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'How hateful! a Londoner Laird of Lomore! Oh but he sha'n't be that long, for I am going to earn a fortune and turn him out! cried Vava, her eyes flashing. Stella laughed at her younger sister's vehemence, and inquired, 'In what way are you going to earn money, pray? 'I'm going to invent something.
This business being settled, she turned homeward with a feeling that now she had no more to do with Lomore, and that the sooner they left it and began their new life in London the better. In fact, this was practically what Mr. Stacey said: Messrs Baines, Jones & Co. would like her to begin at her earliest convenience, and the new term began next Tuesday, and this was Wednesday.
We shall hope to see you sometimes; it's a poky little street, and you'll be glad to get out of it, though even Belgrave Square will seem sooty and confined after Lomore.
'We shall soon make this look pretty; and, if you will use it, there is an extra arm-chair which they have sent down from Lomore that I should like you to have, said the Scotch girl. 'Thank you, I should like it very much, if you can spare it; but you must value anything that comes from your old home, replied Amy, who seemed a little depressed.
London is not Lomore, you know; besides, you will have no time to pay visits in school-hours, nor shall I have time to receive them. You must remember I am only a paid servant to these people, said Stella, with proud humility. She then continued, 'I cannot receive visitors as if it were my own house, though, of course, if anything were really the matter Miss Upjohn could send for me.
But the kindness of the Hackneys pleased her, and she did not seem to mind accepting civilities from them. It was Stella's house, taken in her name, and the other two were to share it for a year, furnishing their own rooms and a sitting-room; the rest was being furnished by Stella, chiefly from Lomore, where old 'nursie' was finding unexpected treasures.
I hope you will not think me rude, Mrs. Jones, but I could never go to Lomore again, Stella said; and she could not help the tears rising to her eyes, much to her annoyance.
They may not want to know us, for we shall be very poor; but I won't be patronised by any one, and I don't want them to call. Vava looked as if she were going to say something, but thought better of it, and gave the desired promise. There was nothing now to keep them at Lomore. Mr. Stacey's clerks had made an inventory of the contents of the house; David M'Taggart and Mrs.
Stacey's ready approval of their taking a small house, instead of remaining in lodgings; it did not seem like his usual caution nor the advice he gave them before they left Lomore.
'How do you know anything about that? inquired her sister in surprise; for unless her sister had been listening at the door, a meanness of which she knew her to be incapable, she could not imagine how she could guess what the new owners of Lomore had been proposing. 'Ah, ha! a little bird told me.
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