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What she wants is a refining influence the companionship of some nice, lady-like girls, like the Merridews, instead of romping about so much with her brothers and Nancy, who is quite as bad as a boy. But how to make Mary see it!" Miss Unity sighed heavily when she came to this point. She felt that Pennie's future was in some measure in her hands, and it was a very serious burden.
This had unfortunately been broken by a friend of Pennie's whilst the two girls were on a visit at Nearminster; and though it had not been her fault, Pennie felt as if she were responsible for the accident.
The room in which they sat looked out into the Close. It increased Pennie's misery this afternoon to see how bright and pleasant everything was outside, how the sunlight played about the carved figures on the west front of the Cathedral, how the birds darted hither and thither, and how the fallen leaves danced and whirled in the breeze.
Do you know," she added, seizing hold of David's black kitten, "that mother says we may go and see old Nurse?" Pennie's brow cleared at once, the peevish look left her face. "Oh, when?" she exclaimed joyfully. "This afternoon," said Nancy. "Mother's going to drive into Nearminster, and leave us at the College while she goes to see Miss Unity. Isn't it jolly?"
Of course these quarrels were all their fault, for in Pennie's eyes Ethelwyn could do no wrong; if sometimes it was impossible to help seeing that she was greedy and selfish, and even told fibs, Pennie excused it in her own mind indeed, these faults did not seem to her half so bad in Ethelwyn as in other people, and by degrees she thought much more lightly of them than she had ever done before.
Nancy's muttered reply showed that she was very nearly asleep, so for that night there was no further conversation about Pennie's dancing, but it was by no means altogether given up. On the contrary it was a very favourite topic with all the children, for it seemed to have added to their eldest sister's dignity to be singled out as the only one to join the class at Nearminster.
Pennie's jackdaw, a forward bird, who hopped about with an air of understanding everything, was one day found perched on the tortoise's shell with the evident intention of making some searching inquiries. Methuselah, however, had very prudently drawn in his head, and Jack was both baffled and disgraced. Next to the animals in point of interest came the Wilderness.
"Perhaps we had better think it over and do it to-morrow," she said, pausing at the door of a linen-draper's shop. "Kettles wants clothes very badly," said Pennie, "and I shall be a long while making them. I should think we'd better get it now. But shall you go to Bolton's?" she added; "mother always goes to Smith's." "Bolton's" was a magnificent place in Pennie's eyes.
But I grieve far more to think you should have tried to deceive me. Perhaps I can mend the mandarin, but I can't ever forget that you have been dishonest nothing can mend that. I shall think of it whenever I see the image, and it will make me sad." The little voice struggled and fought in Pennie's breast to make itself heard: "I didn't do it, I didn't do it," it cried out wildly.
Ethelwyn was very impatient long before the shopping was done. "Oh, spend the rest in sweets," she said over and over again in the midst of Pennie's difficulties. But Pennie only shook her head, and would not even look at chocolate creams or sugar-candy until she had done her business satisfactorily.
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