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Updated: May 2, 2025
He walked with Ursula to the station, whither her little box with her evening dress had gone before her, in a half-affronted state of mind. "What does he want with a pupil?" Reginald was saying, as he had said before. "A fellow no one knows, coming and taking possession of the house as if it belonged to him.
She need not have been afraid. With the next night Hepburn came; and Kinraid did not. After a few words to her mother, Philip produced the candles he had promised, and some books and a quill or two. 'What for hast thou brought candles? asked Bell, in a half-affronted tone. Hepburn smiled. 'Sylvia thought it would take a deal of candlelight, and was for making it into a reason not to learn.
This was said without the slightest appearance of any other feeling than a gentle request. I was surprised, and scarce knew what to make of it; at first, I refused to take the box. "I hope I have done nothing to merit this, Lucy?" I said, half-affronted, half-grieved.
One can fancy the terror of the nurse, the distress of the Duchess, the fright and ire of the Duke, the horror and humiliation of the unhappy offender, with the gradual cooling down into magnanimous amnesty or at most dignified rebuke, mollified by penitent tears into reassuring kindness, and just a little quiver of half-affronted, half-nervous laughter.
She need not have been afraid. With the next night Hepburn came; and Kinraid did not. After a few words to her mother, Philip produced the candles he had promised, and some books and a quill or two. 'What for hast thou brought candles? asked Bell, in a half-affronted tone. Hepburn smiled. 'Sylvia thought it would take a deal of candlelight, and was for making it into a reason not to learn.
May looked at him with scientific observation, and Ursula with half-affronted curiosity; his self-occupation was an offence to the girl, but it was only amusing to her father. "An unmitigated cub," Mr. May pronounced to himself; but there where he sat he represented three hundred a-year, and that, at least, was not to be despised.
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