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Friendly to all, he reserved his love for Steward alone, though he was not above many an undignified romp with the fox-terriers. "The most playful-minded dog, without being silly, I ever saw," was Dag Daughtry's verdict to the Shortlands planter, to whom he had just sold one of his turtle-shell combs. "You see, some dogs never get over the play-idea, an' they're never good for anything else.
That little lady was anxiously expecting him, and plied him with many questions on the spot. "How is she taking it, Arthur?" she asked. "I have been forming and maturing my plans, and I now think a resident governess at Shortlands would be the nicest arrangement for the girls.
He hated remorselessly the circumstances of his own life, so much that he never really saw Beldover and the colliery valley. He turned his face entirely away from the blackened mining region that stretched away on the right hand of Shortlands, he turned entirely to the country and the woods beyond Willey Water.
Just then she saw Miss Martineau crossing the street, and she ordered her coachman to draw up. "I have been with them, dear Miss Martineau they are delightful so fresh and so so pretty! They are coming to Shortlands to-morrow. Good-bye warm morning, is it not? Home, Tomlinson." The girls had entered the little house, cheered by Mrs. Ellsworthy's visit.
Ellsworthy chatted on, but she never got beyond commonplaces; she invited the girls to visit her at Shortlands, and Primrose, reading a great desire in Daisy's blue eyes, answered simply, "Thank you; we shall like to come very much." "I'll manage it when I get them to my own house," thought Mrs.
Losing money makes one's heart ache terrible, Poppy, and I would rather bear my own heartache than give it to another person." "Mrs. Ellsworthy is made of money," repeated Poppy, "and £17 10s. would be no more than a feather's weight to her. All the same, I can't make out what you're driving at, Miss Daisy." "I wonder if Mrs. Ellsworthy is at Shortlands now," continued Daisy.
I won't go to Shortlands if I have to behave like that, I won't," concluded spoiled Daisy, pouting her lips. Jasmine bent forward and kissed her. "You may do just what you like, darling little Eyebright," she said. "Oh, Miss Martineau, really Mrs. Ellsworthy is not at all what you picture her. I should say she was the kind of lady who likes a real romp.
But Jerry, at that moment, lay cuddled beside Villa Kennan's sleeping-cot on the slant deck of the Ariel, as that trim craft, the Shortlands astern and New Guinea dead ahead, heeled her scuppers a-whisper and garrulous to the sea-welter alongside as she logged her eleven knots under the press of the freshening trades.
The village of Rosebury lay low; but Shortlands stood on rising ground, and the more bracing air did Primrose good. When she saw how happy Mrs. Ellsworthy made her sisters she forgave her for not calling on her mother. Mr. Ellsworthy took a good deal of notice of Primrose, and showed her some of his pet books, and talked to her in a sensible grown-up way.
Ellsworthy was friendly, and she asked us to come and see her at Shortlands; and we are going. Miss Martineau, I am so very busy this afternoon; will you forgive me if I run away?" Primrose left the room, and Miss Martineau, turning to Jasmine, clasped her hands in some excitement.
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