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Updated: May 15, 2025
It was six o'clock by the time the girls reached Vincent Street, and they seated themselves on uncomfortable arm-chairs in front of the smoky fire, which they lit as soon as they got in. Vava had her lessons to do; but after their tea-supper, for which the landlady declined to cook anything but eggs 'London eggs, as Vava said Stella looked round for something to do.
And when he sat at his own table, in his own dining-room, and watched the calm incurious Maggie dispensing to him his elaborate tea-supper with slightly more fuss and more devotion than usual, his thoughts, had they been somewhat less vague, might have been summed up thus: "The right sort of women don't get landed as the wives of convicts.
The unshaded lamp on the table cast a hard, strong light on the appointments of the room, and in its glare the family namely, the man, with his wife, his mother, and his sister were sitting round the fire. On the table, which had no cloth, the remains of his hot tea-supper were not cleared away the crust of a loaf, a piece of bacon-rind on a plate, and a teacup showed what it had been.
It could not be denied that I was extremely tired as I walked down the dark road; but in spite of fatigue my heart felt lighter than it had done since Charlie's death, and the warm glow from the window of my little parlour seemed to welcome me, it looked so snug and bright. My low chair was drawn to the fire, a sort of tea-supper was awaiting me, and Mrs.
Agnes and Rose noticed the change at once, whispered to each other when they found an opportunity, and foreboded ill. After their tea-supper, Catherine, unperceived, slipped out of the little lane gate, and climbed the stony path above the house leading on to the fell. The rain had ceased, but the clouds hung low and threatening, and the close air was saturated with moisture.
And it was the inner man who now spoke "Our tea-supper nearly ready, Mrs Champernowne?" "Oh yes, sir. The second rasher's about done. How many eggs shall I cook?" "Oh, one, or perhaps two, for me," shouted Uncle Paul. "Oh, I say!" muttered Rodd. "Better cook eight or ten for my nephew," cried the doctor dryly. "He'll eat like a young wolf." "What a shame!" muttered Rodd.
Even the little jargon story-book which Moses Ansell read out that night to his Kinder, after tea-supper, by the light of the one candle, was prefaced with a note of pathos.
Nothing further of any note occurred during the afternoon to mar the harmony or vary the monotony of our `bag and hammock drill, at which we were religiously kept up to the time to leave off work; when we enjoyed again our tea-supper, and skylarked afterwards till it was time to `turn in, which we managed to do now more comfortably as well as expeditiously than on the night before; while, I may add, my dreams happily were not disturbed by any storms and thunder-claps of that imp Larrikins' contrivance.
My only quiet time was the afternoon, when about four o'clock, my amateur servants all went out for a ride, and left me in peace for a couple of hours. I had enough to do during that short time to tidy up; to collect the scattered books and music, and prepare the tea-supper, for which they came back in tearing spirits, and frantically hungry, between seven and eight o'clock.
Agnes and Rose noticed the change at once, whispered to each other when they found an opportunity, and foreboded ill. After their tea-supper, Catherine, unperceived, slipped out of the little lane gate, and climbed the stony path above the house leading on to the fell. The rain had ceased but the clouds hung low and threatening, and the close air was saturated with moisture.
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