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Gunstone had his hand on Phillida's wrist, and he could not conjecture why her pulse increased rapidly at this point in the conversation. But he went on: "Have you really tried to get well? Have you wanted to get well as soon as possible?" "On mama's account I ought to wish to get well," she said. "But you are young and you have much happiness before you.
My second daughter, Augusta, went with her mama to visit the school, and on her return she exclaimed: 'Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look, with their hair combed behind their ears, and their long pinafores, and those little holland pockets outside their frocks they are almost like poor people's children! and, said she, 'they looked at my dress and mama's, as if they had never seen a silk gown before."
Between times they only "straightened" it. As the younger girls came in, and flung their hats on the bed, their sister turned on them reproachfully. "Martie, mama's furious!" she said. "And I do think it's perfectly terrible, you and Sally running round town at all hours like this. It's after six o'clock!" "I can't help it if it is!" Martie said cheerfully. "Pa home?"
Please be very careful not to touch mama until I tell you. Keep as far apart as you can as you go up to her. When you reach my mama's side, you may put one hand on her head and one on her wrist. 'Mr. Mitchell' says please have Frank take Mrs. Fowler's hands, so that every hand in the circle is accounted for." I was now very eager and very alert.
I had never been shown my mama's grave. I had never been told where it was. Yet I had never been taught to pray for any relation but my godmother. I had more than once approached this subject of my thoughts with Mrs. Although there were seven girls at the neighbouring school where I was a day boarder, and although they called me little Esther Summerson, I knew none of them at home.
Be very careful as you move about. Don't joggle mama. It's very dangerous to her." As I rose to comply, "Maude" called out: "Mr. Mitchell wishes the threads fastened to mama's wrists. He wants you and Mr. Fowler to hold them the way you did at Mr. Miller's house." Turning up the lights, we tied a strong silk thread to each wrist, and passed the ends under each arm of the chair.
"Maybe it was the furniture or mama's vases that upset you. Or was it mama herself or papa?" "Nothing 'upset' me." At that she uttered a monosyllable of doubting laughter. "I wonder why you say that." "Because it's so." "No. It's because you're too kind, or too conscientious, or too embarrassed anyhow too something to tell me."
"But it is of very great consequence, Madame, that we should preserve the guns, and powder, and shot. Supposing your friends, the savages, should come, how are we to kill them if I have no powder and shot, I should like to know." Felix warmly supported Oscar, merely saying, "If Mama's plan is a better one, I will choose that, but I suppose you won't mind, Oscar!"
She did not ask for prayer, and I did not volunteer to pray for her. As I left, her little three-year-old child heard her say that she wished Sister Cole had prayed for her while there, as she wanted to be healed and go to meeting that night. "Mama," said the little one, "I will pray for you," and she stepped up and put her little hands on her mama's head.
There was so much of gloomy and terrible in their mama's aspect, that Maria wept also; and Kitty and Lucy, with the little John, who had all been secreted in the bedroom during the adieux, dashed in screaming at the tops of their voices, as if the heavens were falling; and so sat the poor unfortunate family drowned in tears.
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