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Merrifield, deprecating the struggle by which her husband would on such occasions enforce discipline, begged to get out; and while this was going on, the ulstered young lady, with a small axe in hand, came, as it were, to the rescue, and, while the donkey was committed to a small boy, explained hastily, 'So overgrown, there is nothing to be done but to let in light and air.
Now, twenty years ago one would not have heard any of this sort of thing. If it sounds a little mad, remember that the Mother Country was throughout considered as a lady in violent hysterics. Just at the end of the talk one of our twelve or thirteen hundred steerage-passengers leaped overboard, ulstered and booted, into a confused and bitter cold sea.
As she stood there, there came a sound of wheels, and a carriage came in sight. It drew up at the gate, and the door opened. "He is come," said the girl softly, as she saw the tall ulstered figure appear from the carriage. There was no answer, and as she went on tiptoe to the fire, she saw that the old lady was asleep.
The sound of wheels summoned Lady Merrifield and her brother from the place of mystery, and they were in the hall when a fresh gust of keen air came in from the door, an ulstered figure hurried in, and something small and furred was put into the lady's embrace. 'Here's my Fly, Lily ! Look, Fly, here they all are all the cousins. Off with the hat. Let us see your funny little face.
However, he had scarcely reached his own gate before the ulstered form was seen rushing up to him. 'Oh! Admiral Merrifield, good-morning; I was coming to ask you 'And I was coming to you. 'Oh! Admiral, is it really so as that impudent man told me that those horrid people can't be got out of those awful tumbledown, unhealthy places for all that immense time? 'Surely he was not impudent to you?
I knew very well how invaluable the judgment of an elder man of experience could be on critical occasions; and besides, I always make a point of seeing everything I can, on all occasions. In ten minutes I was down in the dining-room, where, beside a spluttering fire, the brothers, both heavily booted and ulstered, were drinking coffee by candle-light.
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