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Updated: June 16, 2025
I will write to your mother. 'And what shall I say to her? asked Jacinth. 'About all you have said, I mean. 'Refer her to me. But tell her how you are all we are all counting on her coming first to Robin Redbreast, and that then we shall be able to talk over everything.
Turning from watching these see, a redbreast has perched on a branch barely two yards distant, for, wherever you may be, there the robin comes and watches you. Whether looking in summer at the roses in the garden, or waiting in winter for the pheasant to break cover or the fox to steal forth, go where you will, in a minute or two, a redbreast appears intent on your proceedings.
'No, said Frances, 'I suppose not. It's only really the Harpers I care about, she added to herself. 'And now, she went on thinking, 'with this muddle about the old lady at Robin Redbreast if their mother doesn't want her to know about them, perhaps it's best for Jacinth not to see them much. And I'll have to forget what Margaret told me, after I've written to mamma.
'I have always felt like you, and when let me see, it must be fully twenty years ago now when, for the first time I really was perfectly free to furnish a house to suit myself, you see I carried out my own ideas. 'Oh, I thought Robin Redbreast was really old furniture and all, said Jacinth with a slight tone of disappointment. 'So it is, said Lady Myrtle.
He is said to bear a strong resemblance to the English Robin-Redbreast, being similar in form and size, each having a red breast and short tail-feathers, with only this manifest difference, that one is olive-colored above where the other is blue. But the Blue-Bird does not equal the Redbreast as a songster.
'And here's Robin Redbreast, exclaimed Jacinth, as they turned the corner of the lane, 'and "Uncle Marmy's gates" wide open in your honour. Generally we drive in at the side. Now, mamma, take a good look. First impressions are everything, you know. Isn't this perfect? She seemed full of enthusiasm, which her mother was glad to see and quick to respond to.
It was seldom her way to take the initiative, she was so accustomed to follow Jacinth's lead; and just now she had been quite contentedly waiting to speak of their visit to Robin Redbreast till her sister saw fit to do so. 'I I didn't know. I thought' began Frances confusedly. Miss Mildmay turned upon her sharply.
'To-morrow, you know, dear Jacinth, you are to drive with me, said Lady Myrtle, 'while your mother is going to have Francie and Eugene all to herself. Perhaps the result of Mrs Mildmay's conversation with her hostess during their drive that afternoon will be best shown by one of the letters which the Robin Redbreast postbag carried off that very evening.
The two days at Robin Redbreast passed most satisfactorily, and long before they came to an end Jacinth felt completely at home. It would have been almost impossible for her or for any girl not to feel grateful for Lady Myrtle's extreme kindness, but besides this, everything in the life suited Jacinth's peculiar character.
"I think," said Min, "that that unadded verse of his which is always left out of the published poem, is nicer than any of the regular ones; for it touches on two of my favourites, the violet and the dear little robin redbreast!" "You mean, I suppose," said I, "the one commencing "`There, scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year " "Yes," said Min, continuing it in her low, sweet voice
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