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Originating was usually done higher up; as the Papal Council gives forth new spiritual inventions for the joyful acceptance of believers, who may by no means invent in their turn and offer to the Council. One could hardly tell how it would fall out, whether the Haddens and the Marchbankses would take to it, or whether it would drop right there.
They have not a very great deal of money, like the Haddens, and they are not foremost in everything like the Marchbankses; somehow they do not seem to care to take the trouble for that; but they are so established; it is a family like an old tree, that is past its green branching time, and makes little spread or summer show, but whose roots reach out away underneath, and grasp more ground than all the rest put together.
"Did you say anything?" asked Rosamond. "Yes. I suppose I ought not; but Elinor was in the room, and I spoke before I thought." "What did you tell her?" "I only said it was such a pity; that you meant to ask them all. And Elinor said it would be so nice here. If it were anybody else, we might try to arrange something." But how could we meddle with the Marchbankses?
The Marchbankses had other visitors, people whom we did not know, and in whose way we were not thrown; the haute volée was sufficient to itself again, and we lived on a piece of our own life once more. "It's rather nice to knit on straight," said Barbara; "without any widening or narrowing or counting of stitches. I like very well to come to a plain place."
You see the plain, insignificant people are so apt to be nearest the good time!" "I like to satisfy everybody." "You won't, with a squirm-fence!" If it had not been for Ruth, we should have gone on just as innocently as possible, and invited them Marchbankses and all to our Halloween frolic. But Ruth was such a little news-picker, with her music lessons!
Of course she did not do this when the Marchbankses were there, or if Miss Pennington called; but she could not resist the Haddens and Leslie Goldthwaite; besides, "they did have to make their own cake, and why should they be ashamed of it?" Rosamond would reply that "they did have to make their own beds, but they could not bring them down stairs for parlor work."
With Olivia and Adelaide, of all the Marchbankses? We could not take it for granted that they meant to ask us. There was no such thing as suggesting a compromise. Rosamond looked high and splendid, and said not another word. In the afternoon of Wednesday Adelaide and Maud Marchbanks rode by, homeward, on their beautiful little brown, long-tailed Morgans. "They don't mean to," said Barbara.
It was such a thing as had never rolled up, or branched out, though, in Westover before. The Marchbankses did not know what to make of it. People got in who had never belonged.
She stopped in at the Haddens, told them how sorry she had been to find they were promised; asked if it were any use to go to the Hendees'; and when Elinor said, "But you will be sure to be asked to the Marchbankses yourselves," replied, "It is a pity they should come together, but we had quite made up our minds to have this little frolic, and we have begun, too, you see."
There were a good many of us by this time, Olivia, and Adelaide, and the servant-girls released from below, besides the other Marchbankses, and the Hobarts, and people who came in, until Elijah stopped them. He shut the heavy walnut doors that led from drawing-room and library to the hall, and turned the great keys in their polished locks.
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