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Tristram at the moment, "that your cousin, Aneta Lysle, is coming to stay with you?" "Oh yes; but I had half-forgotten it in all this excitement," said Cicely. "She will arrive to-morrow. Maggie, you'll be glad, won't you?" "More than delighted," said Maggie. "It is too wonderful," said Cicely. "Why, it will soon come to pass that half Mrs. Ward's school will be all together during the holidays.
She even went the length of personally introducing Maggie to Lady Lysle, excusing herself for the act by saying that Lady Lysle knew her mother. Maggie also succeeded in charming Lady Lysle, who said to Mrs. Cardew afterward, "I am glad you have introduced the girl to me. She is not in the least like her commonplace, affected mother. She seems a very good sort, and I like plain girls."
If I might let you into a business secret, miss, the people round here don't want the very best things; they don't, so to speak, appreciate them." "I quite understand that," said Aneta. "Of course Lady Lysle would require the very best." "She should have the best, miss; I'd be proud of her custom.
And then came Aunt Nannie, ambitious and alert as when she had helped the young millionaire to find a wife; and the young millionaire made the suggestion that Aunt Nannie's third daughter should not fail to visit Sylvia at Newport. There was no limit, apparently, to what he would do. He took Master Castleman Lysle upon his knee, and let him drop a valuable watch upon the floor.
Martin, I ask you to become grocer to my aunt, Lady Lysle, of Eaton Square, and to any friends who she may recommend, on the sole condition that you do not come to Aylmer House, and that you allow Maggie Howland to spend the holidays with us." "Oh, my word, I am sure I don't care," said Martin, "You promise, then?" "Yes, I promise fast enough.
"I admire her myself more than Aneta Lysle," said Janet Burns, "although of course all the world would call Aneta beautiful." "Yes, that is quite true," said Kathleen; "but I call Aneta a little stiff, and she is very determined too, and she doesn't like poor old Mags one single bit. Wasn't it jolly of Mags to get up this glorious day for us? Won't we have fun?
Lady Lysle said that at the present moment she did not feel specially elated at the thought of getting her tea and numerous groceries at a shop in Shepherd's Bush; but Aneta assured her that that was a very tiny sacrifice to make for so great an end as she had in view. "It will help Mr. Martin," she said.
Lady Lysle might be proud and perhaps somewhat disdainful, but she was at least as good as her word, and in a very short time Martin the grocer thought it worth his while to open a very smart-looking shop in the West End.
"But I can't imagine why she did it," said Molly in a tone of astonishment. "Mrs. Cardew never introduces either of us to the grown-up people." "Well, her ostensible reason," said Maggie, "was that Lady Lysle knows my mother." "Does she, indeed?" said Isabel in a tone of great respect. "But that doesn't make me like her any the better," said Maggie.
Lady Lysle gave the faintest inclination of her head. "Proud to see your ladyship," said Martin. "I have been making arrangements with Mr. Martin," said Aneta, "and on certain conditions he will do what I want. Will you please, in future, get your groceries from him?" "I will faithfully attend to you, my lady, if agreeable to you. I will come weekly for horders.
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