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However, as Euphemia said, it was better to take a little trouble than to have the house full of burglars, which was true enough. We made all the necessary arrangements in case burglars should make an inroad upon us. At the first sound of the alarm, Euphemia and the girl were to lie flat on the floor or get under their beds.
At this Euphemia and I could not help bursting into laughter. Pomona did not seem at all confused, but went on with her reading. "I hurried to the door, and, look-ing out, I saw a wagon at the gate. Re-pair-ing there, I saw a man. Said he, 'Wilt open this gate? I had fasten-ed up the gates and remov-ed every steal-able ar-ticle from the yard." Euphemia and I looked at each other.
"It's always easy to warm a small house like this," said Miss Palliser, whose Christian names, unfortunately for her, were Iphigenia Theodata, and who by her cousin and sister was called Iphy "and I suppose equally difficult to warm a large one such as Longroyston." The other Miss Palliser had been christened Euphemia.
And speaking of letters and invitations brings me round to friends. I dislike most people; in London they get in one's way in the street and fill up railway carriages, and in the country they stare at you but I hate my friends. Yet Euphemia says I must "keep up" my friends. They would be all very well if they were really true friends and respected my feelings and left me alone, just to sit quiet.
The muscles of his not gigantic arms seemed to swell and leap to bursting in his coat-sleeves. Those arms should screen his loved one from all evil. Visions of Perseus, and Sir Galahad, and Cophetua, swept before his eyes; he had almost cried to Miss Euphemia, "You need have no fear, I love your niece. I shall bow down and raise her to my throne.
"What does a little maid like you know of looks?" said Betty reprovingly, "and what would Aunt Euphemia say to such comments, I wonder?" "You'll never tell tales of me," said Moppet, with the easy confidence of a spoiled child. "Do you think he was a soldier perhaps an officer from Fort Trumbull, like the one Oliver brought home last April?" "Very likely," said Betty. "Are you cold, Moppet?
And so we did not interfere, although Euphemia found it quite sad, she said, to see the landlady standing idly about, gazing solemnly upon Pomona as she dashed from place to place engaged with her household duties. After we had been in the house for two or three days, Pomona came into our sitting-room one evening and made a short speech.
"Oh, no; there was Mr. Bosinney with her. She was perfectly dressed." But Swithin, hearing the name Irene, looked severely at Euphemia, who, it is true, never did look well in a dress, whatever she may have done on other occasions, and said: "Dressed like a lady, I've no doubt. It's a pleasure to see her." At this moment James and his daughters were announced.
The coffee-rooms, the bar-maids, the funny little apartments, the old furniture, and "a general air of the Elizabethan era," as Euphemia remarked. "I should almost call it Henryan," said Pomona, gazing about her in rapt wonderment. We soon set out on our expeditions of sight-seeing, but we did not keep together. Euphemia and I made our way to the old cathedral.
It was fortunate indeed for his peace of mind that he was completely unaware of this, but, then, he might not perhaps have troubled much even if he had known all about it. The only person who had a good word for him was Miss Euphemia Joliffe. She woke up flushed, but refreshed, after her nap, and found the supper-things washed and put away in their places.
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