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Updated: June 9, 2025
Fresh disasters were being discovered every minute, and so much were we taken up by them, that it was not until late in the evening, when tired and exhausted we sat down to tea, that the much greater weight and dread on our minds returned in full force. After a silence, Schillie looked at me and nodded. I tried to speak, but the words would not come, they died away in whispers.
I only wish to confide my beloved little ones to your care after I am gone." Schillie. "But I hate children, Madame. June will take care of them." Madame. "Ah, I know she will; but she is so fond, so tender a Mother, she sees no faults in them. There is my darling Sybil, she is certainly, if a human being can be, faultless." Schillie.
They separated to perform their own tasks until dinner time, after which Schillie and I intended between us to enter into a full discussion of our present state, and future lot, assisted by Madame, before them all.
"She is a very good soul in her way, Madame, but shockingly untidy." Madame. "But her lovely smile, her sweet engaging manners. My Serena is something like her, but, being so much with Gertrude, she is a little less ladylike in manners than I could wish. Could you, dear Mrs. E., just hint to her when I am gone " Schillie. "Oh, good lack! no, Madame, I can hint nothing.
This frightful notion spread; Jenny took to tears Madame was quite affected Schillie recommended an emetic Hargrave rushed to put it in force and Felix was overwhelmed with questions as to what he felt; had he a pain? where was his pain? did he feel odd? was he sure he felt nothing? and it was nearly an hour ere he was suffered to go to bed, with no other remedy than a good fright, and the next day he appeared as pert as ever, recommending those that did not like certain lesson books to eat them up, for, after all, he added, "books are not so nasty to eat as to learn."
Madame, with Sybil and her three little maidens, prepared the breakfast. Gatty and Serena ran for water, the maids put the tents to rights, the boys lighted the fire. Schillie and I sat looking on, acting company. I with admiring eyes, on the lovely scenery and pretty figures, she with inquisitive looks, scanning each unknown plant, moss, bird, or stone, and conjecturing their names and qualities.
Write a page for that beautiful journal, for you have got something rather more interesting to detail than heretofore." Mother. "Schillie, I shall really begin to think you quite heartless." Schillie. "Pray do. I only wish it was the case, for I doubt our hearts will be sadly torn to bits the next few days."
"Why, Ma'am, from all I could see of this island, there isn't much room for them and us, and there cannot be many of them at any rate. If there are, they will show themselves soon." Schillie. "I would advise an exploring excursion, that we may see who has possession of this island besides ourselves. It would be as well to know if we have foes, either man or beasts.
"Fun did you say, my dear child? Poor deceived child." Gatty. "Not deceived at all, Madame, and, besides, we all think it fun." Sybil. "Yes, Madame, I think it very amusing to feel so safe and secure, and yet to be able to watch them so well." Serena. "And you know, Madame, it gives us such advantage; we know all about them, and they know nothing about us." Schillie.
All sorts of pranks go on between Smart and the boys during dinner. Felix trying to upset his solemn gravity, while Oscar sends him with preserved ginger to Schillie's duck, roasted potatoes to Madame's tapioca pudding, whereby he gets very shamefaced, as Schillie, with blunt sincerity, points out his mistake.
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