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I remember being tied up there for forty-eight hours once." "I don't think she says, so I fancy it must have been all right. The voyage is bound to do her good. I've asked the Simpsons to watch particularly for any sign of malaria later, though. One can't possibly know what she may have imported from that slum in Bentinck street." "And what was it like after Gibraltar?"
Simpson met me as expected and welcomed me very affably. She has got hold of a wrong impression there, I fancy; the Simpsons couldn't be 'affable. 'They seem very kind and pleasant for such stylish people, and their house is lovely, with electric light in the parlour and hot and cold water throughout.
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She read them with a beating heart in the unconscious apprehension of some revelation of improvement. She was quite unaware of it, but she entertained toward the Simpsons an attitude of misgiving in this regard. Hilda went on about her business. As usual, her business was important and imperative; nothing was lightened for her this last day.
It must stay in the fam'ly, and you must 'ave it on yer wedding linen, that you must." Grannie had taken great pains teaching Alison, and Alison had tried hard to learn, but, unlike the Phippses and the Simpsons, she had no real turn for fine needlework. She learned the wonderful stitch, it is true, but only in a sort of fashion. Now, the secret of that stitch it is not for me to disclose.
"It was a heavenly party," reiterated Rebecca, coming in again, much too excited to be easily crushed, "and oh! aunt Jane, aunt Miranda, if you'll only come into the kitchen and look out of the sink window, you can see the banquet lamp shining all red, just as if the Simpsons' house was on fire." "And probably it will be before long," observed Miranda.
They added many books and games of their own, which, though not quite new, were as good as new. A barrel was packed full of clothing, mostly outgrown by the Maynard children, but containing, also, new warm caps, wraps and underwear for the little Simpsons. Well, all the things together made a fair wagon-load, and when Mr.
Laura's room was a temple, for which the gardener daily gave up his choicest blooms, the tenderest interest watched upon her comings and goings, and it was the joy of both the Simpsons to make little sacrifices for her, to desert their beloved vicar on a Sunday evening, for instance, and accompany her to the firemen's halls and skating rinks lent to the publishing of the Word in the only manner from which their guest seemed to derive benefit.
She took no tint, no curve. She appeared not to see that these precious things were to be had for the assimilation. Her grace remained exclusively that of holiness and continued to fail to have any relation to the common little things she did and said. The Simpsons were more plastic. Laura had been with them hardly a week before Mrs.
The day before Christmas the children were all allowed to stay home from school, for in the morning they were to pack the Christmas box for the Simpsons and, in the afternoon, take it to them. The day before Christmas was a busy one in the Maynard household. The delightful breakfast that Ellen sent to the table could scarcely be eaten, so busily talking were all the members of the family.
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