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'And, Gill, added Val, 'I'm in second class too, and I took three places for knowing where Teheran was, and got above Kitty Varley and a girl there two years older than I am, and her name is Maura. 'Maura, how very odd! I never heard of any one called Maura but one of the Whites, said Gillian. 'What was her surname? This Valetta could not tell, and at the moment Mrs.
This aphorism, so uttered by Thekla, provoked a yell from Primrose, echoed by Fergus; and Primrose, getting her breath, declared that dear Miss Winter was a great darling, and since she had gone away, more's the pity, mamma was real governess to herself, Valetta, and Mysie, and she always looked at their translations and heard their reading if Gillian was not at home.
At half-past ten next morning, however, Lord Rotherwood burst in to borrow Valetta for a donkey-ride, for which his lady had compounded instead of the paddling and castle-building, and certainly poor Val could not do much to corrupt Fly on donkey back, and in his presence.
I will proceed. This letter was postmarked Malta, here at Valetta." "But you did not mention " "I knew the steamer would stop a few hours at least, and thought that might be enough in which to learn the truth. Strange things have happened since we landed. I have learned several facts which astound me. "You saw a man come in and draw me aside?
'It was only chaff, said Valetta, the boldest in right of her girlhood. 'Very improper chaff! I am the last person to object to harmless merriment; but you are both old enough to know that on these subjects such merriment is not harmless. 'Everybody does it, whined Valetta, beginning one of her crying fits. 'I am sorry you have been among people who have led you to think so.
Valetta thought it hard that an outsider should be chosen. The young Merrifields had the failing of large families in clannish exclusiveness up to the point of hating and despising more or less all who interfered with their enjoyment of one another, and of their own ways.
It was only horrid, Valetta said, that Mysie should sleep in a different house; but almost as much of her company was vouchsafed on the ensuing day, Sunday, for Miss Elbury had relations at Rockquay, and was released for the entire day; and Fly was still so tired in the morning that she was not allowed to get up early in the day.
'There stands Dolly, like a statue of Diana, dart in hand, exclaimed Aunt Adeline. 'Yes, said Dolores; 'I wish to know, Aunt Lilias, if Wilfred and Valetta are to call me names, and shoot arrows at me? 'What do you mean, my dear? 'They came at me while I was sitting quietly reading there and shot at me, and called me such horrid names I can't repeat them, and ran away.
Mysie and Valetta were grievously exercised about their chances of returning to the G.F.S. Tree. Indeed Gillian went the length of telling them that Fly was behaving far better in her disappointment as to the Butterfly's Ball than they were as to this 'old second-hand tree. Fly laughed and observed, 'Dear me, things one would like are always being stopped.
'It was horrid to be fetched home so soon, just as there was a chance of something nice; when all the tiresome big ones had gone to dress, and we could have had some real fun, said Valetta. 'Real fun! Real sense! said Fergus. 'But what had you been about all this time?
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