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Updated: June 8, 2025
To be here staying in Gladys's house, and Gladys not here, and I can't get away even if I want to, why, I can't seem to get used to it." "It's awful!" said Mrs. Spencer, coming in from the kitchen. "I hope your mother won't blame me, Marjorie; I'm sure I couldn't help it." "Of course she won't blame you, Mrs. Spencer. She'll only be sorry for you." "But she'll be so worried about you."
Another advertisement was of a different character: 'For Gladys's sake, please write to me, or give me a chance of speaking to you. An unknown but most sincere friend, U. G. The third advertisement was still more pressing: 'Jack Poynter's friends believe him dead, and are in great trouble: he is entreated to undeceive them. One word to the old address will be a comfort to his poor sister.
Is there anything else you wish to say to me? 'Only one thing, I replied quietly. 'Will you kindly give orders that Gladys's little maid, Chatty, waits upon the sick-room? Leah seems to have taken that office upon herself lately, and Gladys has a great dislike to her. 'Really, this passes everything! exclaimed Miss Darrell angrily. 'What has my poor Leah done, to be set aside in this way?
If she would only have let him alone; but that is not Etta's way: she must make or mar people's lives. There was a concentrated bitterness in Gladys's voice, and her face grew stern. 'There was no love between them. Eric detested Etta, and on her side I know she disliked him.
He was as much in the dark as we were about the trunk. Had we been carrying Gladys's trunk ever since we left home? we asked ourselves. No, for we had opened ours several times on the road. We gave it up when the puzzle threatened to addle our brains, and prepared to start away on our journey. Margery felt well again and ready to travel.
Etta has managed everything ever since. 'Do you mean that Miss Darrell is housekeeper? I should have thought that would have been your sister's place. 'Oh, Gladys is called the mistress of her house, but none of the servants go to her for orders. If she gives any, Etta is sure to countermand them, 'It is partly Gladys's fault, went on Lady Betty, in her frank outspoken way.
Evans had counted on Gladys's dress that night to testify to the soundness of the Evans fortune she was destined to be disappointed; but on the other hand, if inborn courtesy is a sign of high birth and breeding, then Gladys had proven herself to be a princess of the royal blood.
At once Bessie made a noose and slipped the rope over Gladys's shoulders. Then she let go, and, turning on her back, rested while Gladys was dragged toward the sloop. Bessie herself was almost exhausted by her struggle. She felt that, had her very life depended upon doing it, she could not have swam the few yards that separated her from the sloop. But there was no need for her to do it.
She didn't cry, but she sighed so frequently and so deeply, that kind-hearted Miss Lawrence almost wept in sympathy. At home it was better. The Maynards always had good times at home, and of course when there, Marjorie didn't miss Gladys so much. But the long mornings in the school-room, and the long afternoons when she wanted to run over to Gladys's house were almost unbearable.
Isn't this a fine birthday Mother Nature's fixed up for you?" The pleasant maid helped the little girl to bathe and dress, and, as the toilet went on, tried to bring a cheerful look into Gladys's face. "Now what are you hoping your mother has for you?" she asked, at last. "I don't know," returned the child, very near a pout. "There isn't anything I want.
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