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Temperance, or have you set up a Salvation Army? 'G.F.S., of course, you Rotherwood of old! And now you are come, you shall save me from what has been my bugbear for the last week. You shall give the premiums. 'Come, it's no use making faces and pretending you know nothing about it, added Miss Mohun. 'I know very well that Florence is deep in it!
'Oh! my lady has been duly instructed in Merrifield perfections, and esteems you a model mother. The children's nods and smiles said 'Hear, hear! 'Well, you've got it all in her own letter, continued Lord Rotherwood. 'You see, they've got a caucus at High Court, and a dinner, and I must go up there on Monday; but if you'll keep this dangerous Fly 'I can answer for the pleasure it will give,
'Phyllis, can you dance a quadrille? Phyllis opened her eyes, and Eleanor desired her to answer. 'Come, Phyllis, let me see what M. Le Roi has done for you. He led her away, wondering greatly, and thinking how very good- natured Cousin Rotherwood was. Emily was much surprised to find Phyllis her vis a vis.
Nothing, perhaps, would have been too much, except to bear her in mind and steadily aid her in little things; but Lily took no account of little things, talked away her feelings, and thus all her grand resolutions produced almost nothing. Lord Rotherwood sent Mrs. Eden a sovereign, the girls newly clothed little Agnes, Phyllis sometimes carried her the scraps of her dinner, Mrs.
Lady Rotherwood greeted her nieces very affectionately, gave a double caress to Adeline, stroked her pretty curls, admired her beadwork, talked to her about her doll, and then proceeded to invite the whole family to a Twelfth-Day party, given for their especial benefit. The little Carringtons and the Weston girls were also to be asked.
"It's so terrible to be poor!" sighed Quenrede, thinking of the old, happy pre-war days at Rotherwood, when everything came so easily, and there were no struggles to make ends meet. She talked the matter over afterwards with Ingred. "If I could only help somehow!" she mourned. "I've often thought I might go out and earn something, but Mother's not strong, and I really do a great deal in the house.
Mysie had a certain confidence that mamma would not give her away if all the lords and ladies in the world wanted her; and Gillian confirmed her in that belief, so that no misgiving interfered with her joy at finding herself in the train, where Lord Rotherwood declared that the two pair of eyes shone enough to light a candle by.
For years and years she had planned her "coming out," and she had decided upon a ball at Rotherwood, and an absolute creation of a gown that was to be sent for from Paris. There would have been some éclat then in emerging from the chrysalis stage of the school-room and becoming a butterfly of society. To make her first grown-up appearance at Mrs.
"Very well, then, you had better go and have a talk with your wife," returned Malcolm. And Caleb went, and came back to Rotherwood the next day a sadder and a wiser man. "Well, and what did Mrs. Martin say?" asked Malcolm when he saw Caleb again. The little cobbler drew his hand across his eyes in an embarrassed fashion; he was evidently trying to recollect something.
'The moral of which is, said Lord Rotherwood, drolly, 'that Gillian is not to take notice of anyone's observations upon her unless she has heard them through the keyhole. 'And so one would never hear them at all. 'Q. E. D., said Lord Rotherwood. 'And now, Lily, do you. ever sing the two evening-hymns.
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