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Updated: June 29, 2025
They'll all be glad to get away; and we did try so hard to make it jolly." "Never mind," said Tom cheerfully, "it would have been worse if he had turned up before the grub and the fireworks. They didn't miss them. Keep it up, Jilly, I say; it's going off all right."
I beg to propose the health of my young sister good old Jilly. She's a regular brick, and has backed up no end in this do. No heel-taps!" A good many healths had been drunk in the county during the year, but few of them were more genuinely responded to than this. And no queen ever bore her honours more delightfully than the little heroine of the evening.
"Good old Jilly!" exclaimed Tom in his balmiest mood one morning, when these two young prodigals assembled for breakfast in the big dining-room at the fashionable hour of eleven, with Raffles in full livery to attend upon them. "This is what I call a lark and a half. Raffles, pass Miss Jill the honey; and walk about, and make yourself useful.
"But we're going to do The Caliph's Wedding out of the Arabian Nights." "Let's drop the Eastern touch," I said, getting up from the table. "It's sure to be overdone. Give them a page of Cervantes instead. Jonah can be Don Quixote. You'll make a priceless Dorothea in boy's clothes, with your hair down your back. Jilly can be Wait a minute." I stepped to the shelf and picked out the old quarto.
"Yes, Ma'm for my strength. It's that time again. I'm going north." "Take me with you." "Can't afford you." "Next year," she suggested. "Do my best," Don said. "Something to live for. There's not much up there, Jilly, just Yankees, shivering and eating beans." "I could stand the shivering. Want some grits?" "Read my mind," Don said.
"Wire in," said he to his guests generally, and to the younger Lady Marigold, his next neighbour, in particular, "before it gets cold. Awfully sorry the cocoa-nut milk wasn't enough to go round, so Jill and I thought " Here a guilty look from Jill pulled him up. Dear old Jilly, he wouldn't let out on her for worlds. A good many eyes turned curiously to where the Duke sat with his "go" before him.
It's Tom's and my first party, and we want it to be a jolly one." "I never enjoyed a party half so much," said His Grace. Jill thought him at that moment almost as nice as dear Mr Armstrong. "Jill," said Tom, waylaying his sister at the door, "we might have cut the herrings in three after all. Never mind, some of them will be able to have two goes. I'll see you do. Good old Jilly.
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