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"It is the sort of stuff that we all of us wrote more or less after we left school," said the Baron with a bored expression he was acting his part of arbiter of taste who has seen everything. "We used to deal in Ossianic mists, Malvinas and Fingals and cloudy shapes, and warriors who got out of their tombs with stars above their heads.
"You're the meanest low-down things I ever heard of!" she told the astonished older girls, fairly spitting at them in her fury. "You you go and s-sponge off the Fingáls for c-c-cakes and rides and s-s-soda water and you think they're too l-l-lovely for w-words and you t-t-try to do your hair just the way C-C-Camilla does. They aren't any different today f-f-from what they were yesterday are they?
No mention was ever made of the disappearance of the Fingáls, and the Marshall children found their old places waiting for them. It was not long before Judith had all but forgotten the episode; but Sylvia, older and infinitely more impressionable, found it burned irrevocably into her memory. For many and many a week, she did not fall asleep without seeing Camilla's ashy face of wretchedness.
"It is the sort of stuff that we all of us wrote more or less after we left school," said the Baron with a bored expression he was acting his part of arbiter of taste who has seen everything. "We used to deal in Ossianic mists, Malvinas and Fingals and cloudy shapes, and warriors who got out of their tombs with stars above their heads.
And it was years before she could walk past the house where the Fingáls had lived, without feeling sick. Her life was, however, brimming with active interests which occupied her, mind and body.
I am quite convinced; and I shall rank Ossian, and his Fingals and Oscars, amongst the Nursery Tales, not the true history of our country, in all time to come. 'Upon the whole, the book cannot displease, for it has no pretensions.
She heard Judith asking in an astonished voice, "Why, what makes you think so?" and she listened with a tortured attention to the statement vouchsafed in an excited chorus by a great many shrill little voices that the Fingáls' old cook had taken a little too much whiskey for once and had fallen to babbling at the grocery-store before a highly entertained audience of neighbors, about the endless peregrinations of the Fingál family in search of a locality where the blood of the children would not be suspected "an' theah motheh, fo' all heh good looks, second cousin to Mattice!" she had tittered foolishly, gathering up her basket and rolling tipsily out of the store.
Ulster, indeed, had long since become wholly Irish, but within the Pale the minor barons of Norman descent Fingals, Gormanstons, Dunsanys, Trimbelstons and others remained where their Norman fathers had established themselves, and where their descendants for the most part may be found still.
The next day was Saturday, and it was suggested that Judith and Sylvia carry on their campaign by going to see the Fingáls and spending the morning playing with them as though nothing had happened.
Everybody was saying this morning that the Fingáls' mother was a negro, and so the girls weren't going to invite Camilla to the picnic, and it made Judith mad." "Why, she didn't know Camilla very well, did she?" asked the teacher, astonished. "No, ma'am," said Sylvia, still speaking quickly, although the tears of fright were beginning to stand in her eyes.
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