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She was the favourite plaything of the boys, and got on well with Babie, who was too bright and yielding to quarrel with any one. But Janet's elder-sisterly authority was never accepted by the newcomer.
Once, indeed, Kate was allowed to ask her friends to tea; but that proved a disastrous affair. Fanny was prevented from coming; and in the absence of her quiet elder-sisterly care, the spirits of Grace and Adelaide were so excited by Kate's drollery, that they were past all check from Mary, and drew her along with them into a state of frantic fun and mad pranks.
She continued to gaze at me with her big eyes, which, to be candid, I found it difficult to meet. On a sudden her face was lighted by a smile, which I resented. 'Not after all these years, not after all these years! I know you, and though I daresay you're not flawless, I fancy you'll be found to ring pretty true. Her manner was almost sisterly, elder-sisterly. I could have shaken her.
'How is the village nurse? he asked, in his bright way. I certainly liked Mr. Tudor, he had such a pleasant, friendly way with him, and on his part he seemed always glad to see me. If I had ever talked slang, I might have said that we chummed together famously. He was a year younger than myself, and I took advantage of this to give him advice in an elder-sisterly fashion.
Toward Arnfinn, Augusta had, although of his own age, early assumed a kind of elder-sisterly relation; she had been his comforter during all the trials of his boyhood; had yielded him her sympathy with that eager impulse which lay so deep in her nature, and had felt forlorn when life had called him away to where her words of comfort could not reach him.
Why do you talk in that silly way when you know he cannot bear it?" "Because I'm Nan," answered the child, pouting her lips. "But Nan can learn wisdom," said Hester, in her sweet elder-sisterly tone.
And with his gray head bowed upon his breast the general stole away, carrying an arrow in his brave old heart. "Blanche, come here and rest, you will be ill tomorrow; and I promised Mamma to take care of you." With which elder-sisterly command Rose led the girl to an immense old chair, which held them both.
These we looked over together, and when Becky went away, the tears were dried in her eyes, and she was laughing as merrily as ever. With the severely implied reproach of Madeline's words still in my mind, I took pains to assume toward Luther Larkin a more elder-sisterly air even than before.
It was not the over-acted indifference nor the tender generosity of disappointment: it seemed more to partake of the fond, unselfish, elder-sisterly affection that she had always shown towards Louis, and it set her mother quite at ease. Seeing Lord Ormersfield riding into the terrace, Mary set out for a walk, that he might have his tete-a-tete freely with her mother.
She might, with this grown-up son of her husband's whom she had hardly seen, have shown herself shy, embarrassed, at a loss how to take him. She might have tried to be archly maternal with him or elder-sisterly. But she played up none of these sentimental possibilities, seemed, indeed, serenely unaware of them. She treated him just as she had always treated Mary as a contemporary.
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