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She was still there when he woke, close at his side and ready to greet him with an affectionate look and smile, though the latter was touchingly sad and there were traces of tears on her cheeks. "How long have I slept?" he asked. "Two hours," she answered, holding up her watch, "and there is the tea-bell." What thou bidst, Unargued I obey; so God ordained.
They came back when the tea-bell rang, at least Kittie did, slowly and solemnly through the back yard, and lingered several minutes on the porch, with many mysterious signals to some one, down where the long yard sloped to the pond, and a fringe of willows shaded the water. "Where's Kathy," inquired Ernestine, who strongly objected to the extremely abbreviated form of 'Kat.
You know I could never get them straight. But there's the tea-bell, so come in with us. No need to go home till bed-time, or till to-morrow, that I can see." "Thank you, but of course, auntie, I want to primp a bit, just as you did in your young days, when the beaux were coming.
Altogether the atmosphere around him seemed charged with discomfort and annoyance, and even the merry tinkle of the tea-bell was not so welcome as usual. "Where's Raymond?" asked Queen Mab. "I think he's putting his things in his bag," answered Valentine. "Shall I go and call him?" At that moment the subject of their conversation entered the room.
Then she could hear all the noises, accentuated beyond custom, of Louisa setting tea in the dining-room for the Watchetts, and then the tea-bell rang. Despite her fury, apparent in the noises, Louisa had not found courage to neglect the sacred boarders. She made a defiant fuss, but she had to yield, intimidated, to the force of habit and tradition.
Before she could make any further arrangements the tea-bell rang, but when I lay down that night in my strange cold bed, hemmed round by other beds, which were only less formidable than if they had been occupied, I did not feel so friendless as I might have done, and dreamed all night that Marjory was teaching me something I understood to be cricket, which, however, was more like a bloated kind of backgammon.
When they had returned from church Miss Allison gathered all the little ones in the nursery and showed them pictures, and told them Bible stories, until the tea-bell rang; after which the whole family, including children and servants, were called together into the sitting-room to be catechized by Mr.
When the tea-bell rang, she reluctantly yielded to Chloe's persuasions, and went down. But it was a sad, uncomfortable meal to her, for she soon perceived, from the cold and averted looks of the whole family, that the cause of her banishment from her papa's room was known.
Elsie hurried along with nervous haste, and the others had to exert themselves to keep up with her, but just as they reached the door the tea-bell rang. The children exchanged glances of fright and mortification. "What shall we do?" whispered Elsie. "Dear! if we were only dressed!" said Sophy. "Let's go in just as we are; maybe no one will notice."
To tell the truth, she thought it a good opportunity to see how things were going on in the schoolroom in her sister's absence. Just then a bell sounded. 'That is the tea-bell, said Archie. 'Come along. The first in the schoolroom to sit beside auntie. Off they set, all except little Gervais, but they had not gone many paces before Pat turned back again.
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