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After a moment's consultation between the sisters, Kezia was told that she might return home, and the servant who accompanied the Miss Mohuns was sent to Raynham for the doctor. The next afternoon Lily was just setting out to inquire for Agnes when Lord Rotherwood arrived at the New Court with his sister.
'My brother and I are staying here, he said, as he crossed the little hall to the drawing-room door. 'We are alone here except for Kezia; we came here a fortnight ago from school, it was broken up because of illness. I think he went on speaking out of a sort of friendly wish to set me at my ease, and I listened half stupidly, I don't think I quite took in what he said.
Mrs Kezia had been insisting, in her usual style, that the boy required new shoes, a hat, and underclothing. "You'll be the ruin of me with your extravagant notions, Kezia," exclaimed Mr Fluke; "you'll spoil the boy. How can you ever expect him to learn economy?" He, notwithstanding, gave Mrs Kezia the sum she demanded.
"Yes, Cary; my business was finished last night, so I was just in time to come with you." And the look of fun came into his eyes again. "Oh, I am glad!" said I. "I wondered how my Aunt Kezia would manage all by herself." "Had you three made up your minds to be particularly naughty?" asked he, laughing. "Now, Ephraim!" said I. "Sounded like it," he replied. "Well, Cary, are you glad to go home?"
"As for my journey, I did not much enjoy it, but here I am, and that is well." "Your other niece, Miss Drummond, is in Town, as I hear," said Grandmamma. "Dorothea, my dear, it would doubtless be agreeable to Mrs Kezia if that young gentlewoman came here. Write a line and ask her to tarry with us while Mrs Kezia stays." "I thank you, Madam," said my Aunt Kezia.
"It happens to all of us sooner or later." Kezia lay still thinking this over. She didn't want to die. It meant she would have to leave here, leave everywhere, for ever, leave leave her grandma. She rolled over quickly. "Grandma," she said in a startled voice. "What, my pet!" "You're not to die." Kezia was very decided.
On the table there stood a jar of sea-pinks, pressed so tightly together they looked more like a velvet pincushion, and a special shell which Kezia had given her grandma for a pin-tray, and another even more special which she had thought would make a very nice place for a watch to curl up in. "Tell me, grandma," said Kezia.
Father was not at home, and to my surprise my Aunt Kezia would not take him in, but sent him on to Farmer Catterall's. I do not think the tawny eyes liked it, for though they were mostly bent on the ground, I saw them give one sidelong flash at my Aunt Kezia which did not look to me like loving-kindness. I feel to-night what I think Angus means when he says that he is flat. Everything feels flat.
She took both my hands in her soft white ones, and spoke to me so kindly that before I had known her ten minutes I was almost surprised to find myself chattering away to her as if she were quite an old friend telling her all about Brocklebank, and my sisters, and Father, and my Aunt Kezia. I could not tell how it was, I felt so completely at home in that Monksburn drawing-room.
"Follow your rule, Cary: set the Lord always before you. If it is anything which He would not allow, then you are justified in standing out. Not otherwise." "But how am I to know, Aunt?" It was a foolish question of mine, for I might have known what my Aunt Kezia would say. "What do you think the Bible was made for, Cary?"
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