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The last three, which Agatha liked, helped to make the contrast between Alton and London tolerable to her, but they had their drawbacks, for good partners at the dances, and good performances at the spiritless opera and concerts, were disappointingly scarce. Flirting she could not endure; she drove men away when they became tender, seeing in them the falsehood of Smilash without his wit.
"I will keep your wife here," she said to the man. "Every care shall be taken of her. The children can stay too." "Three cheers for moral science!" cried Smilash, ecstatically breaking into the outrageous dialect he had forgotten in his wrath.
"I have told you that these young ladies are not my daughters," said Miss Wilson sharply. "Why do you not listen to what is said to you?" "Don't be too hard on a common man, lady," said Smilash submissively. "The young lady have just given me three 'arf-crowns." "Three half-crowns!" exclaimed Miss Wilson, angered at such extravagance.
As it is your principle to allow us to exercise our own judgment, we intend to cultivate the acquaintance of Smilash. How will you act in that case?" "Send them home to their parents at once." "I see that your principles are those of the Church of England. You allow the students the right of private judgment on condition that they arrive at the same conclusions as you.
The time passed quickly; when Miss Ward sent for him to take off her skates there was a general groan and declaration that it could not possibly be half-past eight o'clock yet. Smilash knelt before the camp-stool, and was presently busy unbuckling and unscrewing. When Jane's turn came, the camp-stool creaked beneath her weight.
But why did you not go round to the servants' hall?" "I am at present in search of it, lady. "A cruel blow on the hi' nat'rally spires its vision and expression and makes a honest man look like a thief." "Agatha," said Miss Wilson, "come here." "My dooty to you, Miss," said Smilash, pulling his forelock. "This is the man from whom I had the five shillings, which he said you had just given him.
Still, you could surely do yourself more justice without any great effort. If you wish to live humbly, you can do so without pretending to be an uneducated man and without taking an irritating and absurd name. Why on earth do you call yourself Smilash?" "I confess that the name has been a failure. I took great pains, in constructing it, to secure a pleasant impression.
Her resolution to study hard during another term at the college had been formed, not for the sake of becoming learned, but that she might become more worthy of Smilash; and when she learned the truth about him from his own lips, the idea of returning to the scene of that humiliation became intolerable to her.
But it was a point of honor with her to appear perfectly indifferent to her trouble, so she stayed with the girls, laughing and chatting as they watched Smilash intently marking out the courts and setting up the nets.
Smilash, making off through the shrubbery, found the end of his path blocked by Agatha and a young lady whose appearance alarmed him more than had that of Mrs. Jansenius. He attempted to force his tray through the hedge, but in vain; the laurel was impenetrable, and the noise he made attracted the attention of the approaching couple.
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