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He suited her in every way; except that now and then a slight suspicion insinuated itself that this very grand and dignified papa of hers, affectionate and even caressing as he could be when he laid his hand on her head and smoothed her soft hair, was laughing at her a little, which did not at all suit Jacinth's princess-like ideas of herself.
The gray frock was looked out and soon got ready. It was lying on a chair in the girls' room when Jacinth, a little before half-past one, at last heard her aunt's step in the hall, and ran forward to meet her, primed with her request. Miss Mildmay was still in a somewhat conciliatory mood, and she listened to Jacinth's story with as much kindliness as was in her nature to show.
I undertake to put it all right with Aunt Alison. Do go at once. If I have half an hour quietly to myself, I shall have finished my lessons by the time you come in it won't take you more than half an hour and then I can help Phebe. 'If I could see Miss Marcia Scarlett I shouldn't mind so much, next said Frances, still irresolutely. Jacinth's patience began to give way.
In terror of incurring Jacinth's displeasure, Frances tugged at her pocket-handkerchief. Out came, for the second time that day, the old Christmas card. 'What's that? said Jacinth. Frances smoothed it out and showed it her, reminding her of its history. 'I think it was that that made me feel rather queer this afternoon, first, she said. 'It brought things back so.
And though she reddened as she made what to her was really a painful confession, Jacinth's heart felt lighter from that moment. There was now no shadow of misunderstanding between her mother and herself. The very faint hope which the Mildmays Jacinth especially had cherished that, after all, the coming Christmas might 'somehow' be spent by them and Lady Myrtle together, soon faded.
'My carriage shall call for her about noon, wrote Lady Myrtle, 'and she shall be sent home, or straight to school, at any hour she names on Monday. Jacinth's eyes sparkled. This was just the sort of thing she had been hoping for, but with the self-restraint peculiar to her, unusual in one so young, she said nothing till her aunt directly addressed her, after reading aloud Lady Myrtle's note.
'What a good thing, with extreme self-complacency, 'I made you go in! what a good thing I was' after a great effort 'wursty! But Jacinth's face was slightly clouded. She drew Frances a little apart from the others. 'Frances, she said severely, 'you must have more sense.
It was again a lovely day the weather seemed to favour the visits to Robin Redbreast even milder than the Saturday of Jacinth's first stay there. And this time, instead of the brougham, a large roomy pony carriage came to fetch them, a spring cart having already called for Jacinth's portmanteau that morning.
She was barely two years younger than her sister, but on almost every subject on questions of good manners and propriety above all Jacinth's verdict was always accepted by her as infallible, though whence Jacinth had derived her knowledge on such points it would have been difficult to say.
The blood had rushed to Jacinth's face in a torrent, and for a moment she almost gasped for breath. 'Bessie, Bessie dear, you are such a whirlwind. You have startled Miss Mildmay terribly. 'I am so sorry, said Bessie penitently, and then at last Jacinth was able to answer the girl's inquiries, and explain how it had come about that she alone of her family was here so far from home.
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