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Updated: April 30, 2025
'Oh, they don't think that, said Frances. 'And Jass, she went on, encouraged by her sister's softer tone, and encircling her neck fondly with her two arms as she sat, half on Jacinth's knee, half on the edge of her chair, 'I don't quite see why being sorry for the poor Harpers, and and wishing we could make Lady Myrtle feel so too, need make her leave off being kind to us too.
Jacinth's usually cold unimpulsive nature was strongly moved; there is always something impressive and touching in the emotion of the aged. And Lady Myrtle, one felt by instinct, was rarely demonstrative.
For Miss Alison Mildmay was, as Frances expressed it, 'a dreadfully early getter-up, and had always an hour or more to herself before the younger members of the household appeared. I am afraid Jacinth's attention that morning was rather distracted.
And when in another moment she began talking cheerfully about Jacinth's visit, and all she had done at Robin Redbreast, her sister almost decided that she herself had been fanciful and exaggerated about Frances making mountains out of molehills.
And but for Miss Mildmay's being particularly busy that week, and very engrossed by some unexpected difficulties which had arisen in connection with one of her benevolent works, she could scarcely have failed to notice Jacinth's extremely icy manner and unusual silence. But on Friday morning came a thaw.
And I wasn't in a hurry to explain; don't you remember that Lady Myrtle kept asking if we were sure our grandmother was only Mrs? Yes, that had been so, but still the slightly hurt feeling which Jacinth's tone about the dear Stannesley people had more than once given Frances still remained, and she might have said more, had not her sister prevented her doing so.
A short staircase of wide shallow steps ran up one side, disappearing apparently into the wall, and up this staircase, rather to Jacinth's surprise for there were several doors in the hall leading, no doubt, to the principal ground-floor rooms stepped Thornley in a gingerly manner till he reached the little landing at the top.
'And the Elvedons too are very grateful, continued her father, 'for besides what they knew was to be theirs, she has left them her town house a much better one than they have had hitherto. Then her favourite charities have no reason to complain; she has forgotten nothing and no one' Again he hesitated, and for some undefined reason Jacinth's heart began to beat faster.
Her conscience nevertheless was not absolutely at rest, and joined to her eagerness to tell her sister all she had heard of the Harpers' family history was now a slight fear of Jacinth's considering her indiscreet, and she was so preoccupied that, as she hurried out to the hall, where Phebe was waiting, she almost ran against Bessie, who was eagerly watching for her.
But this second reproof for her behaviour at Robin Redbreast did not find Frances as meek as the former one, which, in deference to Jacinth's superior knowledge on such subjects, she had felt she perhaps deserved. 'I will "fly up" as you call it, she interrupted angrily, 'when you talk in that cold measured way about dear granny and Uncle Marmy, as if you were almost ashamed of them.
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