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White came in likewise, and thus had a full view of Maura's great wistful, long-lashed eyes, and delicate refined features, under a little old brown velvet cap, and the slight figure in a gray ulster. He did not speak while Maura answered Miss Adeline's inquiries, but when the cushion had been brought down, and she had taken it under her arm, he exclaimed 'Is she going back alone?
Val was reduced to silence, but there was a long instrumental performance afterwards, during which bad examples of chattering emboldened her to whisper 'Did you see Beatrice Varley? And Miss Berry, our singing-mistress and Alexis White? Maura says
"I always understood that it was a very good old family," said Lady Rotherwood. "Clement Underwood is one of the most valuable clergy in London," said her lord; "I am glad he is recovering. I shall be delighted to hear him again." Maura was standing under the pergola with Lord Ivinghoe. "And is not it sad for poor Franceska Vanderkist? Oh! you know about poor Mr.
'Here is one of the very young folks we were mentioning, said Ada, seeing her opportunity and glad that there was light enough to show the lady-like little figure. 'This is Maura, Mr. White, whom you are kindly educating. Mr.
Besides the absolute need of keeping her quiet, it would not exactly do for him to visit her while she is alone with Maura at Cliff House, and I wished him first to see her casually amongst us, for I dreaded her not fulfilling his ideal. 'Oh! 'When I think of her at fourteen or fifteen, with that exquisite bloom and the floating wavy hair, I see a very different creature from what she is now.
'Men are often shy of going near sickness and sorrow, said her aunt Ada. 'You did not hear what they talked about? 'No; Maura was at school, and Kally is a bad person to pump. 'I should like to pump Mr. White, was Aunt Jane's comment. 'If I could meet him again, said Aunt Ada, 'I feel sure he would tell me.
The girl looked exceedingly well, though little Alice, the maid, would not have gone out to tea in such an ancient black dress, with no relief save a rim of white at neck and hands, and a tiny silver Maltese cross at the throat. Maura had a comparatively new gray dress, picked out with black.
Hugh, in the mean time, had turned up Felix from the prone posture in which he lay, with a hope a frenzied, a desperate hope of ascertaining whether or not life was extinct. In this position the stricken boy was lying, his brother, like a maniac, standing over him, when Maura and the servants arrived.
Indeed, so close was the great house, and so minute a watch was kept, that the fact of Lord Ivinghoe's spending the whole day at the parsonage was known, and conclusions were arrived at. Maura stole down in the late evening among the olive trees, ostensibly to ask Anna and Francie to come and listen to the nightingales.
'And, added Aunt Ada, with equal severity, 'you know Mr. Flight is a very kind friend to little Maura and her sister. 'Indeed he is, said Kalliope earnestly; and Maura, feeling herself addressed, added, 'Nobody but he ever called on poor mamma, till Miss Mohun did; no, not Lady Flight. 'We are very grateful for his kindness, put in Kalliope, in a repressive tone.
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