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His affections seemed to have gone out chiefly to Felix and to Sibby; and as to his twin-sister, he seemed lost without her, and she seemed to view him as the complement of herself like a sort of left hand, giving him things to hold in his feeble grasp, saying her lessons to him, and talking as if to a doll.
He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who fears to put it to the touch, To win or lose it all. If Sibby hoped to keep her "long boy" from being "mislested," she was mistaken. He knew too well what was to come, and when she knocked at his door with his cup of tea, he came to it half dressed, to her extreme indignation, calling for his shaving water.
Audley called her stool of repentance, outside the door, till she had sobbed herself into exhaustion and calm or till either Sibby scolded her, or he heard her confession. She had been 'so cross' to Bernard, or to Angel or, once or twice, even to Mamma.
And Mamma herself, with one at least of the twins, was busy enough in giving the lesser ones their supper, and disposing of them in bed, so that the discreet alone might remain to the later tea-drinking. And 'Sibby' must be made a sharer of the good news in her lower region, though she was sure to disbelieve in Alda and Wilmet's amateur cookery. Sibby was Wilmet's foster-mother. Poor thing! Mr.
Froggatt was one of the party in the garden, and whereas Sibby did not choose to hear or attend to her whims, she came down full of wrath and indignation, as soon as she saw that Cherry was left alone under her tree, and Wilmet coming out to her with the step of one who was glad her day's work was over. 'Really, Sibby's inattention was shameful!
Sibby says that the very day we all came into this poor old house, just as the omnibus stopped, there was the knell ringing overhead, and a funeral coming up the street. She knew it was a token, and burst out crying; and dear Mamma, who you know never shed tears, turned as white as a corpse, as if she was struck to the heart. 'And your father? 'Oh! So you see he did believe in it.
'It is Cherry; she is crying so upstairs, and Clem and I can't get a word out of her. Cherry, though older than the boys, had to precede them in vanishing for the night, as her undressing was a long operation dependent upon Sibby.
'You know Sibby does it every night, and it only aches a little more now. And if they did find it out, then they would have him, and there would be a doctor's bill, and, oh! that would be dreadful!
Sister Constance had better hopes of the babes than Sibby, but this wish of his was one not to be withstood for a moment; and she went to make ready, while Mr. Audley went down for the little Parian font, and Felix and Sibby arranged the pillows and coverings. Mr. Underwood looked very bright and thankful. 'Birthday gifts, he said, 'what are they? You have not told me, Sibby.
"And I have got rid of Porter, she kept me in far too good order." "As if Sibby did not," said Clement. "Aye, and you too! But that comes naturally, and began in babyhood!" "What have you done with the house at Brompton?" "Martha is taking care of it- Mrs. Lightfoot, don't you know?
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