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Updated: June 2, 2025
It was on my lip to inquire if any one had called since I went out, but the ringing of the tea-bell sent my thought in a new direction; when, with my second self leaning on an arm, and my little Aggy holding tightly by my hand, I moved on to the dining-room, all the disagreeable things of the day forgotten. "Has any one been here?" I asked, as I handed my cup for a third replenishing.
He caught her in his arms and kissed her several times with passionate fondness. Then sitting down with her on his knee, he asked tenderly, "What does my darling want with papa to-night?" "I wanted to tell you that I was very naughty this afternoon, and didn't get home until just as the tea-bell rang."
She walked slowly, and, seating herself beside Beulah, said, in a gentle but weary tone: "How do you like your room? I am so glad it opens into mine." "Quite as well as I expected. The view from this window must be very fine. There is the tea-bell, I suppose. Are you not going down? I am too much fatigued to move." "No; I never want supper, and generally spend the evenings in my room.
A few minutes of fussy preparations and the gloomy twain were immersed in dry business. Apart from the monotonous scratching of their hurried pens there was but an occassional short remark uttered until the welcome sound of the tea-bell broke the spell of sullenness that had fallen on both.
Lincoln to decide, which she soon did by reseating herself and saying, laughingly, "I don't know but I'll stay for a taste of those delicious looking strawberries I saw your servant carry past the window." Erelong the little tea-bell rang, and Mrs.
So, with a pressure on her heart, and a clear perception in her mind that he was wrong, she heard these last words in silence. "Shall I call Andrew down?" asked the mother, as the tea-bell rung, soon after. "No," replied Mr. Howland, firmly; "I wish him to understand that I am in earnest." "Don't you think he has been punished sufficiently?" said Mrs. Howland, timidly.
The tea-bell rang just in time to avert a fresh flood of tears from Lilly. She brushed her hair in angry haste, and they all hurried down by a side staircase which, as Rose explained, the school-girls were expected to use. The dining-room was not large; only part of the girls could be seated at a time; so they took turns at dining at the first table, half one week and half the next. Mrs.
"Of what sort?" "You will see. But there is the tea-bell; let us go in." Irene looked wonderfully thoughtful, for her. She walked slowly by Rosamund's side into the house. Still slowly, and with that thoughtful expression on her face; she passed along the hall until she reached the pretty parlor where tea was always served.
I shall not do so unless I see that they do affect your spirits," he answered in a reassuring tone, and she thanked him with her own bright, sweet smile. She was silent for a moment, then asked suddenly, "Papa, may I say some verses to you?" "Some time," he said, "but not now, for there is the tea-bell;" and taking her hand, he led her down to the dining-room.
She was a good deal relieved when the tea-bell rang, and Lucy's two brothers, Fred and Harry, with her tall cousin Alick Steele, joined them as they obeyed the summons to the cool, pleasant dining-room, where Alick's mother, Mr. Raymond's sister, who had superintended his family since Mrs. Raymond's death, was already seated at the tea-table.
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