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"I remember Lord Rotherwood's good nature and fun when he met the bedraggled party," said Magdalen, smiling. "That is what every one remembers about him," said Lady Merrifield, smiling. "You have imported a large party of youth, Miss Prescott." "My young sisters," responded Magdalen; "but I shall soon part with Agatha; she is going to Oxford." "Indeed! To which College?
'I should never ask you to conceal anything from Lady Merrifield. Besides, this is not a matter of conduct, only a report. Gillian would not pursue the subject.
Miss Mohun and Miss Merrifield encountered Miss Prescott and Agatha among a perfect herd of cycles, making Bessie laugh over the recollections of the horror caused at Stokesley by the arrival of Arthurine Arthuret on a tricycle twelve years previously.
'This is Kalliope White, Aunt Jane. Miss Mohun shook hands with her, and said her niece had been much pleased at the meeting, and her sister would be glad to hear of her, explaining to Mr. Stebbing that Captain White had been a brother- officer of Sir Jasper Merrifield. Kalliope had a very prettily-shaped head, with short hair in little curls and rings all over it.
Whatever the riches or the castle at Rocca Marina may be, Ada would, in a worldly point of view, give up a position of some consideration here, and I think that will weigh with her. As soon as possible, Lady Merrifield went up to see her sister, and found her writing letters in a great flutter of importance.
Afterwards, Lady Merrifield was taken to visit grandmamma, and Bessie gratified the girls with a sight of her special den, where she wrote her stories, showing them the queer and flattering gifts that had come to her in consequence of her authorship, which was becoming less anonymous, since her family were growing hardened to it, and grandmamma was past hearing of it or being distressed.
Of course, it is no object now, but I could not help thinking what it would have been to us to have discovered this talent of hers at the time when we could hardly make both ends meet. 'She will find plenty of use for it, said Mrs. Merrifield, who, as the wife of a country squire and the mother of nine children, did not find it too easy to make her ends meet upon a larger income.
In fact, Constance was perfectly absorbed in the contemplation of the successful authoress, the object of her envy and veneration, and only wanted to forget all the unpleasantness connected with the dark head on the opposite side of the table. 'Oh Miss Merrifield, she asked, in an interval afterwards, when hats were being put on, 'bow do you make them take your things?
Lena slept all night, and was so fresh and well in the morning that Angela foreboded that the examination might not detect her delicacy. They met Mrs. Merrifield, and took her with them to the doctor's, Lady Underwood Travis having placed her carriages at their disposal.
Stebbing, perhaps observing her listless looks, said that they were coming to what would be more interesting to Miss Merrifield, and took them into the workrooms, where a number of young women were busy over the very beautiful work by which flowers and other devices were represented by inlaying different coloured marbles and semi-precious stones in black and white, so as to make tables, slabs, and letter-weights, and brooches for those who could not aspire to the most splendid and costly productions.
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