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And we always pass by this way when we can, because of the gates. We call them 'Uncle Marmy's gates, for it was here we said good-bye to him good-bye properly, I mean. 'Kissing, and trying not to cry, added Eugene, by way of explanation. Lady Myrtle seemed a little startled. 'Uncle Marmy! she repeated, 'that was your grandfather's name. I thought your mother was an only child.
Do you suppose we shall go walks with the girls at our school, Uncle Marmy, or by ourselves with Phebe? 'By yourselves, I should think. You are only to be at school till one o'clock, he replied. 'Oh, that will be much nicer, said both the girls; 'we shall explore the neighbourhood. Oh what a pretty lane! for they were just then passing Robin Redbreast corner.
Do you remember our saying that morning to Marmy, how lovely it would be if some day we had a house like this for our home, and how he and we would pay visits to each other? Frances's face grew rather pink. 'Do you mean if, she said, her voice growing lower and lower 'if Lady Myrtle left it to us, to you? I don't like, Jass, to'
'So rich, said Jacinth, rather at a loss apparently what crime to lay at the doors of the good folk of the manufacturing town who had incurred her displeasure. Frances laughed. 'That's not a sin, she said. 'Lady Myrtle's rich, and so in a way, I suppose, is Uncle Marmy. 'I mean they seem to think of it so. Once or twice, when I've paid calls with mamma, they were so fussy and show-off.
'Jacinth is thoughtful and considerate beyond her years, thought she, 'but I do trust she is no way selfish or calculating. Oh no, that is impossible. I must not be fanciful. Marmy warned me that I might find her self-contained and even self-opinionated, but that is very different from anything mean or selfish.
"At last, knowing that she liked the hunt, I asked her if she was going to the meet on the following Saturday, saying that I intended to follow, having been offered a horse. With a steely ring to her voice, and a further brightening of the eyes, she said: 'You are a stout little sportsman, Marmy. Yes, I am going on Major Karney's big horse, Carbine.
No, it would be much the nicest for us to live here and you at Stannesley, and for us to pay each other lovely visits. Of course we'd always be together at Christmas and times like that. And your wife must be very, very nice like a sort of elder sister to us, you know, and' 'My darlings, said poor Marmy, to whom it had suddenly occurred to look at his watch, 'time's up or just about it.
It could not be anything but a sad walk, though they all tried to pretend it was not, and Uncle Marmy talked very fast and made all sorts of jokes, which Jacinth and Frances saw through, though they made Eugene laugh. 'Thetford's a very pretty place, really, said Jacinth. 'There are lovely walks on every side, I should think.
Old leather-face, sugar-eye, plar-bag marmy, I call it you." "Plar-bag marmy" meant "Mother Flour-bag", and ration sugar was decidedly muddy in appearance. She came round the waterhole with a clothes prop, and made good time, too; but we got across and away with our clothes. That little incident might have changed the whole course of my existence.
For, as a young child, she had spent some time in the south of France with her mother on her way to England, and she had once in later years passed a week or two in Paris with Uncle Marmy and 'Granny. But the special place which Lady Myrtle had chosen was quite new to her, and it had its own peculiar beauties and attractions.
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