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"It is as if we had gone back thirty years or more," was Angela's cry, as she looked forth on what had been as little altered as possible from the old family centre; and Lance, setting down the child, spoke as the pretty little blue-eyed girls advanced to exchange kisses with their new aunt. "Margaret, or Pearl, whom you knew as a baby; Etheldred, or Awdrey, and Dickie! Fely is at Marlborough.
Neither the prospect nor the company of little Fely greatly reconciled him to the delay, but his mother could not believe that her darling could travel alone, and his only satisfaction was in helping Fergus to arrange his spare specimens for sale. But I needn't tell you what to do, only do it out of hand, And charge whatever you like to charge, my lady won't make a stand. T. HOOD.
Appetite for breakfast was lacking, but Lance forced himself to swallow, as one aware of the consequences of fasting for agitation's sake, and he nearly crammed Gerald; so that Adrian and Fely laughed, and he excused himself by declaring that he wanted his turkey-cock to gobble and not pipe. For which bit of pleasantry he encountered a glare from Gerald's Hungarian eyes.
"We stood the Sepoy's Death Song, said the General, "but the poster of the Bleeding Bride was enough for us." "They had only one elephant!" cried Adrian. "A regular swindle," said Wilfred. "No lions!" added Fely, "nothing to see but that poor old elephant! I wish he would have turned round and spouted water at them, as that one did to the tailor."
He was afraid on one side to lose sight of his nephew, on the other he did not feel equal to encounter a scolding from Marilda, so he sent Adrian and Fely down to the Marine Hotel to fetch Franceska, while he stole a moment or two for greeting Clement, who was much better, and only wanted more conversation than he durst give him.
Go on if you are wanted, and I will follow. Cherry has sent the carriage for an invalid who cannot venture to be there all the day." "Let them wait. A walk with you is not to be wasted. Run on, Fely, tell them we are coming," he added to his little Ariel, who had got lost in Jungle Beasts.
I bought her with the sovereign Uncle Fernan gave me." Geraldine gave the ship her due admiration, and asked after the masque. "Oh, that went off pretty well. I wouldn't have been Fely! All the ladies went and said 'Pretty dear! when he sang his song about the bat's back. Disgusting! But then he has not been a fellow at school, so he made his bow and looked as if he didn't mind it."
"Will you mount it, Fergus?" asked his uncle. "You did not expect such a demonstration." Fergus bit his lip. It was hard to be teased instead of exalted; but Fely and he were absorbed in the pink broadsides that the lady in the car was scattering. The Sepoy's Revenge! Thrilling Incidents! Sagacious Elephant! Dance of Arab Coursers!! Acrobatic Feats!! &c., &c.
Will has stopped it in the churchyard." "And fortunately we have no school-boys to reckon with, except Adrian and Fely, who will be quite amenable."
Gerald rushed about a little more, but finally listened to his uncle's representation that the engrossing employment was good to prevent the peril of disturbing the two whom they were so anxious to spare. Fely came running up with a message that Aunt Cherie and Anna had been sent for to see about the decorations of the art stall, and that they would have to eat their breakfast without them.
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