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When do you leave London? The disconnected query seemed to be subjoined to disperse the crude effect of what had gone before. 'I hardly know, murmured Christopher. 'I suppose I shall not call here again. Whilst they were silent somebody entered the room softly, and they turned to discover Picotee. 'Come here, Picotee, said Ethelberta.
Picotee flounced away from him in indignation, backing into a corner with ruffled feathers, like a pullet trying to appear a hen. 'How dare you touch me! she said, with rounded eyes. 'I'll tell somebody downstairs of you, who'll soon see about it! 'What a baby; she'll tell her father. 'No I shan't; somebody you are all afraid of, that's who I'll tell.
Chickerel could have wished to search for Picotee, and learn from her the details of this mysterious matter. But it was particularly painful to him to make himself busy after the event; and to appear suddenly and uselessly where he was plainly not wanted to appear would be an awkwardness which the pleasure of seeing either daughter could scarcely counterbalance.
Picotee, mistaking the purport of his inquiry, imagined him to refer to her arrival in the house, quite forgetting, in her guilty sense of having come on his account, that he would have no right or thought of asking questions about a natural visit to a sister, and she said: 'When you went away from Sandbourne, I I I didn't know what to do, and then I ran away, and came here, and then Ethelberta was angry with me; but she says I may stay; but she doesn't know that I know you, and how we used to meet along the road every morning and I am afraid to tell her O, what shall I do!
He was inclined to believe that some supernatural legerdemain had to do with these periodic impacts of Picotee on his path. She sat mute and melancholy till they were within half-a-mile of Corvsgate. 'Thank you, she said then, perceiving Sol upon the road, 'there is my brother; I will get down now. 'He was going to ride on to Anglebury with me, said Julian.
That was why I couldn't bide in Sandbourne, and and ran away to you up here; it was not because I wanted to see you, Berta, but because I I wanted 'Yes, yes, I know, said Ethelberta hurriedly. 'And then when I went downstairs he mistook me for you for a moment, and that caused a confusion! 'O, well, it does not much matter, said Ethelberta, kissing Picotee soothingly.
'I don't think so. 'She has married him. 'She is in distress. 'She has married him. Sol and Picotee took their seats, Picotee upbraiding her brother. 'I can go by myself! she said, in tears. 'Do go back for Berta, Sol. She said I was to go home alone, and I can do it! 'You must not. It is not right for you to be hiring cabs and driving across London at midnight.
You follow me, I follow Ethelberta, and she follows Heaven knows who! 'Mr. Ladywell! said the mortified Picotee. 'Good God, if I didn't think so! said Christopher, feeling to the soles of his feet like a man in a legitimate drama. 'No, no, no! said the frightened girl hastily. 'I am not sure it is Mr. Ladywell. That's altogether a mistake of mine!
You don't suppose a man will give his heart in exchange for a woman's when he has already got hers for nothing? That's not the way old Adam does business at all. Picotee sighed. 'Have you got a young man, too, Berta? 'A young man? 'A lover I mean that's what we call 'em down here. 'It is difficult to explain, said Ethelberta evasively.
'But we will not think so. We'll suppose you are to sing many to me yet. 'Yes. There's good sense in that, Picotee. In a world where the blind only are cheerful we should all do well to put out our eyes. There, I did not mean to get into this state: forgive me, Picotee.
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