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Updated: May 18, 2025
Young things are always inclined to go to extremes; and she has been so good! I don't know what I should have done without her! We must not let her feel slighted because you have returned!" That was true enough; Trix had borne the heat and burden of the day, while her stepsisters were amusing themselves, in blissful ignorance of the gathering troubles.
She was beautiful and found pleasure in the contemplation of herself, and though she did not discuss her appearance as her stepsisters discussed theirs, she spent a good deal of time on it and much money on her plain but perfect clothes.
Caroline sniffed and hoped the woman was respectable; Sophia was charitably certain she would be a charming girl; and Rose, knowing she questioned one of the life occupations of her stepsisters, said coolly, 'Why speculate? We shall see her soon. We must go and call.
She was aware that he had married her mother when she was a very poor and sorrowful young widow, that she had had two stepsisters and a brother very close together, and then that the pretty mother had died. There was evidently something so sad connected with the whole story that Priscilla never cared much to talk about it.
From the white panelled hall, the staircase with its white banisters and smooth mahogany rail led to a square landing which branched off narrowly on two sides, and opening from the square were the bedroom occupied by Rose, the one shared by her stepsisters and the one which had been Reginald's.
"But the point is," insisted Miss Bunce, "that a lady never forgets herself." "And you would argue that the being liable to forget myself is only another development of that very character by virtue of which I follow Art. Ah, well" she nodded towards her stepsisters "I ask you why they and I should be daughters of one father?" She rose and stepped to the piano in the corner.
She knew it was her winter time and she must bear it until the spring should come, though it was none the less hard to support. But she got through the hours with perfect surface calm and her stepsisters thought her stupid and dull, while Mrs.
As she rode under the flowering trees to the stable where she kept her horse, she wondered whether she should tell her stepsisters of Francis Sales's proposal, but she knew she would not do so. She seldom told them anything they did not know already.
For Nora did not look like a person who would bear roughness or rudeness from any one. "Then are you my cousin, too?" he asked, suddenly struck by an idea that sent a gleam of pleasure to his eye. "Oh, no," said Nora, demurely. "I'm no relation. It is only Janetta her mother was Mr. Brand's father's cousin. But that was not my mother Janetta and I are stepsisters."
She was thinking of her childhood when, like a happier Cinderella, she had seen her stepsisters, in satins and laces, with pendant fans and glittering jewels, excited, rustling, with little words of commendation for each other, setting out for the evening parties of which they never tired. They had always kissed her before they went, looking, she used to think, as beautiful as princesses.
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