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It was distinct that Jasper had fallen off, but of course what had passed between them on this subject was not so and could never be. Later, through his mother, I had his version of that, but I may remark that I didn't believe it. Poor Mrs. Nettlepoint did, of course.
Porterfield as the least of her evils. But it isn't very amusing." "Well," I judged after all, "that only makes her doing it the more honourable. She'll go through with it, whatever it costs, rather than disappoint him after he has waited so long. It's true," I continued, "that when a woman acts from a sense of honour !" "Well, when she does?" said Mrs. Nettlepoint, for I hung back perceptibly.
I'm sure she thinks there won't be any harm," I added. "That's the great point." "The great point?" "To be settled, I mean." "Mercy, we're not trying them!" cried my friend. "How can we settle it?" "I mean of course in our minds. There will be nothing more interesting these next ten days for our minds to exercise themselves upon." "Then they'll get terribly tired of it," said Mrs. Nettlepoint.
She was a poor creature on shipboard and mainly confined to her cabin, even in weather extravagantly termed fine as if any weather could be fine at sea. 'Ah, then your son's going with you? I asked. 'Here he comes, he will tell you for himself much better than I am able to do. Jasper Nettlepoint came into the room at that moment, dressed in white flannel and carrying a large fan.
Porterfield a nice person? I ventured to subjoin. 'Oh, it doesn't make any difference. She rested her eyes on me a moment through her veil, the texture of which gave them a suffused prettiness. 'Do you know him very well? she asked. 'Mr. Porterfield? 'No, Mr. Nettlepoint. 'Ah, very little. He's a good deal younger than I.
"That's exactly what I said to Jasper this morning." "And what did he say?" "He only looked innocent as if he thought I meant a fog or a storm." "Heaven forbid it isn't that! I shall never be good-natured again," Mrs. Nettlepoint went on; "never have a girl put on me that way. You always pay for it there are always tiresome complications. What I'm afraid of is after we get there.
If he did happen just now to be at home my solicitude would of course seem officious; for in his many wanderings I believed he had roamed all over the globe he would certainly have learned how to manage. None the less, in fine, I was very glad to show Mrs. Nettlepoint I thought of her.
It was just to have some one to speak to her and not sally forth like a servant-girl going to a situation. "I see, I'm to act as a sort of bridesmaid and to give her away," Mrs. Nettlepoint obligingly said. Kind enough in fact for anything, she showed on this occasion that it was easy enough to know her.
Nettlepoint proceeded to observe to such idle speculations does the vacancy of sea-hours give encouragement that she wondered whether it were better to be an ordinary girl very well brought up or an extraordinary girl not brought up at all. "Oh I go in for the extraordinary girl under all circumstances." "It's true that if you're very well brought up you're not, you can't be, ordinary," said Mrs.
'If you have questioned him perhaps you have tried to make him feel responsible, I said to his mother. 'A little, but it's very difficult. Interference makes him perverse. One has to go gently. Besides, it's too absurd think of her age. If she can't take care of herself! cried Mrs. Nettlepoint. 'Yes, let us keep thinking of her age, though it's not so prodigious.
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