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Alas! this was eloquence lost; for, at that very dinner, conversation chancing to turn upon the subtile malignity of Fanny Matilda's smiles, Fanny Matilda being there present, in less time than it takes to tell it twenty crayon smiles writhed and wriggled upon the spick-span cloth. "Mon Dieu! mon Dieu!" moaned Madame.
YOU. Not so loud. She'll hear you. Good job. I want her to. Stumer! YOU. S-s-s-sh! What are you saying? Matilda's a duchess now. FRIENDLY CREATURE. I know. YOU. But you mustn't say "Stumer" to a duchess unless FRIENDLY CREATURE. Well? YOU. Unless you're a duchess yourself? FRIENDLY CREATURE. I am. At least I was. Only I chucked it. YOU. But you said you were a lady. FRIENDLY CREATURE. So I am.
Quentin girls were nearer to Matilda's age than I, but they too were very happy and looked very nice in the hobble-de-hoy stage of girlhood. I am sure that they much preferred the company of their young brothers to the company of the drawing-room; but they did what they were told to do, and seemed happy in doing it. They had, however, several advantages over Matilda.
But when he looked at Aunt Matilda's immaculate horribly immaculate housekeeping, his heart failed him, and he would have said nothing had she not inadvertently opened the door herself. "How did you get here so early, Ralph?" and Aunt Matilda's face was shadowed with a coming rebuke. "By early rising," said Ralph.
Whether men and women paid less to the lord for a license than they were compelled to pay if they married without license I cannot tell; but that hundreds of widows must have married only a few weeks or a few days after their husbands' deaths is clear. Matilda's case was not a rare one.
"What do you mean?" said Norton, gruffly enough. Judy nodded her head at him in a very lively way over her strawberries. "They are latter-day saints, don't you know? They are going to feed everybody on custards not us, you know; we've got strawberries; but the people that haven't. Matilda's going to make them, and Davy's going to carry them round; and they're going out to buy eggs this afternoon.
You have but to say that this infant is his grandchild; the nurse we can easily bribe, or persuade to confirm the tale. I, whom he already knows as that respectable baroness, your Matilda's friend, can give to the story some probable touches. The lone childless man must rejoice to think that a tie is left to him. The infant is exquisitely pretty; her face will plead for her.
One of Miss Pole's stories related to a shadow of a love affair that was dimly perceived or suspected long years before. Presently, the time arrived when I was to remove to Miss Matilda's house. I found her timid and anxious about the arrangements for my comfort.
With so much, indeed, that difficulties, if there were any, disappeared; and Norton had little to do beyond finding out that she was, as he expressed it, "all right," and giving her new work for the next day. So went the work; very busy, and very happy too; only for Matilda's being shut out from greenhouse pleasures and Judy taken into Norton's partnership.
De Peyster loosed her grip on Matilda's arm and vanished noiselessly downward. "Speak up there," commanded Jack, "or I'll fire on the chance of getting you in the dark." "It's only me, Mr. Jack," trembled Matilda. "What, Matilda!" cried Jack; and from above, like an echo transposed an octave higher, sounded another, "What, Matilda!" "Yes, Mr. Jack. Yes, ma'a yes, Mary."
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