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It was a comfort to remember that Trix's vocation kept her out of the house for the greater part of the day, for it would be distinctly trying to be "bossed" as a permanent thing. Perhaps Trix's thoughts had wandered to the same subject, for her welcome was the reverse of encouraging. "Can't think what you've come back for!" she declared candidly.
Ruth and Mollie were kept busy teaching the babies and making clothes for the family cutting down Trix's dress to do duty for Betty; laboriously planning little pairs of knickers out of trousers worn at the knees; patching, darning, covering-up, hiding over, turning and twisting; making up something out of nothing, with the lordly sum of fifteen pounds a year each for dress and pocket-money alike.
Newhaven was looking up from below with an "enchanted" smile the word is Trix's own; I should probably have used a different one. Was then the curate of Poltons utterly defeated brought to his knees, only to be spurned? It seemed so; and he came down to dinner that night with a subdued and melancholy expression.
If you read some of Trix's other letters, you would see that we have not been altogether ungrateful. Will you read them? I have them all upstairs, and could bring them down in a moment." "You are very good. Judging from the specimen I have heard, I think I would rather decline the honour." "Yes; but you ought not to decline!
From heiresses in reason a gentleman need neither shrink nor let himself be driven; but when it comes to something like twenty thousand a year the reported amount of Trix's dot he distrusts his own motives almost as much as the lady's relatives distrust them for him.
Went worth was distinguished by a stately civility, and her remarks about that lady by a superfluity of laudation; for if these be not two distinguishing marks of rivalry in the well-bred, I must go back to my favorite books and learn from them more folly. And if Trix's manners were all that they should be, praise no less high must be accorded to Mrs.
But Trix's taunts were hard to bear harder than the pain in her knee and in her head. Once she glanced over her shoulder and saw Trix right behind the nearest girl to her in the race. The glance inspired her to put on more steam. She managed to lead the crowd to the foot of the Parade.
From heiresses in reason a gentleman need neither shrink nor let himself be driven; but when it comes to something like twenty thousand a year the reported amount of Trix's dot he distrusts his own motives almost as much as the lady's relatives distrust them for him.
Newhaven was looking up from below with an 'enchanted' smile the word is Trix's own: I should probably have used a different one. Was then the curate of Poltons utterly defeated brought to his knees, only to lie spurned? It seemed so: and he came down to dinner that night with a subdued and melancholy expression.
I am not going to be ordered about by a bit of a chit of seventeen, and apologise to her if I dare to have as much as a cup of tea!" "Hu-ush, dear!" Mrs Connor cast an apprehensive glance towards the half-opened door, through which Trix's voice could be heard superintending the carrying of the luggage. "She is such a child!
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