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Steeped in Susan's spirit he thought of it as a reparation, to Eunice, perhaps to Essie, but more certainly to an essence within himself. But immediately he saw the futility of such a course; the inexorable logic of existence could not be so easily placated, its rhyming of cause and effect defeated. All that he had told Susan Brundon recurred strengthened to an immovable conviction.
Terriberry had engaged other help for the occasion and all the afternoon of the day set Essie Tisdale waited for the tardy invitation which she told herself was an oversight. She could not believe that Augusta Kunkel, who was indebted to her for more good times than she ever had had in her uneventful life, could find it in her heart to slight her.
I asked in a trembling voice, afraid that having delivered herself once, she might lapse into dumbness. "Birds!" The nursemaid, Essie, described Edy tersely as "a piece," while Teddy, who was adored by every one because he was fat and fair and angelic-looking, she called "the feather of England." "The feather of England" was considered by his sister a great coward.
Not a word was spoken between them that all Gershom might not have heard, though nothing could be more friendly and pleasant than their intercourse during these ten days. But then Miss Essie was on friendly terms with every one. Nothing could be more charming than her manners, it was said. She was "not a bit stuck up," the Gershom girls acknowledged.
She was in; and he saw, on the hall stand, a silk hat and overcoat cut in an extreme of current fashion. The servant preceded him above, toward the room usual for casual gatherings; and he heard a sudden low murmur, expostulation, follow the announcement of his name. Essie Scofield appeared at the top of the stairs. "Come up," she said in a hesitating, sullen voice. He mounted without reply.
When she was finally encased in a steel-colored satin bodice her plump shoulders appeared to start directly beneath her ears, and her hands were not only purple, but slightly numb. "How do I look, child?" "How do you feel?" asked Essie evasively. "As well as anybody could with their in'ards crowded up under their chin," replied Mrs. Terriberry grimly.
She laid both hands upon her heart. "I feel still and cold and sort of impersonal inside." "Oh, Essie!" "I understand perfectly, Mrs. Terriberry. You like me you like me very much, but you are one kind of a coward, and of what value is a coward's friendship or regard? I don't mean to be impertinent I'm just trying to explain how I feel.
"But I don't like wasting time over old easy things made difficult," sighed Jessie. "It is very tiresome, my dear; but your papa wishes it, and you see, poor thing, she can't teach you more than she knows herself; and while you are there, I am sure it is all right with Essie and Ellie." "She does not teach them a bit like Miss James," said Jessie.
She had, she felt sure, safeguarded herself so far as Essie Tisdale was concerned, yet she was not satisfied, for she seemed no nearer overcoming Van Lennop's prejudice than the day she had aroused it. He distinctly avoided her, and she did not believe in forcing issues.
Essie Langridge was very quiet all the evening; I fancy she was rather frightened of Cecilia. She said very little. Father had a long day's hunting yesterday, and Angus Drummond went with him. Mr Keith would not go, though Father laughed about it, and asked if he were afraid of the hares eating him up. Neither would he go to the hunt-supper, afterwards.
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