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We are all so sorry, so very sorry! Aunt Elsie is with aunt Vi now; and I oh! please, sir, may I go to Lulu?" "My dear little girl, I should like to say yes, for your sake, and Lulu's too, but for the present I think best not to allow her to see any one," he said in a kindly tone, and affectionately pressing the little hand she had put into his.
Lulu's relative, who lived at the Court of Monaco, got quite a snappish answer when she wrote recommending some further invention in the realm of marine research. The farmhouse kitchen probably stood where it did as a matter of accident or haphazard choice; yet its situation might have been planned by a master-strategist in farmhouse architecture.
Lulu, he said that Angela might marry Honey-Boy, as they were the nearest of age. He said that Honey-Boy would certainly cut her wings, that he, no more than Honey, could endure a wife who flew. He said that all earth-men were like that. Lulu, would you let your child do do that to my child?" Lulu's face had changed almost horribly. Her eyes glittered between narrowed lids.
Violet read that portion of his letter aloud to her mother and grandfather, then asked if they saw in it any thing necessitating a change in their plans for the summer. They did not, and were glad for Lulu's sake that it was so. Lulu, in the solitude of her room, was anxiously considering the same question, and presently went with it to her mamma, taking her father's note in her hand.
Now they shrank on the swing; they saw nothing but Lulu's determined disdain for their youthful naughtiness; heard nothing but her voice, hard, unceasing, commenting, complaining; and the obese and humorless humor of Mr. Harris Hartwig. "She can't make us go back confine us in this here home for old folks, can she, legally?" It was Mother who turned to Father for reassurance. "No, no.
Then he bade them say good-night, and go to their beds, promising that they should have other opportunities for saying all they wished on the subject. "'Tis easier for the generous to forgive Than for offence to ask it." In passing through the hall on his way from Lulu's room to the nursery, Capt. Raymond met "grandma Elsie."
But remember, Lulu," he added firmly, "I wholly forbid dime novels, and you are not to read anything without first obtaining the approval of your father or one of those under whose authority he has placed you." Lulu's face was full of sullen discontent and anger. "Papa," she said, "I don't like to obey those people." "If you are wise, you will try to like what has to be," he said.
School was a decided success that day, and neither teacher nor pupils saw any reason to regret the establishment of the new order of things. Evelyn came soon after they were dismissed, spent the afternoon and evening, and, when she left, averred that it had been the most delightful visit she had ever paid. Lulu's temper was not conquered, but she was more successful than formerly in combating it.
They sat in their tremendously varnished and steam-heated room on the second floor of daughter Lulu's house, and found some occupation in being gloomy. For ten days now they had been her guests. Lulu had received them with bright excitement and announced that they needn't ever do any more work, and were ever so welcome and then she had started to reform them.
Max was off like a shot in the direction of the water, and Lulu shouted to her sister, "Oh Gracie, it's such fun! I wish you had gone, too." Violet hastened to throw a waterproof cloak about Lulu's shoulders, and bade her hurry to the house, rub hard with a coarse towel, and put on dry clothing. "I will go with you," she added, "if you wish."
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