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Frances went home that evening feeling very unhappy and terribly full of sympathy, while painfully conscious the while that as yet she must not unburden herself to any one, not even to Jacinth, of her whole thoughts and feelings in connection with the Harpers. And in any case she could not have done so, for Jacinth was away at Robin Redbreast till Monday.
And in response to a pressing invitation from the old lady, Miss Mildmay actually managed to spare or make time to come out to Robin Redbreast to 'spend the day' that is to say, three or four hours of it, so that she and Lady Myrtle might have a talk about the plans under discussion. The day chosen was the one in which Frances and Eugene were to return to Market Square Place.
Bird-biographies are always in our bookcases; and the bird-form meets our sight everywhere in decorative art Eastern and Western; for its aerial beauty is without parallel in nature; but the living birds, with the exception of the unfortunate captives in cages, are not with us. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage,
And Frances was conscious of a very slight feeling of relief when Jacinth, evidently in high spirits, though quiet as she always was, set off in state the next day for her visit to Robin Redbreast. She had made up her mind to enjoy herself and to be pleased with everything, and it was not difficult to carry out this programme.
His wife felt very miserable to think that their beloved redbreast had been sacrificed for nothing, and begged him to try a little bit. 'You felt so sure that it would do you good before, said she, 'that I can't help thinking it would quite cure you now. But the man only flew into a rage, and flung the bird out of the window. Then he got up and went out.
She had finished and sealed the momentous letters, and had come, with a sense of relief, from the table at the farther end of the room, on which those letters, ceremonious and conventional, had been written, come to the window, which, though mid-winter, was open, and the redbreast, with whom she had made friends, hopped boldly almost within reach, looking at her with bright eyes and head curiously aslant.
When I wake to-morrow, the world will be changed, frosty forests will cover my bedroom panes, the tree branches will be furred with snows; and to the crumbs which it is my daily custom to sprinkle on the shrubbery walk will come the lineal descendant of the charitable redbreast that covered up with leaves the sleeping children in the wood.
'A lonely Christmas would be nothing new to me, my dear child, she said; but she spoke without any bitterness. 'I'll stay with you, Aunt Alison, said Frances, eagerly. 'I really don't care about going to Robin Redbreast, and it's Jacinth Lady Myrtle wants. Do let me and Eugene stay here; Eugene needn't be told about it at all. 'Thank you, my dear, said their aunt. 'Thank you both.
'No, said Mrs Mildmay, smiling back at her children, 'I got one or two things in London yesterday. I thought you would like me to look nice, especially as I was going straight to Robin Redbreast. I don't believe poor dear Aunt Alison would have seen any difference if I had come back in the same clothes I went away in all those years ago. 'No, agreed Frances, 'I don't believe she would.
Sometimes the poet describes a choir where the tiny wren sings the treble, Robin Redbreast the mean, the thrush the tenor, and the nightingale the counter-tenor, while droning bees fill in the bass; and shows us fairy haunts and customs with a delicacy only equaled by Drayton and Herrick.
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