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'It is much better to stay where you are, her mother said. 'You will come and spend the holidays with us, of course, as you do now. 'I should like to live in London best, murmured Picotee, her head sinking mournfully to one side. 'I HATE being in Sandbourne now! 'Nonsense! said Ethelberta severely.
This is all that I wish you to take to mother only a few little things which may be useful to her; but you will see what it contains when you open it. She handed to Picotee a small parcel. 'This is for yourself, she went on, giving a small packet besides. 'It will pay your fare home and back, and leave you something to spare. 'Thank you, said Picotee docilely.
Just beyond lay a turnpike-house, where was dimly visible a woman in the act of putting up a shutter to the front window. Compelled by this time to come to special questions, Ethelberta instructed Picotee to ask of this person if the place they had just passed was the entrance to Farnfield Park. The woman replied that it was.
When he had reached the door of the room, he looked back and saw the two sisters standing as he had left them, and equally tearful. Ethelberta at once said, in a last futile struggle against letting him go altogether, and with thoughts of her sister's heart: 'I think that Picotee might correspond with Faith; don't you, Mr. Julian? 'My sister would much like to do so, said he.
Be very careful; and don't make any inquiries at the stations of anybody but officials. If any man wants to be friendly with you, try to find out if it is from a genuine wish to assist you, or from admiration of your fresh face. 'How shall I know which? said Picotee. Ethelberta laughed. 'If Heaven does not tell you at the moment I cannot, she said.
'You see, you knew me before. Picotee would have withdrawn this remark if she could, fearing that it seemed like a suggestion of her love long ago. 'Then, on my return, I thought I would just call and see you, and go away and think what would be best for me to do with a view to the future.
'It is being too clever, all this; and we ought to be harmless as doves. 'Ah, Picotee! to continue harmless as a dove you must be wise as a serpent, you'll find ay, ten serpents, for that matter. 'But if I cannot get at him, how can I manage him in these ways you speak of? 'Get at him? I suppose he gets at you in some way, does he not? tries to see you, or to be near you?
Being in point of fact a complete bundle of nerves and nothing else, his thin figure shook like a harp-string in painful excitement at a contretemps which would scarcely have quickened the pulse of an ordinary man. Poor Picotee, feeling herself in the wind of a civil d , started back also, sobbing more than ever.
I'll tell you why when you have told me what happened to you. 'Nothing of importance happened to me. 'I expect you got to know the lord you were to meet? 'O yes Lord Mountclere. 'And it's dreadful how fond he is of you quite ridiculously taken up with you I saw that well enough. Such an old man, too; I wouldn't have him for the world! 'Don't jump at conclusions so absurdly, Picotee.
On reaching Corvsgate he found Picotee in the parlour of the little inn, as he had directed. Mr. Julian, she said, had walked up to the ruins, and would be back again in a few minutes. Sol ordered the horse to be put in, and by the time it was ready Christopher came down from the hill. Room was made for Sol by opening the flap of the dogcart, and Christopher drove on.
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