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'Tell me, dear, she went on, 'you do feel already at home at Robin Redbreast? I want you to learn to love the little place as well as its old owner who can't be its owner for ever, she added in a lower voice, so that less quick ears than Jacinth's would scarcely have caught the words. 'I love it already dearly, she replied. 'For your sake first of all, of course, but for its own too.
The two days at Robin Redbreast passed most satisfactorily, and long before they came to an end Jacinth felt completely at home. It would have been almost impossible for her or for any girl not to feel grateful for Lady Myrtle's extreme kindness, but besides this, everything in the life suited Jacinth's peculiar character.
I felt that Aunt Alison couldn't understand what she was; and and it was no use seeming to take up the cudgels for our other relations the moment we came. There was something in this, and no doubt a reluctance to discuss their grandmother with a stranger, and a prejudiced stranger, had mingled with Jacinth's desire to propitiate her aunt.
The other appointment in London would be so much nicer, only living at all nicely in London is so dear, and the pay is smaller. Perhaps it will end after all in papa and mamma going back to India, and my joining them in two or three years. Lady Myrtle put out her hand, and clasped Jacinth's firmly in hers. 'No, my child, she said. 'That must not be.
She leaned forward and took hold of Jacinth's hand Jacinth was sitting next to her, and the servants had left the room and patted it affectionately. 'Of course. I know Jacinth is very, very thoughtful for me, she said. 'And I see that you understand it, my dear Miss Mildmay. Not that I am vexed with little Frances. I like children to be children, and of all things I like a loyal friend.
And all she had to leave, short of legacies to certain hospitals and other benevolent institutions which she had interested herself in, all was to be Jacinth's. The only landed property was Robin Redbreast and the small farm belonging to it, but in money there would be more than enough to keep up three or four places of its size.
And in her mind there had been no mingling of any selfish motive; nothing but the desire to prevent any possible annoyance to their kind old friend had prompted her few words of advice to the girls. And now the strange look a look almost of restrained anger on Jacinth's face positively startled her.
I don't think the rainfall here is much greater than in London or at Thetford, but the heavy air and the grayness make us, as you say, notice it more. In many places where there actually is more rain than the average, the country is peculiarly bright and fresh. Think of the grass in Ireland. But Jacinth's thoughts were already wandering elsewhere.
She would perhaps have been less grateful for Jacinth's sympathy had she understood the relief it was to her sister, notwithstanding her genuine pity for them, to know that the Harpers were not likely to be associated with them any more.
It was a much shorter one than Jacinth's, and she had scarcely glanced at the first few lines when she sprang from her seat with a sort of shriek. 'They're coming home, Jass! that's the secret. Oh Jass, Jass, listen: "As I may hope to see you before long, my darling, I won't attempt to write very much." That's it. Oh Jassie, sweet, they're coming home!
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