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'Only she spoke of them as Pecksy and Flapsy and when she talked of coming to call on me at their house, I asked her not to come if she was going to to make fun of them. 'Upon my word! with all my long acquaintance with Lady Harriet I should never have ventured on such impertinence. 'I didn't mean it as impertinence, said Molly, sturdily. 'And I don't think Lady Harriet took it as such.
'And you suppose you know her ways better than I do, who have known her these fifteen years? I tell you she turns every one into ridicule who does not belong to her set. Why, she used always to speak of the Miss Brownings as "Pecksy and Flapsy." 'She promised me she would not, said Molly driven to bay. 'Promised you! Lady Harriet? What do you mean?
"Nonsense," Agatha muttered; but Magdalen said, "You can sit in the drawing-room or your own room. Come, Tick-tick, where's your slate? Come along." "Don't sulk, Flapsy," said the elder sister, "it is of no use. The M.A. means to be minded, and will be, and you know it is all for your good." "I hate my good," said naughty Vera.
Every one at Filston of my age is leaving off all the bother." "Not Agatha." "Oh, but Agatha is !" "Is what? "Agatha is awfully clever, and wants to be something!" "Something? But do you want to evaporate? To be nothing at all, I mean," said Magdalen, seeing her first word was bewildering, and Thekla put in "Flapsy couldn't go off in steam, could she? Isn't that evaporating?"
A little more zeal and distress would have been much more pleasing to Vera; and she began to be what Agatha and Thekla called cross, and Paula called drooping, and even excited alarm in her, lest Flapsy should be going into a decline. But a note came to the Goyle which Magdalen read alone, and likewise she cycled alone to Rockstone.
Magdalen really rejoiced when the frequent golf and tennis parties carried Vera on her bicycle out of reach of arguing, even if it took her into the alternative of flirtation. Thekla cried bitterly, and declared that she should never speak to Flapsy again; but in half an hour's time was heard chattering about the hedgehog's meal of cockroaches. In another week the excitement was over.
I might have seen then it was not fit for me; but I was a child, and over-persuaded among you all! But I know better now, and I know my own mind, as I didn't then. So you need not talk! I have done with him." "Oh, Flapsy, Flapsy, how can you grieve him so? You don't know what you are throwing away!" incoherently cried Paula, collapsing in a burst of tears.
"Do you hope it really, Nag, for Flapsy really was very much did care very much." "I have no great faith in Flapsy's affections surviving the contact with greater swells." "Poor Hubert!" "Perhaps his will not survive common sense. I am sure I hope not for both their sakes." "But, Nag, it would be very horrid of them if they had no constancy," declared the more romantic Paula.
So he thought; but before the time of separation had come, he had found out that Thekla was far prettier than ever Vera had been, and with a mind and principle no Flapsy, but a real sympathetic and poetic nature, which had grown up in these years. Young as she was, their destinies were fixed. And Magdalen?
"Oh, Gill, none of us ever failed before." On the side of the Goyle not much was known or cared about Wilfred's little attentions, which were generally out of sight of Magdalen, and did not amount to much; but Paula saw enough of them to consult Agatha on, and to observe that Flapsy was going on just as she used to at Filsted, and she thought Hubert would not like it.
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