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Do you want me to come wooing in a Prince Prettyman's dress from the masquerade warehouse, and to pay you compliments like Sir Charles Grandison? Do you want me to make you verses as in the days when we were when we were children? I will if you like, and sell them to Bacon and Bungay afterwards. Shall I feed my pretty princess with bonbons?"
And Grace went to her room, never turning an eye down towards the hall. "Who is it?" said Miss Prettyman. "Major Grantly is here, asking to see you," said Miss Anne. Miss Prettyman's Private Room
"We'll let you know some way," she promised. Still pursued by Miss Prettyman's icy glare, the wretched boys backed out of the room and the unfortunate Tommy walked into a handsome china jardiniere with disastrous results. There was a sickening crash, a ladylike scream from Miss Prettyman, and Betty heard Bob's voice in a tone of suppressed fury: "You've done it now, you idiot!"
But when one thinks of going beyond friendship, even if one tries to do so, there are so many barriers! Your affectionate friend, Mamma bids me say that she would be delighted to have you here whenever it might suit you to come; and I add to this message my entreaty that you will come at once. You say that you think you ought to leave Miss Prettyman's for a while.
Eustice, young man?" the teacher demanded next. "I am her secretary and try to save her work whenever possible. Perhaps I can answer your question." Behind Miss Prettyman's narrow back Betty signaled wildly. "Don't tell hush!" she wig-wagged, laying her finger against her lips. Tommy stared at her idiotically, his mouth gaping. "Thank you, but only Mrs.
Mr Crawley had not only failed to do this, but had given two false excuses. Henry Grantly, as he drove home to Silverbridge on the Sunday afternoon, summed up all the evidence in his own mind, and brought in a verdict of Guilty against the father of the girl whom he loved. On the following morning he walked into Silverbridge and called at Miss Prettyman's house.
One of those emeralds, she was thinking, was worth fifty times more than old Lizzie Prettyman's cottage: the sale of one of them would have averted that other sale which was to cause so much distress to a poor harmless old woman. "When do you wear your jewels, Aunt de Tracy?" she asked gravely.
I'm come to do some business at Stoke Revel," he added, for the old face had clouded over, and Mrs. Prettyman's whole expression changed to one of timid mistrust. "I really was sent by Mrs. de Tracy," he went on, turning to Robinette, "to take you home; Mrs. Loring, isn't it?" "Yes, I am Mrs. Loring," she said, frankly holding out her hand to him.
Will such feeling leave anything real behind it when it falls away, as the white blossoms on Mrs. Prettyman's plum tree will shrink and fall a fortnight hence?" He looked about him. On the walls of the little church were tablets with the de Tracy names; the names of her forefathers amongst them.
"And when one knows the people it does make it so dreadful." "But do you know them? I never spoke to Mr Crawley in my life, and I do not think I ever saw her." "I knew Grace very well, when she used to come first to Miss Prettyman's school." "Poor girl. I pity her." "Pity her! Pity is no word for it, mamma. My heart bleeds for them. And yet I do not believe for a moment that he stole the cheque.
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