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Updated: June 9, 2025
Schillie uttered something between a sigh and a groan, and then said, "You are an impudent boy, Master Felix, and I always tell your Mother you'll come to no good. But whether she will live to see you hanged or not I cannot say, for our fate is horrible every way. Just too as we were getting so comfortable, and having everything so nice and snug about us.
Some books in the Spanish language we kept, as the girls and I thought to amuse ourselves during the next rainy season in teaching ourselves Spanish. "Mighty silly," says Schillie, "taking such unnecessary trouble, as who knows but that there may be nobody to talk to ere long even in English."
"Where, little Mother?" said Gatty, winding her great arms round Schillie, who struggled in vain to release herself from the potent grasp. "June, June, con no, I don't mean that, hang no nor that, you horrid Well! I am in a vice, June, I say June, make her release me.
"If you please, little Mother, cannot we get off to the ship to-night; it's quite close, and no sharks to speak of." Schillie. "When your advice is asked, then you may give us your sage opinions." Mother. "Come, Schillie, don't be so cross to the poor girls. You know Gatty has given your own advice in almost your own words." Schillie.
"Well, that may be true, June, but you should not upbraid me with it now I am so sad; I don't pretend to be a fond mother, but I hope I am a good one." June. "Come! don't be so horribly pathetic; it does not suit you at all, but, if you are really very unhappy, the captain will be here in ten days or so, and then we will all go home." Schillie.
Schillie came last, dragging with her a heap of unknown lichens, creepers, and mosses, on all of which she wanted me to hold a consultation as to what they could be.
Schillie grew more reconciled to our being left on hearing this idea for she immediately took upon herself the care of us all, and the responsibility put her into some spirits on the subject. I asked when they meant to leave us. "The sooner the better," said she, "for then they will be the sooner back again."
It's a pity Sybil is so good as never to be in disgrace, for her little delicate fingers are of no use in such a case." Schillie. "Indeed Sybil and Serena are too stupid for anything. They learn all their books, they like all their lessons, they agree to all Madame's crinkums crankums, and they are so horridly good, it quite puts me out." Mother. "Pooh, nonsense.
Schillie, with the dinner napkin spread out with an air, her face still glowing, but bland in the extreme knowing that she had achieved a triumph of cookery, proceeded to serve the soup. I being the first to taste it pronounced it delicious.
"I was thinking of my poor little children, and how wrong I was to go and leave them all." June. "But you have not yet been away from them half the time, or, indeed, one-third of what was originally intended, when we left England." Schillie.
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