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He was leaning against the mantelpiece as she entered, looking very tall and handsome in his long frock coat, and he was smiling to himself with a curious shiny look in his eyes, which at once arrested Pixie's attention. "How are you, Pixie? How are you, dear little girl?" he cried gushingly. Pixie remarked that she was in excellent health, privately not a little taken aback by his fervour.
I was so looking forward to a rest this afternoon. It makes the week so dreadfully, dreadfully long when there are no holidays!" Flora's voice was full of tears, and Pixie's miserable glance, roving from one speaker to another, grew suddenly eager as it rested upon her, for she was skilled in the treatment of headaches, and was never more happy than when officiating as nurse.
"Well, I don't know about being pretty," said Pixie's neighbour reflectively. "We have had lots of Irish servants, and they were plain enough. But the name sounds interesting `Miss Shog-nessie the Castle Ireland. It certainly sounds interesting. I'd give something to know what she is like."
"I wish I was born a savage!" was indeed her daily reflection, as she buttoned her tight little frock, and wriggled to and fro in a vain search for comfort. "Now listen to me!" said Miss Bruce, at the end of the examination which was conducted after breakfast the day following Pixie's arrival. "I am undecided which of two classes you shall join, so I am going to give you the choice.
"I don't wish to say anything in the least unkind to Sylvia you know that, don't you, dear?" cried Esmeralda the magnificent, sitting amidst billows of chiffon and lace, and smiling sweetly across the room. "But the fact remains that I am Pixie's real sister, and she is not; and I think a sister's claim comes before a brother's. Bridgie will have no settled home, and I am at Knock.
Pixie's mode of proceeding was to print an elaborate heading to her paper, and while away a quarter of an hour in adding ornamental flourishes to the double lines, and in elaborately darkening the down- strokes of her capitals. Then she would scribble on her blotting-paper, dropping intentional blots upon a clean page, and weaving them into a connected picture with no little skill and ingenuity.
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