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The odd thing is, as I was saying, that though Jacinth "takes after" my mother's family so decidedly, yet she is more like the Mildmays than either Francie or Eugene. 'I don't see it, I confess, said Lady Myrtle drily, and Mrs Mildmay caught for the first time a glimpse of the cold manner the old lady could assume if not altogether well pleased.
"I I don't quite see at present," he answered her. "I thought I would talk it over with you, Miss Francie. I thought there might be something in that; that the way might seem clearer. But I see no way at all, unless you were to go to him yourself. He would listen to you. Or he might even listen to me, if I represented to him that you were distressed at the condition of affairs.
"No, no," Nina murmured, in the same low voice, and she followed him up-stairs. On entering the sitting-room she glanced apprehensively at those strangers; but Francie, divining in an instant who she was and why Maurice had brought her hither, immediately came to her and pressed her hand, in silence. Maurice went into the sick-room.
An irruption she made of her desired reappearance; she rushed to one of the tables, flinging down her muff and gloves, while Delia, who had sprung up as she came in, caught her closely and glared into her face with a "Francie Dosson, what HAVE you been through?" Francie said nothing at first, only shutting her eyes and letting her sister do what she would with her.
What he would do with it then, with his sisters dead and himself dead, was often mockingly queried by free spirits such as Francie, Euphemia, or young Nicholas' second, Christopher, whose spirit was so free that he had actually said he was going on the stage. All admitted, however, that this was best known to Timothy himself, and possibly to Soames, who never divulged a secret.
"The temperature is steadily decreasing nearly three degrees since last night and he is now in a profound sleep; the crisis is over, and happily over, as I imagine. I'm going along to tell his mother and Francie and to go to bed for a bit." And Maurice?
"For myself," he continued, speaking slowly, as if trying to think things out "for myself, whether I ought to repent or not, I don't I can't. Theoretically, I know it is always the man who is in the wrong, and I should have been foully in the wrong I should be unfit to live if you had been an unmarried girl, Francie or if I had been the the "
And there was another pause, while each rolled a stone under his foot. "Cast your jaiket and I'll fecht ye for a bawbee," cried the elder boy with sudden violence, and dramatically throwing back his jacket. "Na, I have nae time the now," said Francie, with a sharp thrill of alarm, because Crozer was much the heavier boy. "Ye're feared.
'But ye see, Francie, she went on, 'yer father, whan he left ye a kin' o' a legacy, as ye may ca' 't, to mine, hed no intention that I was to be left oot; neither had my father whan he acceppit o' 't! 'Haud yer tongue and hearken, returned Kirsty. 'Sakes, lassie! what are ye haverin at? Wud it be pu'in agen yer father to merry me? 'It wud be that. 'I dinna see hoo ye can mak it oot!
"Yes, very likely she has," said Francie placidly enough. "I don't like her so well as the others." "You like the others very much?" "Of course I do. So would you if they had made so much of you." "That one at the studio didn't make much of me, certainly," Mr. Flack declared. "Yes, she's the most haughty," Francie allowed. "Well, what is it all about?" her friend demanded. "Who are they anyway?"
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