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That will make a break, and Wilmet can take advantage of it if she sees fit. 'Alda is worse than ten children, said Clement; 'she has an inordinate appetite for captains in the absence of her own. 'It can't be helped. Better do too little than too much.
'Is there a letter? inquired Wilmet. Yes, more's the pity! said Felix. 'Now I shall have to answer it. 'I'll do that, if you'll give me what's inside, said Edgar. 'Is it there? exclaimed Cherry, in a tone of doubt, that sent an electric thrill of dismay through the audience; Lance nearly toppling over, to the horror of the adjacent sisters, and the grave rebuke of Clement.
Nor, since the half-crown must be disbursed on an escort for her, did the housewifely conscience object to the expedition, for Wilmet could not but long to thank the Superior and Sister Constance, and to obtain Dr. Lee's advice as to future management.
Why, Ferdinand actually found fault to-day with my manner to her! Save for the effects, Wilmet was glad to hear it. 'Well, Alda, it is not always kind. 'I only don't fuss and coax her; I see through her better than you do. She is the sharp one. As I told Ferdinand, it is I who have reason to complain of his manner to her, only I know it is not his fault.
'True kindness means something horridly cross! Now don't, Wilmet. I get ever so much kindness as it is! I know what you are going to say. It is very naughty of people to like each other when neither of them has got a sixpence; but if they can't help it, what then? Must they leave off liking, eh? 'They ought to try to prevent their liking from leading to disobedience and concealment.
Just then a step crossed the court, and a low voice said, 'Is he awake? I have brought some more ice. 'O Jack, thank you! faintly breathed Lance. 'Thank you! fervently added Wilmet; 'we did not know what to do for some more! 'I thought you must want some by this time. I have a little ice- machine for Indian use, he added, as Clement looked at him like a sort of wizard.
'They have been so kind as not to ring the bells, said Wilmet. 'Not ring the bells! repeated Lance, in a feeble voice of amazement. 'No, nor play the organ, said Wilmet; 'you have had to be so quiet, you know.
Alice gave a little scream of surprise, Angela crept behind her sisters, and Wilmet stood for a moment like a stag at gaze; then, as he said, 'Well, Mettie, are you going to send for the police? exclaimed, 'You, Edgar! What a figure you have made of yourself! 'See how our eldest crushes me! said Edgar. 'Such a face as yours, Mettie, ought not to be wedded to the commonplace.
Since Edgar had left her, she had never been on those equal terms with any one; Wilmet was more like mother or aunt than sister; and though Felix had a certain air of confidence and ease when with her, and made her his chief playfellow, he could not meet all her tastes or all her needs; and there was a sort of craving within her for intimacy with a creature of her own species.
'Then tell me how it can be, said Fernando. Felix stood startled and perplexed, feeling the awful magnitude and importance of the question, but also feeling his own incompetence to deal with it; and likewise that Wilmet was keeping the tea waiting for him. He much wished to say, 'Keep it for Mr.
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