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Miss Main and her young stepsister are born teachers, full of humour and understanding, as well as being brilliantly clever far too clever really for this job; but if they don't mind we needn't complain. They get the children on most surprisingly, and teach them all sorts of things outside their lessons.
Down on Fern Avenue, which is a wide, grassy road and no avenue at all, Uncle Roger Allan is carefully painting his chicken coops. Roger Allan is a tall, twinkling, smooth-shaven old man, and he lives in a house as twinkling and as tidy as himself. He is a bachelor, but years ago he took little David from the dead arms of an unhappy, wild young stepsister and has brought him up as his own.
I could see that, even to Phil, the thought of a cruise taken in the company of our new friend and that ideal chaperon, his aunt, Lady MacNairne, had attractions which the idea of a cruise alone with her stepsister had lacked. "Well, in the circumstances, I think we should be callous brutes not to say 'Yes," I replied. "I don't want to force you into consenting from pure generosity," went on Mr.
The Duke died less than a year after his daughter's birth, so there were no small brothers or sisters to share the Princess's childhood; but her stepsister, Princess Feodore, her mother's child, was much attached to her, and might often be seen walking or driving with her in the Gardens.
One day, therefore, she said to her own daughter, "It is hard that your stepsister should have become Ranee of all the land instead of being eaten up by the great fish, while we gained no more than a lac of gold mohurs. Do now as I bid you, that you may become Ranee in her stead."
But the sister who stayed at home was treated worse than badly; both her stepmother and stepsister were always at her, and wherever she went, and whatever she did, they scolded and snarled so, the poor lassie hadn't an hour's peace. All the hard work she was forced to do, and early and late she got nothing but bad words, and little food besides.
She bit her lip, and what she would have answered or done if left to herself I shall never know, for Miss Rivers slipped one arm coaxingly within the arm of her stepsister, and said, with a laugh, to make it seem that all three were jesting "Why, of course she won't refuse. None of us would forgive her for spoiling our pleasure. Come along, Nell."
Once I was sure of her, I'd have confessed everything, for I could have made her understand how it was all done for her sake for love of her." "And her stepsister," said Alb, bitterly, as he did to the wheel what perhaps he would have liked to do to my throat. "That was a mere boyish fancy," said I. "I love Nell Van Buren with a man's love.
"I should like you to meet her." "Is Lady MacNairne in Rotterdam?" asked Phil. "Not exactly; but she's coming almost at once." "We don't know your name yet," said Phyllis. "I'm Miss Rivers; my stepsister is Miss Van Buren. Perhaps you'd better introduce yourself." "I shall be glad to," returned my countryman. "My name is Ronald Lester Starr "
Who in Friendship had not heard the name, and who, save one who keeps her own thoughts and forgets to give back greeting, would not on the instant have remembered it? Delia More's stepsister, Jennie Crapwell, had been betrothed to a carpenter of Friendship, and he was at work on their house when, a month before the wedding-day, Delia and that young carpenter had "run away."
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