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He sinks into the background, and when the friend is removed they feel utterly stranded, and in some cases fall back in their Christian life. When we reached the house, we found every one in the drawing-room at tea. Miss Willoughby was in high spirits. She was organizing some tableaux that the Forsyths were trying to get up, and was pressing every one into her service.
'Upon my word, Goody, I think you are showing too much feeling now, was the laughing rejoinder; 'I think I must make myself scarce till you are calmer. And he walked away and left me. He was the only one of the Forsyths that I did not quite understand.
I enjoyed the tea provided for me, and liked the quiet and solitude such a contrast to the Forsyths' afternoon meal. Then, as no one came, a sudden longing took possession of me to try my violin. The dusky twilight, and the fire flickering over the quaint, old-fashioned room, seemed to bring me into a world of fancy.
He bustled up the steps, and thrust a bag in Harkness' limp hand. "Well, we're here!" he cried cheerily, ignoring the amazement and disappointment that fairly tingled in the air. "And a fine welcome you're giving us!" He turned to Robin, who stood rooted to the threshold. "My dear, these people have served the Forsyths faithfully and for a long time. Harkness, this is Gordon Forsyth. Mrs. Budge "
When you are older you will understand that an industry such as I am in charge of here, and conducting, I believe, quite satisfactorily for the Forsyths, has to be run by the head and not the heart. I dislike immensely having to do such things as forcing the Rileys to move but you must see it is my duty. If I make an exception in their case there will be hundreds like them.
Constance is going to be married about Easter. I do not see why that time should not suit you. 'Oh no, I cried; and though I had resented them at the time, Miss Rayner's words came before me. 'I would rather wait longer; please let me, if it is not inconvenient to you. He said no more, but I wondered much if the Forsyths were relieved at the possibility of my leaving them soon.
And there was nothing of romance in the Forsyth family which had come over to Connecticut from England in the early days of its settlement and had left to all the Forsyths to come, not only the beginnings of the Forsyth factory where thread was made by the millions of spools, and the Forsyth fortune, amassed by those same spools, but also a deal of that courage which had helped those pioneers endure the hardships and meet the obstacles of the early days.
"All the guests. Why, Robin, you're hopeless! You simply can't get it into your head that the Forsyths are different from the Mill people." "They're not. And we haven't time to argue now. They're coming a lot of them. Your mother invited them for me through the school teacher you see, there wasn't time for me to, because I didn't know where the younger children lived.
The old lady said the words slowly. "My real name is Gordon Forsyth, but I've always been called Red-Robin. I'm living at Gray Manor now over in Wassumsic. My father he's not one of the rich Forsyths, you see is an artist and he's travelling with Mr. Tony Earle, who writes, you know. I wish you could come to the Manor."
A Miss Willoughby and her brother were staying in the house; they were cousins of the Forsyths, and had returned from London with them, but I had always kept away from them, as Miss Willoughby's manner and ways grated on me. She seemed utterly devoid of all religion, and was always ready to scoff and jeer at serious subjects. She was a clever woman of the world, and looked upon me as a mere child.
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