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Updated: May 15, 2025
About this time she made her famous remark to "Aunt" Martha Merrifield that she didn't think it proper for a woman to go through her husband's money with too sensitive a nose; she said that men must work and women must weep, and that she for one would not make the work of her husband any harder by criticising it with her silly morals.
Why, Uncle Regie is laughing, and Cousin Rotherwood! What is it? 'At the two partisans who never stand up for their own families, said Uncle Regie. 'But it's true! cried Gillian. 'What! that I am never mistaken nor deceived? said Lady Merrifield. 'Except when you took Miss Constance for a sensible woman, eh? said her brother. 'That I never did!
I believe it was what Lady Merrifield intended, you both looked so knocked up. Dolores cleared up a little at this, especially as Miss Vincent was no relation, and she thought it a good time to make her protest against mere English. 'Oh! she said. 'I supposed that was the reason she gave me such a stupid, childish, sing-song nursery rhyme to learn. I can say lots of Schiller and some Goethe.
White, in great delight, franked out Alexis and Maura to be present at the wedding, and a longing wish of Kalliope's that Mr. Flight would officiate was so far expressed that Lady Merrifield mentioned it to him.
'Stay, I believe she did break some glass or other, and blurted out her confession in full assembly, but I was over at Beechcroft, and I am happy to say I didn't see her. Mysie's tap came early to her mother's door the next morning, and it was in the midst of her toilette that Lady Merrifield was called on to hear the confession that had been weighing on the little girl's mind.
They "put him up to things," as he said; they made a variety; and he was always glad of listeners to his wonderful stories, which rather diverted the other boys, who, though they sometimes made game of them, were much less apt to pick them to pieces than was Sam. Poor Captain Merrifield! what had not befallen him, according to his son?
All had gone their several ways, and Clement, after the heat of the day, was pacing towards a secluded cove out of an inner bay which lay nearer than Anscombe Cove, but was not much frequented. However, he smelt tobacco, and heard sounds of boyish glee, and presently saw Adrian and Fergus Merrifield, bare-legged, digging in the mud. "Ha! youngsters! Do you know the tide has turned?
'She is not ready to see any one, and Bessie Merrifield cannot be spared; but I know Mrs. Grinstead will like to see us, and I do so want Mysie to see the studio. 'She is Phyllis's husband's sister, pleaded Gillian. Lady Rotherwood made a little bend of acquiescence, but said no more, and departed, while Gillian inly raged.
In spite of all our knocking about the world, our family exclusiveness is pretty much what ours was in the old Beechcroft days 'When Rotherwood and Robert Mohun were out only outsiders and the Westons came on us like new revelations! 'It is curious to look back on, said Lady Merrifield.
Lady Merrifield could not help thinking what a dull life it must be for Bessie, a woman full of natural gifts and of great powers of enjoyment, accustomed to a country home and a large family, and she said something of the kind.
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