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But this second reproof for her behaviour at Robin Redbreast did not find Frances as meek as the former one, which, in deference to Jacinth's superior knowledge on such subjects, she had felt she perhaps deserved. 'I will "fly up" as you call it, she interrupted angrily, 'when you talk in that cold measured way about dear granny and Uncle Marmy, as if you were almost ashamed of them.
Across the field they all came running, straight towards Marmaduke, who pretended not to see them at all, but just kept passing his Rocket ball from one hand to the other, trying to juggle it like the trick men in the circus. When they saw that ball, all the boys suddenly grew very polite to Marmaduke. "Lend us your ball, Marmy!" they said.
"My word! that been big fellow sit down like 'it here," cried Ferdinand, who, lying on one side, had his bare arm buried at full length in the sand. "I feel him, Marmy, plenty cold."
It reads this way: "The place of generation must break to give place to the generated; but the influence spreads out beyond the fragments, and is greater thus than in the mass neither matter nor mind can be destroyed. The earth was molten before it became cold rock and quiet world." There, you see, Marmy, that I am a fellow-student of yours.
Marmaduke stood irresolute. He was desperately afraid of annoying Miss Mildmay. 'Oh no, of course not, he began, 'but I'm' A sudden impulse seized Jacinth. She felt as if she must do something if she sat still a moment longer she would burst into tears. She sprang to her feet and caught her uncle's arm. 'Oh, do come back, Marmy, she said. 'You don't know. Aunt Alison, do say he must.
"She shuddered a little, then said very graciously, and as if he had meant nothing but kindness: 'Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. I will leave you now to your cigarettes; and because I must go out soon, and shall not, I fear, see you again this afternoon, good-bye, Marmy, till Saturday till Saturday. And she left us. "I was white and trembling with anger.
She kissed her hand to Marmaduke, and called out to him, 'How are you, Marmy? I was so indignant that I pushed him away from me, and told him to go and take a drive with his lady. He burst out laughing. 'Nonsense! he said; 'she has known me for years you don't understand our easy London manners. We have made it up since then; but I have my own opinion of the creature in the open carriage."
And though Uncle Marmy was too deeply in earnest to mind the snub, he wished he had answered less effusively. 'Do you think Eugene is like his father? he said quietly, drawing forward the little fellow, who had been standing somewhat in the background. The aunt's face softened again. And truly the boy was a pleasant object for her eyes to rest upon.
Afterward I was not sorry that I couldn't; for she rode for a fall that day on Carbine, her own horse, she had bought him of Major Karney a few days before, and I heard her last words as she lay beside him, smiling through the dreadful whiteness of her lips. 'Goodbye, Marmy, she whispered. 'Carbine and I go together. It is better so, in the full cry and a big field.
And wasn't it funny, Lady Myrtle, that last morning when we were saying good-bye to Uncle Marmy at the gate, we looked in at this garden, and said how lovely it would be if papa and mamma had come home, and we were all living together in a house like this! And to think it may come true, if you ask us all to stay with you. Lady Myrtle stroked Jacinth's hand fondly.
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