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Then Clara and Ethelwyn said they could do the work all right if they weren't interfered with, and that meant that the children no longer got the tea and cleared it away and washed up the tea-things and dusted the rooms. This would have left quite a blank in their lives, although they had often pretended to themselves and to each other that they hated housework.
The tea-things were on the table, and Nancy 's cup half emptied. Wylie came in, and said, "Why, what is the matter now?" He said this mighty cheerfully, as one who carried the panacea for all ills in his pocket, and a medicine peculiarly suited to Nancy Rouse's constitution. But he had not quite fathomed her yet.
From this coign of vantage he returned after a time to take away the tea-things; and thereafter, though it was now dark as well as foggy, I could hear him softly flitting up and down the stairs with a gloomy stealthiness that at length reduced me to a condition as nervously apprehensive as his own.
When she returned with her bowl of rich milk, Valmai was busy, with skirt and sleeves tucked up, tidying and arranging the little room; the hearth had been swept and the tea-things laid on the quaint little round table, whose black shining surface and curved legs would have delighted the heart of a collector of antique furniture.
Besides, people are not so immovable as you think. How they alter I don't know; but they do alter. There is a much larger minority in favour of Free Trade than there was ten years ago." "All past now, is it? You will see one of these days." It was time for tea, and Pauline left to get the tea-things.
On the head of this auld Glen and I had another jug, three being cannie, after which we were both a wee tozymozy. Mistress Grassie saw plainly that we were getting into a state where we could not easily make a halt, and brought in the tea-things and told us that a company of strolling players had come to the town and were to give an exhibition in Laird Wheatley's barn.
The fire leapt and chattered in the grate; the newly-washed tea-things on the table shone under the lamp; the cat lay curled, as usual, on the chair where he sat after supper to read his Christian World; yet all things were not the same. What had changed? Then, across poor John's rifled box, he saw his wife sitting rigid on the chair where he had left her.
'I'll warrant! she sneered; and before Dick could find more to say, she was gone from the room. Esther returned with the tea-things, and sat down. 'Now, she said cosily, 'tell me all about my father. 'He' stammered Dick, 'he is a very agreeable companion. 'I shall begin to think it is more than you are, Mr. Naseby, she said, with a laugh. 'I am his daughter, you forget.
He felt that he had done very well indeed when, having cleared the tea-things away, Nancy came and sat beside him with her hand in his. Her brother grunted, but Mr. Evans, in whom a vein of sentiment still lingered, watched them with much satisfaction. Mr.
"I'll warrant!" she sneered; and before Dick could find more to say, she was gone from the room. Esther returned with the tea-things, and sat down. "Now," she said cosily, "tell me all about my father." "He" stammered Dick, "he is a very agreeable companion." "I shall begin to think it is more than you are, Mr. Naseby," she said, with a laugh. "I am his daughter, you forget.
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