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'Father, she said in her soft voice; 'it is young Master Vane and the young ladies with a letter for you. Mr. Fairchild came forward, out from behind the counter. He made a little bow to Rosalys, who was the foremost of the group, and a little smile brightened his thin face as his eyes rested on hers. Every one was attracted by Alie, and her voice was particularly gentle as she spoke to Mr.
His father, who saw him chiefly in the evening, by the gas-light of the old-fashioned house, found his face slightly pinched: was his pocket pinched too, and would he be likely, before leaving, to ask help toward making up a deficit? His sister Rosalys, who lived a life of dry routine, figured him as deep in love. He let several days pass without hinting what the real situation was.
'Oh, I would like to see it, she said. 'It must be beautiful. 'No' said Rosalys, 'it isn't now. Some of the furniture's broken, and nearly all the chair-seats need new covers. But it might be made very nice with a little trouble, only you see Bridget has never cared to play with it. Biddy had drawn near and was standing listening.
One was tall and slight, with a fair sweet face a very lovely face, and one that no one loved and admired more heartily than did her younger sister. 'Alie dear, I do hope you've had a happy birthday, said Bridget sixteen-years-old Bridget! for Rosalys was twenty-one to-day. 'There are some birthdays one should remember more than others. A twenty-first birthday is a very particular one, isn't it?
Vane accept the offer of Seacove had been very important ones. Rosalys, and Randolph too, though in a less thoughtful way, understood all this, and both of the elder children were anxious to help and cheer their parents to the best of their ability.
'That's quite different; she knows old Lady Butler so well and and mamma's grown up and knows what's right, and you're a little girl, and you shouldn't do things like that without asking leave, said Rosalys decidedly. 'You're a cross unkind thing, said Biddy; 'and if you speak like that I'll not go on being good any more.
But he did not love his Grace of Osmonde, and though his rank and character were such that he could not well treat him with indignity, he did not regret that after his Grace's marriage with the Lady Rosalys Delile he appeared but seldom at Court. "He is a tiresome fellow, for one can find no fault with him," his Majesty said, fretfully.
To help adjust herself she laid her hands, with a soft, sweeping motion, on the two brown waves that drew smoothly across her temples, and then she transferred them to his, held his head, and gave him a kiss. Rosalys took his two hands warmly and smiled, and he tried to smile back. His father twisted the tip of his short gray beard, watched his son's mien, and said little.
Miss Neale was rather in a hurry to get home that afternoon, so she and Celestina did not linger at the tea-table as they sometimes did. By half-past four they had gone, for on Miss Neale's account tea had been ordered half an hour earlier than usual. Rosalys disappeared mamma wanted her, she said. So Bridget was left alone, for Rough had begun school some time ago.
Biddy was not at all fond of the reply, 'We shall see. 'It's only a perlite way of saying "no," she once said, but she dared not tease her mother any more. 'Nobody cares about what I like, she said to herself disconsolately. Perhaps she would not have thought so if she had heard what her mother and Rosalys were talking about later that afternoon.
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