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"Do you find them?" he shouted to some companion, whose answer could not be heard. "What ho!" he went on in stentorian voice. Is there any one in this house who can give me word of a family of Merediths?" Janice reached forward and raised the trap, but her mother caught her arm away, and the door fell with a bang. "'T is all right, mommy," the girl protested.
"Yes, I am afraid, indeed," said the girl; "but you should have heard me two years ago. I could scarcely speak any English then!" "Well, my dear, I hope Gwladys won't catch your Welsh accent; but the Merediths have it very strongly themselves." "Oh! I hope they will like me," said Valmai. "I must not count my chickens before they are hatched!"
"Surely you told her we were great friends?" "Of course I did, my dear. Knowing your dear cousin and his dear father, it was not remarkable that I should know the whole of the family," and she smiled wisely from one to the other. Of course! How absurd she was, thought Lydia. She had almost forgotten, and probably Jack Glover had forgotten too, that the Briggerlands and the Merediths were related.
This was on a Tuesday morning, and on the same evening, before dinner, the vicar again seated himself in the same chair before the drawing-room fire, as soon as he had seen his horse led into the stable. "Mark," said his wife, "the Merediths are to be at Framley on Saturday and Sunday; and I have promised that we will go up and stay over till Monday." "You don't mean it!
From this deportation the Merediths were excepted, for as political prisoners, no mention of them was made in the orders issued by Washington and the Virginia Council; and so Colonel Bland left them unmolested, the sole residents of the once overcrowded village of huts.
He was held in that position while his hands and feet were tied with his own bridle, as many of the men as could get about him assisting in the operation, while the remainder, the Merediths excepted, kept up a chorus of approving remarks, or of gibing and mocking comments on the officer's half-smothered menaces and oaths.
When he heard in the morning how they had fared, he at once sought the commander, and by a shrewd exaggeration of the Merediths' relations with Howe, supplemented by some guineas, secured the banishment of enough officers from the house to restore to the Drinkers two of their rooms.
"If there's anything bothering Aunt Janice, I'd do anything to help her out." Nora was speaking softly. "Perhaps we can help," Don said, "anyhow we can follow out her instructions, whatever they may be." "I love Aunt Janice," Alice joined in, "don't you?" "She's a perfectly darling old lady," Beth replied, a sentiment that expressed the feelings of all the Merediths.
You are like our mother she was always weak and loving. I took after the Merediths." She did, indeed. Even in her coffin her dark, handsome features preserved their expression of pride and determination. Somehow, that last look of her dead face remained in my memory, blotting out the real affection and gentleness which her living face had almost always shown me.
The next hour or so passed rapidly in discussing the plans for the party to be, and all of the Merediths including Aunt Janice, were sorry when the hands of the old grandfather's clock began to warn them of the breaking up hour. After they had separated for the night, Nora and Janey kept on talking of the delightful hours that they had spent.
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