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'Fanny was delighted with Silverfold. Macrae seems to have been the pink of politeness to her. 'She must come when the house is alive again, said Gillian. 'What would she think of it then! 'Oh, that would be perfectly delicious, cried Valetta. 'She would see Begum and Rigdum 'And I could show her how to work the lawn cutter, added Fergus.
'An hour of London is more than a month of Rockquay, or a year of Silverfold, cried Gillian. 'Dear old Silverfold, said Mysie; 'when shall we go back? 'By the bye, said Harry, 'how about the great things that were to be done for mother? 'Primrose is all right, said Mysie. 'The dear little thing has written a nice copybook, and hemmed a whole set of handkerchiefs for papa.
'Going to rusticate with him, poor little mite? he asked. 'No. I'm to live with my Aunt Lilias Lady Merrifield. 'Where? 'At Silverfold Grange, near Silverfold. 'Well, you'll get among the swells. They'll make you cut all your poor mother's connections. So there's an end of it. She was a good creature she was! 'I'll never forget any one that belongs to her, said Dolores.
The children, who had been there during the special homemaking age, bewailed the decision, and were likely always to look back on Silverfold as a sort of Paradise; but the elder ones had been used to changes from infancy, and had never settled down, and their mother said that place was little to her as long as she had her Jasper by her side, and as to the abstract idea of home as a locality, that would always be to her under the tulip-tree and by the pond at the Old Court at Beechcroft, just as her abstract idea of church was in the old family pew, with the carved oak panels, before the restoration, in which she had been the most eager of all.
The expected telegram arrived two days later, requesting Miss Mohun to find a lodging at Rockstone sufficient to contain Sir Jasper and Lady Merrifield, and a certain amount of sons and daughters, while they considered what was to be done about Silverfold. 'So you and I will go out house-hunting, Gillian? said Aunt Jane, when she had opened it, and the exclamations were over.
You do not mean that you would prefer going to your Aunts Jane and Ada? 'Oh no, no; only if I might go to school. 'This is nonsense, Dolores. It will be much better for you on all accounts to be with your aunt at Silverfold. I have no fear that she and her girls will not do their best to make you happy and good, and to give you what you have sadly wanted, my poor child.
Rigdum Funnidos was in a hutch in the small garden under the cliff, Begum and two small gray kittens were in a basket under the kitchen stairs, Aga was purring under everybody's feet, Cocky was turning out the guard upon his perch -in short, Il Lido was made as like Silverfold as circumstances would permit.
I am going to Silverfold to-morrow, and there are lots of old school-books there of the boys', doing nothing, that I know he might have. 'Oh, Miss Gillian, how good of you! How delighted he would be! 'Do you know what he wants most? 'A Greek grammar and lexicon most of all, was the ready answer.
The Merrifields were somewhat on the world, for Sir Jasper, on going to Silverfold and corresponding with the trustees of the landlord, had found that the place could not be put in a state either of repair or sanitation, such as he approved, without more expense than either he or the trustees thought advisable, and he decided on giving it up, and remaining at Il Lido till he could find something more suitable.
Her affirmative was true enough, and yet she was almost ashamed of it, as not the whole truth, and there was a consciousness about her all the afternoon which made her soon regret that conversation was chiefly absorbed by the younger one's lamentations that they were not to accompany her to Silverfold, and by their commissions.
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