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At last she spoke, and it was very different from what Violet expected, 'Violet, I will try to endure it; but if I cannot if you hear of me as doing what you will disapprove, will you refrain from giving me up, and at least be sorry for me? After what Lord Martindale had said, Violet could guess at her meaning. 'Certainly, dear Theodora. You would not do it if it was wrong?
No guest shone so brilliantly as he. His wit was delicate, his sallies were daring, his looks were insinuating, and his appearance was perfection. Theodora had every reason to tingle with pride in him, and the widow felt her heart beat. "Isn't he just too bright your father, Mrs. Brown?" she said as they left the restaurant to have their coffee in the hall.
No-o, she wasn't perfectly awful yes, she was pretty bad," Theodora admitted. "Wasn't she, Babbie?" "Oh, well" Barbara hesitated "she's of course she's terribly common. Just the second-rate actress type, don't you know?" "Did she call your Mother 'ma'am'?" giggled Enid Hazzard. "Do you remember when she said 'Yes, ma'am? And did she say 'eyether, and 'between you and I' again?"
"No, she died when David was a youngster consumption, I believe and two or three of the children died too. But there is one daughter, Theo they call her for Theodora, I expect and a precious uncomfortable piece of goods she is." Malcolm raised his eyebrows in a questioning manner, but Cedric needed no encouragement to rattle on.
He hasn't many friends left, and he needs all those he has, needs to trust them and feel they trust him and care a great deal for him, whatever he says or does. If you want to, you can help me in this." There was a short silence. Then Theodora went on, "Every girl has the making of at least one boy, if she manages him in the right way.
They will make a handsome pair, won't they he and Miss Winmarleigh?" "Very," said Theodora, listlessly, with an air of dragging her thoughts from the music with difficulty, while she suddenly felt sick and cold. "And are they to be married soon?" "I don't know exactly; but it has been going on for years, and we all look upon it as a settled thing. She is always about with his mother."
Violet coloured crimson, and wished herself under the table; Theodora made violent efforts to keep from an explosion of laughing. 'No, said Violet, rather indignantly; 'he is he is he is she faltered, not knowing how to describe one so nearly a relation, 'a great friend of
She has a standard of her own, and she will not acknowledge a duty if she does not intend to practise it. 'I don't understand, said Violet. 'I thought if one saw a duty one must try to practise it. 'I wish all the world went upon your principles' said Miss Gardner, with a sigh. 'I am afraid you will find many not half so consistent with their own views as yourself, or Theodora.
The tag end of grey fur stirred itself; there was a little growl, a little bark, and a little grey dog squirmed out of his nest and went waddling away across the rug. "Mercy on us! What's that?" Theodora gasped, as the little creature shook himself with a vehemence which fairly hoisted him off his hind legs, then flew at the nearest claw of the tiger skin and fell to worrying it. "That?"
'Don't I look like an insane gipsy? said she, looking up, and tossing back the locks that hung over her face. 'Can I do anything to help you? 'Thank you; sit down, and I'll put all this black stuff out of the way, said Theodora, grasping her hair with the action of the Tragic Muse. 'I'll put it up in every-day fashion.
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