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Updated: May 6, 2025
But come down from your perch the dining-room door will not be open again for some time and I will show you about the rooms upstairs. This is a larger house than Mrs. Petherwin's, as you see. Just come and look at the drawing-rooms. Wishing much to get rid of Menlove, yet fearing to offend her, Picotee followed upstairs.
'Picotee, are you asleep? Ethelberta whispered softly at dawn the next morning, by the half-opened door of her sister's bedroom. 'No, I keep waking, it is so warm. 'So do I. Suppose we get up and see the sun rise. The east is filling with flame. 'Yes, I should like it, said Picotee.
Picotee lamely explained her outward reasons for coming, and soon began to find that Ethelberta's opinions on the matter would not be known by the tones of her voice.
Here was Christopher waiting to bestow love, and Ethelberta not going down to receive it: a commodity unequalled in value by any other in the whole wide world was being wantonly wasted within that very house. If she could only have stood to-night as the beloved Ethelberta, and not as the despised Picotee, how different would be this going down!
I know the place must be dull, but we must all put up with dulness sometimes. You, being next to me in age, must aid me as well as you can in doing something for the younger ones; and if anybody at all comes and lives here otherwise than as a servant, it must be our father who will not, however, at present hear of such a thing when I mention it to him. Do think of all this, Picotee, and bear up!
We will let the house throughout as lodgings, while it is ours; and you and the girls must manage it. I will retire from the scene altogether, and stay for the winter at Knollsea with Picotee. I want to consider my plans for next year, and I would rather be away from town. Picotee is left there, and I return in two days with the books and papers I require. 'What are your plans to be?
The concert was to be held at the Town-hall half-an-hour later. They entered a fly in waiting, and secure from recognition, were driven leisurely in that direction, Picotee silent and absorbed with her own thoughts. 'There's the Cathedral, said Lord Mountclere humorously, as they caught a view of one of its towers through a street leading into the Close. 'Yes. 'It boasts of a very fine organ.
She had come down on the wings of an impulse to unfold her trouble about Picotee to her hard-headed and much older sister, less for advice than to get some heart- ease by interchange of words; but alas, she could proceed no further.
I am determined he shall not see me. You know him a little; you remember when he came to the Lodge? 'What must I say to him? Ethelberta paused before replying. 'Try to find out if if he is much grieved at not seeing me, and say give him to understand that I will forgive him, Picotee. 'Very well. 'And Picotee 'Yes. 'If he says he must see me I think I will get up.
I am getting so alarmed about the health of the children; their faces are becoming so white and thin and pinched that an old acquaintance would hardly know them; and they were so plump when they came. You are looking as pale as a ghost, and I daresay I am too. A week or two at Knollsea will see us right. 'O, how charming! said Picotee gladly.
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