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"It's going to be the finest table cover that ever was." "Nice as Aunt Emily's?" questioned Bert. "She's got a a dandy, all worked in roses." "This is going to be white, like the lace window curtains," replied Nan. While Freddie and Flossie watched her with deep interest, she took a small square of tissue paper and folded it up several times.
But it was an arrival she had to announce, not a departure, and she announced it abruptly. "She's come!" she gasped in a whisper more penetrating than a shout; and her face added, "You poor, poor things, I am sorry for you." For once Emily's sympathies were with them, and even while staggering under the blow they had just received, Kitty could not help noticing the fact.
Prankard, I hear, won't have Emily's name mentioned. We here go on the other tack, and the children are all day long talking about what mamma did and said, and adventures we had together. And why not? The tears come sometimes: let them, they do no harm, are a relief more than anything, and the time is coming when God will wipe away all tears from our eyes.
'In spite of Emily's dignified contradictions of the report, every one knew it the other evening. It was all in vain that she behaved as if I was speaking treason people have eyes. 'Ah! I am very sorry for that contradiction, said Lily; 'I hope people will not fancy we do not like it. 'No, it will only prove my greatness, said Lord Rotherwood.
Graeme was strongly tempted to yield to their persuasions, and go to Merleville with them; but her long absence during the summer, and the hope that they might go to Emily's wedding soon, decided her to remain at home. Yes; they had enjoyed a few weeks of great happiness; and the very day of their departure brought upon Graeme the pain which she had almost ceased to fear.
"You and I, Abel, are just of an age. Why should you talk to me like this? You are strong enough, whatever I am. Why shouldn't you come? Dresden! I never heard of such a thing. I suppose it's some nonsense of Emily's." Then Mr. Wharton told his whole story. "Nonsense of Emily's!" he began. "Yes, it is nonsense, worse than you think. But she doesn't want to go abroad."
"But she is a child who has been so unfortunately brought up as to require constant watching; and to have her in the house does so much harm to Jane's health, that I strongly advise you not to attempt it in Emily's state of spirits." "It would little benefit Emily's spirits to transfer a duty to a stranger," said the Colonel.
She read it, and her resolution was formed. After carefully resealing and delivering it to the servant, she went at once to Mr. Mandeville, and revealed Lady Emily's attachment to Falkland.
She had heard that Joanna began to feel anxious; she had received no letter from husband or sons for some months. Emily's silks rustled arrogantly when, in response to Joanna's almost dumb invitation, she squeezed through the opening of the counter and into the parlour behind the shop. 'You are all success, and I am all the other way! said Joanna. 'But why do you think so? said Emily.
"Even if I had no other motive than mere curiosity," Alban answered, "I think I should go on. But I have a more urgent purpose in view. All that I have done thus far, has been done in Emily's interests. My object, from the first, has been to preserve her from any association in the past or in the future with the woman whom I believe to have been concerned in her father's death.
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