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