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'I forgot to tell you that my father was rather deaf, said Elfride anxiously, when Stephen entered the little drawing-room. 'Never mind; I know all about it, and we are great friends, the man of business replied enthusiastically. 'And, Miss Swancourt, will you kindly sing to me?
Parson Swancourt wasted a good deal of his wife's money, and she left him Miss Elfride. That trick of running away seems to be handed down in families, like craziness or gout. And they two women be alike as peas. 'Which two? 'Lady Elfride and young Miss that's alive now. The same hair and eyes: but Miss Elfride's mother was darker a good deal.
Swancourt's dressing-room, to lighten or at least modify her vexation by a discriminating estimate from her stepmother. She was now looking disconsolately out of the window. 'Never mind, my child, said Mrs. Swancourt after a careful perusal of the matter indicated. 'I don't see that the review is such a terrible one, after all. Besides, everybody has forgotten about it by this time.
It was to walk round upon the parapet of the tower which was quite without battlement or pinnacle, and presented a smooth flat surface about two feet wide, forming a pathway on all the four sides. Without reflecting in the least upon what she was doing she now stepped upon the parapet in the old way, and began walking along. 'We are down, cousin Henry, cried Mrs. Swancourt up the turret.
Smith had been already in the family, you would not have been made wretched by discovering he had poor relations? 'Do you mean in the family by marriage? he replied inattentively, and continuing to peel his egg. The accumulating scarlet told that was her meaning, as much as the affirmative reply. 'I should have put up with it, no doubt, Mr. Swancourt observed.
His heart was throbbing even more excitedly than was hers, which itself had quickened when she seriously set to work on this last occasion. Mr. Swancourt had left the room. 'You have been trifling with me till now! he exclaimed, his face flushing. 'You did not play your best in the first two games? Elfride's guilt showed in her face.
Swancourt certainly thought much of him to entertain such an idea on such slender ground as to be absolutely no ground at all. And then, unaccountably, his speaking face exhibited a cloud of sadness, which a reflection on the remoteness of any such contingency could hardly have sufficed to cause. Elfride was struck with that look of his; even Mr. Swancourt noticed it.
'That IS a thing to say, Miss Swancourt! Why, what 'You don't understand! you don't understand! 'Why, what conceivable use is there in jimcrack jewellery? 'No, no, no, no! she cried petulantly; 'I didn't mean what you think. I like the music best, only I like 'Earrings better own it! he said in a teasing tone.
Knight followed the paper, and secured it. Having done so, he looked to discover if it had been worth securing. The troublesome sheet was a banker's receipt for two hundred pounds, placed to the credit of Miss Swancourt, which the impractical girl had totally forgotten she carried with her.
'Maybe about a year, or a year and half: 'tisn't two years; for they don't scandalize him yet; and, as a rule, a parish begins to scandalize the pa'son at the end of two years among 'em familiar. But he's a very nice party. Ay, Pa'son Swancourt knows me pretty well from often driving over; and I know Pa'son Swancourt.
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