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'Oh, that's Maura White! said Valetta. 'I say, isn't she going with us? 'Oh no, she has to look after her sister! 'Don't you think we might take her, Gill? said Fly. 'She never gets any fun. 'I don't think she ought to leave Kalliope to-day, Fly, for nurse is going down to Il Lido; and besides, Aunt Jane said we must not take all Rockquay with us.
A gives the egg of the small white butterfly; B, that of the small tortoiseshell; C, that of the waved umber moth; D, that of the thorn moth; E, that of the shark moth; at F we have the delicate egg of the small emerald butterfly, and at G an American skipper; and finally, at H, the egg of a moth known as mania maura.
In the matter of bridesmaids Gillian certainly had the advantage, for she was amply provided with sisters and cousins, Dolores coming for a few days for the wedding; whereas the six whom Maura had provided for beforehand in Paris were only, as Miss Jane said, "scraped up" with difficulty from former schoolfellows. Lord Roger's nieces would not hear of being present.
'I won't get you into trouble, for I think you are sorry you treated one of our own in such a manner. 'I wouldn't, indeed, if I had known. 'I shall only explain that I have found out whom Maura belongs to. I should go and see them at once, only I must make Val find out where she lives.
'If there is anything else he wants very much, how could he let me know? mused Gillian. 'Oh, I see! What time are you at the works? 'Alex is there at seven; I don't go till nine. 'I am to be at the station at 8.40. Could you or Maura meet me there and tell me? To this Kalliope agreed, for she said she could be sure of getting to her post in time afterwards, and she seemed quite overjoyed.
'But Maura is not the youngest of you, said Gillian, who was rather hazy about the family. 'No, there are the two little boys. We let them go to the National School for the present. It is a great trial to my poor mother, but they do learn well there, and we may be able to do something better for them by the time they are old enough for further education.
Maura, who suddenly averted her face when he addressed her, made no reply; but after he had departed from the threshold, her eyes followed him, and the tears slowly forced their way down her cheeks. "It's no use," said she, "it's no use, I love him, I love my kind brother in spite of every thing. May God bless you Felix! may God bless you, and all you love!
Maura is quite bent upon it, and she has arrived at turning her uncle round her finger so much that I am sometimes hardly mistress of the house! Oh, I don't tell any one, not Lily nor any one, but it will really be a relief to me when she is gone, with her Greek coaxing ways. Her uncle is wrapped up in her, and so proud of her being a Duchess that he would condone anything.
According to this view, the State is the best possible state, and its organization is considered so perfect that its laws, discipline and formulae are held to be sacred and immutable in men's eyes. Maura and all conservatives must be reckoned in this group, and Lerroux too, appears to belong with them, as he holds discipline in such exalted respect.
Then came Jane Mohun to deposit a handkerchief which some one had dropped. "I can stay a moment," she said; "no one will come to buy till the masque is ended. Oh, this red cloak will be the death of me!" "You look highly respectable without it." "I shall only put it on for the coup d'oeil at first. Oh, Geraldine, what is to be done with that horrid little Maura?"
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