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Updated: May 18, 2025
Walter Gray was pleased enough to go back to his little girl whom he had left in tears for the comfortless house and the burden of the young stepbrothers and stepsisters. It was pleasure, half pain, to see the uplifted face with which Mary regarded him when she saw him return. How was he going to put the barrier between them that this plan to which he had given his consent would surely mean?
Aunt Rose was meeting a lover clandestinely in the woods while Aunt Caroline and Aunt Sophia sat innocently at home, marvelling at Rose's indifference to men, yet rejoicing in her spinsterhood; and Henrietta felt that Rose had wronged her stepsisters almost as much as she had wronged her niece.
She pitied them because their romance was past, while hers waited for her outside; she wondered at their happiness, their interest in their appearance, their pleasure in parties; but she felt most sorry for Aunt Rose, midway between what should have been the resignation of her stepsisters and the glowing anticipation of her niece.
You needn't be afraid, but she'll hear of them sooner or later from anybody who remembers Caroline Mallett in her youth. Rose had received this confession gravely, but she had not needed the reassurance of Sophia; 'It isn't so, dear Rose a flirt, yes, but never wicked, never! My dear, of course not! 'Of course not, Rose repeated. She had already realized that her stepsisters must be humoured.
"Yes; who is this?" "This is Cinderella." "Who!" "Cinderella. My two stepsisters have gone to a ball, and my cruel stepmother has beaten me and starved me " "What are you talking about? Who is this, please?" "Me. I'm Cinderella. And I'm so lonely and sad I thought perhaps you'd come over to see me." A light began to dawn on Marjorie. "Oh," she continued, "where do you live?"
'If you know one man you know them all. 'But if you know a great many, you will know one all the better. However, she smiled in the way of which her stepsisters were afraid, 'I wasn't thinking of men. 'That's where you're so unnatural. 'I was thinking of places cities and mountains and plains. 'You'll get the plague or be run away with by brigands.
Sitting between her stepsisters, she was soon chattering with them as though they were old friends. Once she called the new Mrs. Lincoln "Mamma," just as her own daughters did. Dennis sat on the other side of Betsy. He seemed to be enjoying himself most of all. He sopped up his last drop of golden honey on his last piece of cornbread.
And besides that she has only Burgoyne's insurance, twenty or twenty-five thousand, for those years of illness pretty well used up his own money. I believe the stepsisters were very anxious to make her a more generous arrangement, but she seems to have declined it. Alice says they are quite devoted " "Alice don't count!" said the old lady "that's his wife. That's enough."
It was her pride to consider herself a hard young person, without spirituality, without sentiment, yet all her personal relationships were to be of the fantastic kind she now experienced, all her obligations such as others would have ignored. 'We shall know more when John Gibbs brings the afternoon milk, Caroline said. Rose went upstairs and left her stepsisters to their repetitions.
Far from turning me out of the way, it would have made me turn more wholly to Thee. I looked with jealous eyes on my brother, seeing the difference between him and me. Whatever he did was considered well; but if there were blame, it fell on me. My stepsisters by the mother, gained her goodwill by caressing him and persecuting me. True, I was bad.
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