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Updated: June 2, 2025
She went up stairs after dinner with this intention, but there were so many little gifts and keep-sakes in her drawers, to be successively admired and thought over, so many sashes to unfold, and odd gloves to be paired, that the whole afternoon was consumed, and the tea-bell rang before she had quite finished the second drawer, and consequently the duty of that day remained to be finished on the next.
Benny and Charley also came to have their hair arranged, and it devolved on Charlotte and me to do it, as their mamma had thrown herself exhausted on one of the beds, and with the bolsters doubled up under her head, was trying to get some rest. It was fully half-past seven before the tea-bell rang. I seized Benny's hand, and we were the first on the ground.
Well, we will ask those you have mentioned, and I hope they will come. But there is the tea-bell, and I shall carry my dolly out to the dining-room," he said, rising with her in his arms. "Papa," she said, when they had returned to their seats by the study fire, "may I give mammy a nice present this Christmas?"
Elsie had gone directly to her own room, where she sat trembling every time a footstep approached her door, lest it should be a messenger from her grandfather. No one came, however, and at last the tea-bell rang, and on going down she found to her relief that her grandfather and his wife had not yet returned.
"Tank you, little missy," he replied, with a broad grin of satisfaction; "dat be berry good pay, and Pomp am de man to do dis business up for you 'bout right." The tea-bell rang, and Elsie hastened away to answer the summons.
Of course he was not satisfied with the latter, and it was becoming one of his dearest hopes to awaken a personal feeling, though of just what kind he had not yet even defined to himself. When the tea-bell rang, much later than usual on account of the chaos of the day, he was glad to go down. Her society was far pleasanter than his own, and future events might make everything clearer.
The sound of the tea-bell terminated her reverie, and rising, she walked slowly to the dining-room, throwing her head as erect as possible, and compressing her mouth like some gladiator summoned to the fatal arena of the Coliseum.
Agnes now came to Violet's assistance, and when the tea-bell rang, a few minutes later, the two little girls were quite ready to descend with their mamma to the supper-room. Grandma Elsie looked in on her way down, and Violet said, sportively, "See, mamma, I have my dolls dressed."
"I should think it would be damp," suggested Mrs. Green. "She will come in when the tea-bell rings. She wouldn't come in now, if I told her." "Well," said the elder lady, "for a person who lets her doctor pay her board, I think 'she's very independent." "I wish you would n't speak of that, mother," said the girl. "I can't help it, Grace. It's ridiculous, that's what it is; it's ridiculous."
My symptoms have been of a less acute kind, but, I fear, more enduring. There! the tea-bell rings. Too bad! I was just going to say something bright. Now to take your letter and run! How they will stare when I produce it! After tea. Well, we have had a fine time.
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