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"Poor little Flapsy!" said Agatha, "I do hope this engagement may make more of a woman of her." "My father was very much struck by Mr. Delrio," said Phyllis, "both as artist and personally." "You must be glad of the time for putting her up to his level," said Gillian. "Do you think such things are to be done?" asked Agatha. "Yes," said Phyllis stoutly.
I never saw anything more lovely than little St. Cyriac the martyr." "He is taken from Mrs. Henderson's little boy," added Vera; "such a dear little darling." "And his mother is to be done; indeed, he has sketched her for St. Juliet." "Flapsy! St. Romeo, too, I suppose?" "Nonsense, Nag! There really was a St. Juliet or Julitta, and she was his mother, and they both were martyrs.
"Dolores had no great opinion of her Aunt Adeline," she said. "My dear," said Magdalen, as they sat over their early fire, "I have talked it over with Lady Merrifield and Miss Mohun, and they both tell me that Mrs. White is very sensible, and sure to be discreet for any girl in her charge probably better for Flapsy than a more intellectual woman." "But ! Such a marriage as this one!" said Agatha.
'Flapsy, come down! Bobbie, where are you! A voice answered him; and in another moment Robina and Lance stood in the glade, and with them a girl newly come to her teens, whom they pulled forward, crying, 'She says she's our cousin! 'Indeed, said Mr. Underwood: 'I am sure you are very much obliged to her.
"Less on his side, since Felicia Vanderkist has been here; but I think Vera has been all the more disposed to to " "Run after him," said Agatha. "I could fancy it in Flapsy; but he is such a boy, and not half so nice-looking as the rest of them either." "My dear Agatha, I must tell you he reminds me strangely of a young Mr. Merrifield whom I knew at Filsted when I was younger than you."
Magdalen further discovered that Thekla's name in common use was "Tickle," or else "Tick-tick"; Paulina was, of course, Paula or Polly; Vera had her old baby title of Flapsy, which somehow suited her restless nervous motions, and Agatha had become Nag.
Vera blushed, and looked very pretty and modest, making not much answer as she retreated among her contemporaries to show them her ring, a hoop of pearls, which Wilfred insisted were Roman pearls, fishes' eyes, most appropriate; but Flapsy felt immeasurably older than Wilfred to-day, and able to despise his teasing, though Hubert Delrio was not present, and indeed Wilfred was not disposed to bestow much of his attention upon her, having much more inclination to beset his cousin, Lady Phyllis, who surely ought to perceive that he had attained at least the same height as his brother Jasper, and could, in his absence, pose as the young man of the household.
As people go, they are very safe guardians, and Vera Flapsy as they call her is just of the composition to be improved, and not disimproved, by living with Ada." "Probably, though I do not like the foolish little puss to be rewarded for throwing over young Delrio." "He was so much too good for her that I am more inclined to reward her for doing so!"
I hear she is very much grown since those days. 'Oh! when she once gets gossipping with the Miss Brownings, she never knows when to come home, said Mrs. Gibson. 'The Miss Brownings? Oh! I am so glad you named them! I am very fond of them. Pecksy and Flapsy; I may call them so in Molly's absence. I'll go and see them before I go home, and then perhaps I shall see my dear little Molly too.
I saw one with a Gainsborough hat, and a bunch of cock's feathers, with a scarlet cactus cocking it up behind." "Flapsy made use of her opportunities, you see. Being 'emparocked in a pew' cannot daunt her spirit of research." "Now, Nag, I only meant to show you what impossible people they are." "Natives who will repay the study perhaps," continued Agatha, reading as though from a book of travels.
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