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"I mean, I should wish in my house to have the children always accustomed to come to the parents' table as soon as they were old enough to handle a knife and fork." "Should you?" said Dr. Grey, quite startling her, for she thought he had not been attending to the conversation. "Then we will have Titia and Atty to breakfast with us to-morrow."
There, walking round and round, in the solitude which at this hour was customary in most colleges, she distinguished, dim as the light was, three figures a man, a woman, and a child; in all probability. Miss Bennett, her lover, and Titia, whom, with a mixture of cunning and shortsightedness, she had induced to play propriety, in case any discovery should be made.
But, if Murdol voted to remain with Valeria, then, Titia was to pay all the cost of the war. "I need hardly say to the Council," the Prime Minister remarked, "that, thus far, the terms are entirely satisfactory to His Majesty; but there is another detail, suggested by our friend, the intermediary, which is not so agreeable.
Just then came a faint, "Ar ee thu sa!" from the direction of the house, and Arethusa rose quickly to answer the call. "Oh, I forgot," Timothy rolled over. "Miss 'Titia called to me from the house as I came by to tell you she was ready for you." "Why didn't you tell me then, an hour ago? You've been here a half hour at least and haven't said a word about it!"
"Arethusa," continued Miss Eliza, "I must say that I think this is going a little bit too far. You have almost made your Aunt 'Titia ill by running off in this storm. You know perfectly well just how they affect her. And I brought you into the house once. You were certainly expected to stay.
"And then dismiss her?" "I fear so." "For having a lover?" said Dr. Grey, with an amused twinkle in his eye. "Not exactly, but for telling Titia about it, and making use of the child for her own selfish needs. Do you consider me hard? Well, it is because I know what this ends in. Miss Gascoigne does not see it, but I do.
"Well, I will not speak about it just yet, and certainly not to Phillis. Lie here till I see if Titia is still in the nursery. It is just five o'clock." Yes, there the little damsel was, sitting as prim as possible over a book, looking the picture of industry and innocence. "Miss Bennett has left for the day, has she not, Titia? You are not going out with her, or going out again at all?"
Perhaps that is why I was quite content for Courtney to win his bet. Truly, a man's heart does not age with his hair. The declaration of war by Titia had come so suddenly that when Courtney and I sailed for Europe, the Powers were still in the air and watching one another. No battle had been fought; but the armies were frowning at each other on the frontier, and several skirmishes had occurred.
So she put on shawl and bonnet, and was just slipping out at the hall door, rather thankful that Barker was absent from his post, when she met Titia creeping stealthily in, not at the front door, but at the glass door, which led to the garden behind; to which garden there was only one other entrance, a little door leading into Walnut-tree Court, and of this door Barker usually kept the key.
"With pleasure," was the answer, as with an altogether perplexed air, and vainly striving to keep up his usual exceeding courtesy of manner, the young man bowed to Mrs. Grey and passed out. "How funny! That's Sir Edwin Uniacke, Titia the gentleman that met me, and " "And that you were always talking about, till Phillis told us we mustn't speak of him any more.
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