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He understood her attentiveness to his comfort when she touched his arm and begged a word with him. "It's about that letter," she whispered, her eyes rolling around for any possible eavesdropper. "I'll ask you not to tell Miss Gordon nor Timothy Harkness. I'm old and new ways are new ways but I'll serve Miss Gordon as I've always served the Forsyths."
Though still at Sheen, the Forsyths were not in their original cottage. When their fortunes changed for the better, Mrs Forsyth had moved into a larger villa, with a verandah round it, and modest stabling, and a nice lawn.
"What do you mean?" asked Robin quietly, a little gleam in her eyes. "Why, stupid, the Forsyths aren't going to stand for that sort of thing. They'll send you back " "Beryl, do you think I'm staying here for the Forsyth money or or care about it? I came here so that Jimmie could go away without worrying about me. When he comes home I shall go back to him, of course." "Leave Gray Manor?"
Justice was justice, and she would like to meet the man who could say she had ever stooped to accept a bribe. So on and so on, while once again George Elgood hung his head abashed, and glanced in distress at his companion. In the delight afforded by that appeal Margot felt equal to dealing with ten Mrs Forsyths, each equally unreasonable and "kamstary."
You see, first my aunt and my guardian thought I was a boy the Forsyths have always been boys; and it was a dreadful shock, I guess, when my guardian found out I was a girl and such a small girl and lame, too. I think, though, he's forgotten that, now. But the housekeeper never will forgive me. And my great-aunt doesn't know, yet.
By this time Alfred began to be dismayed lest there should be no present for him; but Hannah had not yet got to the bottom of the box. When she had, she took out several packages of books, two of them directed to Alfred, and the others to the Miss Forsyths.
I had not often used it since I had been with the Forsyths, but I had always been very fond of it, and had played for hours to my old cousin in London. 'I think a violin is rather worldly, objected Kenneth in his mocking tone; 'I am sure it is not a fit conclusion to the sermon we have just been hearing.
He says the Forsyths don't care, that they just think of the Mill people as parts of a machine to make money for them, and not as human beings. Why, there was a girl, Sarah Castle " and Robin, her tongue loosed, told eloquently of Sarah Castle and of Susy and Granny and the old cottage "up the river," and then because it made it seem so real to tell about it of her House of Laughter.
It was trying to bear and her words now set me thinking, as I had sometimes thought before. Should I be wiser to leave the Forsyths, and go into work of some sort that would be more congenial? If my presence in the house was a trial to them, why should I not relieve them of it? And yet at present I hardly saw the way plain before me. 'Dwell deep, I said to myself.
'A friend of Kenneth who often comes to stay with the Forsyths. 'And what has he to do with you, or you with him? I hesitated, then said in a low voice, 'He wanted me to marry him, and I couldn't! 'Why not? 'I I didn't care enough for him, and we should not have suited each other. He leads a very gay life. 'But I suppose he vowed he would give all that up?
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