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"Charlotte will be a most desirable bridesmaid," Christopher remarked after he had listened a moment, whereupon Renata became greatly confused and Patricia laughed without any embarrassment whatever. "Charlotte has not yet had time to signify her approval," she said. "I rely on her judgment to a great extent, you know. If she offers any objection we shall have to reconsider it." "I'm not afraid.
"I beg your pardon, Renata. Please will you mind looking for the mousehole?" "I tan't see the mousehole," put in Charlotte, "I only 'tend it." But Renata looked all the same. There was no mousehole and no golden penny. "It is all right," explained Aymer in answer to his sister-in-law's troubled look. "I know all about it. Don't worry your little head.
Renata never failed to respond and never failed to claim Nevil's protection and to look delightfully shy and dignified and feminine. Presently the children were sent for. To Christopher's indignant amazement they were plumped down on Aymer and allowed to treat him much as if he was a new species of giant plaything.
"Am I to congratulate you as a millionaire or commiserate with you as a bearer of burdens, old fellow?" asked Nevil, flinging himself into a big chair. "You will congratulate me, I hope, but not about that confounded money though. Nevil, you are Patricia's guardian. Will you and Renata give her to me?" He spoke abruptly and without any preamble, gripping the back of a chair in his hands.
Thus he had now three love projects under way, from two of which, those for Mary Stuart and Princess Renata, favorable answers were returned. But the volatile lover, before receiving these answers, had added a fourth string to his bow of courtships, having decided to propose for the Princess Christina of Hesse.
As concerning the rule of silence no one, to my knowledge, ever broke it in the presence of us little ones, save only Sister Renata, and she was dismissed from the convent; yet, as I waxed older, I could see that the nuns were as fain to hear any tidings of the outer life that might find a way into the cloister as though there was nothing they held more dear than the world which they had withdrawn from by their own free choice.
"I know just how it will be," he complained mournfully, "the moment Aymer is here you will hound me off to work and I shall see nothing of you at all. You won't even give me new pens. Charlotte, I should look horrid if I had no hair: be merciful." Renata smiled and shook her head. "I shall get no more work out of you this side of Christmas, sir. I have no such impossible dreams.
"It is so inconsiderate of Patricia, just as you have had such a journey. Why do you give in to her, Christopher?" "To-day is as good as any day," he answered her, "perhaps the visitor will have gone when we return." "Oh, I hope so," said Renata fervently, and then blushed at her own inhospitality. "I mean, Cæsar would rather have you to himself, I am sure."
"But I have been educated since I married: that is when most people's education does begin. We are only preparing for it before." "And if one never marries, one remains uneducated, I suppose." Constantia kissed her. "Your education is not likely to be neglected, my dear. Go to bed now, we will settle with Renata to-morrow."
You are very good at watching people work." "It is not a common virtue," pleaded Nevil, "watchers generally tell the workers how to do it. I never do. Why don't you tell a gardener to pick them, Renata?" "A gardener! For Aymer?" "All this trouble for Aymer?" "It is a pleasure."
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