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While Robina was proportionably exalted by her preferment, and took to teasing every one in the house to hear her spelling and her tables, that she might not fulfil Edgar's prediction by going down to the bottom of the baby-class; and up and down the stairs she ran, chanting in a sing-song measure 'Twenty pence are one and eightpence, Thirty pence are two and sixpence,
It is the reflection that we, who meant so well, have brought into the world just an ordinary fretful human creature with a nasty temper of its own: that is the tragedy, Robina. And then you grew into a little girl. I wanted the soulful little girl with the fathomless eyes, who would steal to me at twilight and question me concerning life's conundrums.
But then they walked on for a full quarter of a mile before either said another word; and then it was, 'You don't think Felix looking ill, do you, Lance? 'I never thought about his looks at all, said Lance. 'No more did I, said Robina, 'but he does cough; I hear him through the wall in the morning. Do you think there is anything in it, Lance? 'How long has it been going on?
That loft and that violin made their fairy- land, and one that rendered it most unusually hard for Lance to learn his holiday task. 'I'll tell you what, Lance, said Robina at last, when he had vainly been trying to repeat it to her, with his eye on a sheet of music all the time, 'you can't do two things at once. If I were you, I would lock up that violin till the summer examination is over.
There were points at which I interrupted, but Robina never listens; she just talks on, and at the end she assumes that, as a matter of course, you have come round to her point of view, and persuading her that you haven't means beginning the whole thing over again. She said I hadn't time to talk, and that she would write and tell me everything.
I told him about the cow, but he said he was a practised sleeper and would be delighted, if I could lend him a night-shirt, and if I thought Miss Robina would not be put out. I assured him that it would be a good thing for Robina; the unexpected guest would be a useful lesson to her in housekeeping. Besides, as I pointed out to him, it didn't really matter even if Robina were put out.
He held the Miss Pearsons in greater awe, and ventured on neither; so that Robina had him for Sir Roger de Coverley, where the sole contretemps arose from Angel and Bear being in such boisterous spirits that Wilmet decreed that they must not be partners again. Of the rest, some had a good deal of dancing-master experience; Mrs.
'It's generally only one at a time. 'After a cricket match, eh? suggested Lance. 'But, depend upon it, said Bill, while Robina was recovering her laughing disgust, 'he may tell her her eyes are any colour he pleases by this time. 'How do you know that? sharply protested Robin; 'as if she would care for him more than for all of us, who can't spare her either!
The two little ones he merely kissed and blessed, but to Robina he said a few more words about being good, and minding Mamma and Felix. 'Oh yes, papa! And they'll have a Christmas tree! and I'll save all my bon-bons to make your cough well.
"Tremendous, Dick," I agreed. Robina called to him that his supper was ready. He knocked the ashes from his pipe, and followed her into the house. Their laughing voices came to me broken through the half-closed doors. From the night around me rose a strange low murmur. It seemed to me as though above the silence I heard the far-off music of the Mills of God.
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