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Updated: June 27, 2025
Clifford, with considerate kindness, had resolved to defer all conversation with Amy relating to her bereavement and the scenes that had ensued. At this holiday-time they would make every effort within their power to pierce with light and warmth the cold gray clouds that of late had gathered so heavily over the poor child's life.
"It falls out fortunately that it is holiday-time. Young Christie is here: you know him? He told us how he had met you at some grand house in the winter, where he went to paint a picture: the lady had too little expression to please him, and he was not satisfied with his work. She was, fortunately, and her husband too, for he had a hundred pounds for the picture like coining money his father says.
She checked him with her quick, winning smile. "Please don't talk French. I like English so much the best. Besides, it's holiday-time." "But, mademoiselle," he persisted, "if it should become serious!" "Oh, it won't," she said lightly. "I shall be all right. Nothing ever happens to me." "Nothing?" he questioned, with an answering smile. She was hobbling over the stones with his assistance.
At the time that Eustacia was listening to the rick-makers' conversation on Clym's return, Thomasin was climbing into a loft over her aunt's fuelhouse, where the store-apples were kept, to search out the best and largest of them for the coming holiday-time.
Of all the early autumn things to be done in holiday time, that game with the beach and the wave is the least good for holiday-time. Not that the shore is everywhere so barren. The coast of the Londoners all round the southern and eastern borders of England is indeed the dullest of all sea-margins.
She brushed Kate's hair until it was so smooth and flat as to be almost invisible from a front view; she tied Ethel's sash, and the ribbon to match which confined the ends of her curls; and she fastened Flora's dress, which was a matter of difficulty and time, for though it was let out regularly each holiday-time, it invariably grew too tight before it was needed again.
"I really cannot positively say," replied McShane; "but this is not holiday-time. Come, sir, we must not part yet; your conversation is too interesting. You must allow me to call for some more brandy; poor as I am, I must treat myself and you too. I wish I knew where I could pick up a little money; for, to tell you the truth, cash begins to run low." Furness was now more than half drunk.
He stops at Rodwell Regis through the year: school-time and holiday-time, it is all the same to him. Nobody asks about him, or thinks about him, save twice a year, when the Doctor goes to Gaunt House, and gets the amount of his bills, and a glass of wine in the steward's room. And yet you see somehow that he is a gentleman.
"Do you remember your holiday-time when you were a boy, and when you had to go back to school?" he asked with a smile. "My mind is in much the same state at leaving Scotland, and going back to my work in London. I hardly know which I admire most your beautiful country or the people who inhabit it.
"We have half-an-hour yet before I am to meet your father in the manuscript-room. Begin at the beginning, and tell me just everything. You are not schoolgirls?" "Oh, no," said Merry, speaking slowly. "We are taught at home." "But have you a resident governess?" "No; father objects. This is holiday-time of course; but as a rule we have a daily governess and masters."
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