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Updated: June 1, 2025
I looked at my Aunt Kezia, and saw that this was nothing new to her. And then I remembered all at once that she had hinted at something which we should see when we came home, and had bidden us keep our eyes open. The pack of cards did not come out at all. The next morning I was the first to come down. I found Sam setting the table in the parlour.
"If it can, it will be done," he made answer. He said no more, but from his manner I could not but fancy that somebody was trying to do something. I never had two letters at once, by the same post, in my life: but this morning two came one from Flora, and one from my Aunt Kezia.
Amelia rose with the air of a martyr, threw the scarf on her arm, and carrying her bonnet by one string, went slowly up-stairs. When they came down together, my Aunt Kezia said to Fanny, "My dear, you had better take a shorter walk another time." "We have not had a long one, Aunt," said Fanny, looking surprised. "We only went up by the Scar, and back by Ellen Water."
Wingfield was at home, meaning at first, to wait till he came back. I heard her afterwards explaining to grandmamma that the boy was rather deaf and she was afraid he had not heard her distinctly, so she had come herself. And while I was still gazing at the carriage and the ponies, the drawing-room door, already a little ajar, was pushed wide open and I heard Kezia saying she would tell Mrs.
She stopped, and her breath seemed to come in gasps. I was not a stupid child, and I had plenty of common sense. 'Granny, dear, I said, 'don't try to talk any more just now. I will call Kezia, and she must give you some water, or tea, or something. And I won't call Mr. Vandeleur horrid if it vexes you.
And I had such an unpleasant sense of being outside, and not understanding, as I never felt before, and I did not like it a bit. I knew quite well that if Father had been there, he would have said it was all stuff and cant. But I did not feel so sure of my Aunt Kezia.
Charlotte was evidently full of something very funny, which she did not want to let out; Cecilia, soft, serene, and velvety; Fanny looked nervous and uncomfortable; Hatty, scornful; while Amelia was her usual self. When dinner was over, we went back to the parlour. My Aunt Kezia gathered up her heaps of flannel, gave one to Flora and another to me, and began to stitch away at a third herself.
Her mistress and the young folks should have their tea in it that night, Kezia was determined. It was between five and six o'clock, near the usual teatime, when she came upstairs and said that Master Tom was wanted.
My Aunt Kezia and Mr Raymond have taken wonderfully to one another. Hatty said to her that she could not think how they got on when they chanced on politics. "Bless you, child, we never do!" said my Aunt Kezia. "We have got something better to talk about. And why should two brothers quarrel because one likes red heels to his shoes and the other admires black ones?"
"How do you know it is a 'her'?" asked Ralph, clumsily trying to put off time, like a man. Kezia laughed on her own account, Keren-happuch, because Kezia laughed, but Jemima said solemnly: "I hope she is of a serious disposition." "Nonsense! I hope she is pretty," said Kezia. "And I hope she will love me," said little Keren-happuch.
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