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Uncle Greig dined there that day, and cousin Robina, and, by an odd chance, Mr. MacEwen; and the presence of these strangers relieved what might have been otherwise a somewhat strained relation. Ere they departed the family was welded once more into a fair semblance of unity.
Labour, as Robina had been explaining to Veronica only a few hours before, exalts a woman. In olden days, ladies the highest in the land were proud, not ashamed, of their ability to perform domestic duties. This, later on, I pointed out to Robina.
Buffle" which also addressed him as her Preserver and her best of friends and was fully as cordial as the blanket would admit of. Also Miss Buffle. The articled young gentleman's head was a little light and he sat a moaning "Robina is reduced to cinders, Robina is reduced to cinders!"
As it was, her infidelity condemned him to a celibacy for which, as she knew, he was utterly unsuited. Therefore he thought of her as a cruel and unscrupulous woman. And when he thought of her he became more sorry for himself than ever. Now, oddly enough, the Grande Polonaise had set Mr. Cartaret thinking of Robina. It was not that Robina had ever played it. Robina did not play.
With it, it had brought down her hair. There is a harmless contrivance for building up the female hair called, I am told, a pad. It can be made of combings, and then, of course, is literally the girl's own hair. He came upon Robina at the moment when, retracing her steps and with her back towards him, she was looking for it. With his usual luck, he was the first to find it.
I looked again into the kitchen; then I returned and put my hands on Robina's shoulders. "It is a most amusing incident as it has turned out," I said. "It might have turned out rather seriously," thought Robina. "It might," I agreed: "she might be lying upstairs." "She is a wicked, heartless child," said Robina; "she ought to be punished."
By this time Robina came into the room with her hat on, eagerly, but with her face flushed and her eyes rather frightened, and as she received her brother's kiss, she said, 'The little ones are not come in yet. May I take my brother into the garden, Miss Fennimore?
Robina was lingering near, and as they joined her Felix found that his time was up. He was taken back to the drawing-room, where he found himself in presence of the lady he had seen, and of a much younger smaller person, with a slight cast in her eye, and a peculiar jerking manner such as he could well believe would frighten away a young girl's confidence.
Robina, who stood in the peculiar position of neither accusing nor being accused, would not add her voice to the chorus of welcome, and did not wonder that every hour wore off something from the radiance of the beautiful bloom brought from the Bailey.
'That's my affair, and nobody else's, said Lance, flushing up and looking cross at the allusion. 'And Fulbert told! added Robina. 'Will they punish you? asked Fernando. 'I think Wilmet will, because it was disobedience! I don't think she'll let me have any butter at tea, Bobbie nearly sobbed. 'Mr. Audley won't punish! But he'll look and she quite cried now.
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