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It was provoking; I wanted Noll to continue absent in mind, or prove disobedient, or something, but you good folks are so conscientious." "Duty first, and then pleasure," said Lilias emphatically. "That was a Sunday-school speech, Lilias, and spoken out of school; you ought to pay a forfeit; fine her, Susie." "Aren't you hot, Polly?" asked Susan, without troubling herself to take up the jest.
But the pleasant May days did not make Lilias her old self again. She did not begin to sing with the birds, though she tried sometimes. The old burden was there, and she could not. Often she accused herself of ingratitude, and wondered what ailed her, that she could not be so cheerful as she used to be. The feeling of weariness and depression did not wait now till the children had gone home.
Carmel, indeed, though an unacknowledged sovereign, had managed to win all hearts at the Chase. Even Lilias did not now resent the ownership of one who so rarely urged her own claims; insensibly she had grown fond of her cousin, and liked her company. The summer holiday promised to be as pleasant as that of last Christmas. Mr.
James, his only son, was six years old when his mother died, but there were five daughters of all ages, who were always ready to play with the boy. To be sure, the two eldest, Lilias and Margaret, married early, and before two years had passed by one was lady Colquhoun and the other lady Napier of Merchiston.
"It's nearly a year since I left home," she explained, "so it's time they let me go and see them. I couldn't take Lilias without Dulcie, it wouldn't be kind, and even Miss Walters saw that, though she held out at first. Then Everard has been working very hard, and needs a change, but, if Mr.
Miss Jane, there will be another confirmation some day; it was a sad thing you were too ill, to be sure, but 'Oh! if I had if he would not say if he had thought me fit. Esther was amazed, and asked if she should call Miss Weston, who was now with Lilias. 'No, no! cried Jane, nearly relapsing into hysterics. 'She shall not see me in this state.
It is my prayer that his young son may do the like, and that my Lord of York be not fretted out of his peaceful loyalty by the Somerset "outrecuidance", and above all that my own son be not the make-bate; but Richard is proud and fiery, and I fear I greatly fear, what may be in store for us. Lilias thought of Eleanor's vision, but kept silence respecting it.
I suppose neither had much difficulty in guessing the identity of the other." "He thought I was Lilias!" said Nan, glancing at Gervase with laughing eyes. "Think of that! He will be surprised when he sees her, won't he? But I knew who he was in a moment. Now, tell me honestly, would you rather I went away?
'Those are realities, indeed, said Alethea; 'our greatest efforts seem but child's play in comparison. Lilias could hardly have helped being sobered by this conversation if she had attended to it, but she had turned away to repeat the story of Mrs. Walls to Jane, and then, fancying that the others were still remarking upon it, she said in a light, laughing tone, 'Well, so far I agree with you.
Lilias clung to Ned's arm, Mrs Rendell and Elsie minced along with tiny footsteps, and Nan waited until no one was looking, and then gave giant strides from one mat to another, or clung to a friendly rail to help her round slippery corners.
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