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The Ellsworthys will use their influence toward this end. They are very kind they have taken up your cause warmly. Primrose, my dear, it sounds hard, but plain speaking is best. You must be parted from your sisters. This is inevitable. You have got to face it." "It is not inevitable," answered Primrose then she paused, and her face turned very white.
Ellsworthy is a very rich woman?" "Mrs. Ellsworthy of Shortlands?" said Poppy; "why, in course; ever since I can remember, my mother has said to me, 'Poppy, child, them there Ellsworthys is made of money." "Made of money," repeated Daisy, a little shadowy smile coming to her face; "then they must be really rich. Do you think, Poppy, that Mrs.
'I know the Ellsworthys; they are my dear, dear friends! she exclaimed. "I found out where the three lived before I left them. They were accompanied by a prim-looking maiden lady, who was introduced to me as a Miss Slowcum, and who appeared to be taking excellent care of the pretty creatures. All three are delightful, and I have lost my heart to them all. "Can I do anything for them?
Noel might tell the Ellsworthys that he and Miss Egerton knew where the girls lived, and the Ellsworthys might give in-direct help by aiding him in his efforts to find suitable work for Primrose and Jasmine he too, could be their open and acknowledged friend, and he arranged with Miss Egerton to call and see them that very afternoon.
Well, Arthur, it is most surprising it is altogether incomprehensible, but never during the months we have been seeing each other daily have they alluded to you or the Ellsworthys. They seemed perfectly unconstrained, and chatted many times of their cottage home in the country, but they never spoke of the Ellsworthys." "They would not be likely to do," answered Noel.
Very likely the girls will get on in London they are spirited girls, and they may do better for themselves by struggling for independence than by living with the Ellsworthys. I always did maintain that work hurts no one."
No, Arthur; if you wish really to help them you must put them in the way of earning their own living, and in this manner the Ellsworthys can doubtless assist, for they are rich, and have influence." Then Miss Egerton and her guest had another long and earnest discussion, at the end of which time a compromise was arrived at.
Danesfield's emphatic injunctions to make the most of their visit to Shortlands, and, above all, the expression of deep distress on Mrs. Ellsworthy's charming face when she spoke of their poverty, were by no means thrown away on her. She felt very grave as the three sisters were driven home in the Ellsworthys' luxurious carriage.
He said he had seen the Ellsworthys, and meant to go down to Rosebury by the night train. "I'm pleased to hear it, young man," said Mrs. Dredge; "you're doing just what my Joshua would have approved of had he been alive.
"There is nothing whatever before you, Primrose, but to face the inevitable. The inevitable means that you must break up your home that you obtain, through the kind patronage of the Ellsworthys, a situation as governess, or companion, or something of that sort and that the little girls, Jasmine and Daisy, are put into a good school for the orphan daughters of military men.
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