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Updated: September 10, 2025
It was quite gone; she could never love her the least little bit again, beautiful and coaxing as she might be; like the mandarin, she had fallen all the lower because she had once stood so high. Then Pennie's thoughts turned longingly towards home. Home, where they were all fond of her, and knew she was not a deceitful little girl.
"Yes; but you must promise me one thing, and that is that you will not speak of anything that has to do with the garret or his accident." Pennie's face fell. "Very well, mother," she said in a dejected tone. "If you can't feel sure, Pennie," said her mother observing the hesitation, "I can't let you go." "I won't, really, mother," repeated Pennie with a sigh "truly and faithfully."
But being convinced that the death of this regret was the best thing for him, he did not long shrink from attempting it. He closed his chambers, suspended his connection with editors, and left London for the Continent. Here we will leave him to wander without purpose, beyond the nominal one of encouraging obliviousness of Elfride. 'The pennie's the jewel that beautifies a'.
Miss Unity's thoughts had perhaps travelled to that far-off country where the mandarin had lived, but Pennie's were nearer home. "Then," she said half aloud, "I suppose it really would be better to collect for Kettles." The voice at her side woke Miss Unity from her day-dream. The last word fell on her ear. "Kettles, my dear!" she said. "What do you want with kettles?"
Returning to Mr. Pennie's Tragedies, we must add that a more delightful collection of notes was never appended to any poem. Would that all commentators had so assiduously illustrated their text. Here is none of the literary indolence by which nine out of ten works are disfigured, nor the fiddle-faddle notes which some folks must have written in their dreams. A Landlord's Benevolence.
When Miss Unity reached them the children were staring at each other in silence, Pennie rather shy, and Kettles with a watchful glimmer in her eyes as though prepared to defend herself if necessary. Miss Unity took Pennie's hand. "My dear," she said breathlessly, "how could you? I was so alarmed." "This is Kettles," was Pennie's answer, "and she says her mother isn't any better."
The children at the vicarage found it wonderfully interesting more so than one of Pennie's very best, and the nice part about it was that it had been Dickie who discovered Andrew's little girl.
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