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'Yes; but she told me to say, in case we hardly thought it likely but in case Lady Fotheringham should be kind enough to call, she told me to say she will certainly call early to-morrow.
'What, my dear! said astonished Lady Martindale. 'You engaged, and you have not told me! 'Only since yesterday, mamma. He spoke to papa only this morning. 'But who is it? Nothing that your aunt disapproves, I trust, my dear. 'Percy Fotheringham, said Theodora, standing firm, and exulting in defiance; but her aunt continued that same provoking disregard.
They were all quite right; and I can now see it was very good for me. When Mr. Fotheringham died, and they were about to leave the parish, I spoke to my father. He had the highest esteem for them all, was fond of her, knew they had behaved admirably. I verily believe he would have consented at once nay, he had half done so, but 'Mrs. Nesbit, I am sure, exclaimed Violet.
Marsham's sister dressed with severity; and as she approached her cousin she put up her eye-glass for what was evidently a hostile inspection of the dazzling effect presented by the young lady. But Alicia was not afraid of Mrs. Fotheringham. "How early we are!" she said, still quietly looking at the reflection of herself in the mirror over the mantel-piece and warming a slender foot at the fire.
Well, we seldom spent a day without meeting, even after I had a tutor. The beginning of our troubles was her fifteenth birthday, the 10th of July. I had saved up my money, and bought a coral cross and a chain for her; but Mrs. Fotheringham would not let her keep it; she said it was too costly for me to give to any one but my sister.
"Now," she said, "you'd better take the letters in to my godmother and tell her all about it at once. I'll wait here till you come back." She had not to wait long, for Miss Munnion reappeared in less than five minutes shaking her head mournfully. "It's just as I thought it would be," she said. "Mrs Fotheringham thinks it's very unreasonable of me to want to go to Diana."
Louis, where they were locked up to answer the indictments which the grand jury had already found against them. Fotheringham, who had all this time laid in jail, still protested his innocence.
The first visible shoot had been drawn forth by Helen Fotheringham; but the growth, though rapid, had been one-sided; the branches, like those of a tree in a sea-wind, all one way, blown aside by gusts of passion and self-will. In its next stage, the attempt to lop and force them back had rendered them more crooked and knotty, till the enterprise had been abandoned as vain.
Signed by, MARY WINSOR, Lucy BRANHAM, ERNESTINE HARA, HILDA BLUMBERG, MAUD MALONE, PAULINE F. ADAMS, ELEANOR. A. CALNAN, EDITH AINGE, ANNIE ARNEIL, DOROTHY J. BARTLETT, MARGARET FOTHERINGHAM. The Commissioners' only answer to this was a hasty transfer of the signers and the leader, Miss Burns, to the District Jail, where they were put in solitary confinement.
'We are not such ninnies. 'But seriously, Theodora, what can induce Fotheringham to have you? 'I expected you to ask what induced me to have him. 'That in its own time! Tell me, first, why he takes you. 'The same reason that you took Violet. 'As if you and Violet were to be named together! 'Or you and Percy! They laughed, and Theodora then spoke with deep feeling.
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