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And to talk of being mawwied so soon at once!" "What else can we do? When you tell me that other men wish to marry you, you cannot wonder that I want to claim you as my own. You are troubled about Lord Everscourt, but if you were engaged to me the matter would settle itself dear, and it would be the best way out of the difficulty. I will speak to your father at once, and "
"That is to say, if I can contwive to do it without laughing outwight. It is too widiculous to think of Esther being mawwied! She is a born old maid, and I hear he is quite old, nearly forty, with grey hair and spectacles and a stoop to his back. He teaches, doesn't he, or lectures or something, and I suppose he is as poor as a church mouse. What in the world induced the silly girl to accept him?"
"Let me det down, pease," said that young lady, the first remark she had made. "I tan walk all by myself. I am not a baby any more." "Will you hear her talk?" cried Katy, catching her up. "Isn't it wonderful? Rosebud, who am I, do you think?" "My Aunt Taty, I dess, betause you is so big. Is you mawwied yet?" "No, indeed. Did you think I would get 'mawwied' without you?
Lady Cicely continued: "Now, this good lady, you must know, is not exactly one of us: the late earl mawwied into cotton, or wool, or something. So she said, 'Name your price for him. I shwugged my shoulders, smiled affably, and as affectedly as you like, and changed the subject. But since then things have happened.
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