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'And do you never say a good word in favour of your relations? 'I hope so, when they deserve it, said Rowland resolutely, glancing at his sister, who was biting her glove. 'If I may be allowed an opinion, said Mrs Jonathan decidedly, also glancing at poor Netta, 'I should say that Howel Jenkins was a complete scapegrace. What he may yet turn out remains to be proved.
Tessa removed the cigarette to poke her tongue out at him, and continued her war-dance just out of reach. It was Netta to the life. Monck glanced at the watch on his wrist. "I give you one minute," he said, and returned to his work." "Why don't you chase me?" gibed Tessa. He said nothing further, but to Stella his silence was ominous. She watched him with anxious eyes.
He walked down the passage, and heard the door opened behind him. 'Owen, come here, I will let you in, 'There's a good little sister. 'Don't palaver me, sir, burst forth Netta, as soon as her door was closed. 'You are all unfeeling, unnatural, cruel, selfish, hard-hearted heathens! You don't care for me or Howel any more than as if we were strangers.
Netta glanced, as she spoke, at an unusually superb diamond ring, of Eastern manufacture, which adorned her own delicate hand. It was her father's last gift to her a few days before he died. "What are you thinking of, darling?" inquired Mrs Tipps. "Of many things," replied Netta slowly. "It is not easy to tell you exactly what "
'He has the horridest eyes I ever saw in a man's head, said Netta; 'and I tell you what, he's terribly greedy; did you see the current pie he ate yesterday? When Mr Slope got home he soon learnt from the bishop, as much from his manner as his words, that Mrs Proudie's behests in the matter of the hospital were to be obeyed.
The sordid years in Florence, the death of Netta's mother, the bankruptcy of her father, the bitter struggle amid the Apuan Alps to keep themselves and their wretched invalid alive she described them, as they had been told to her, not rhetorically, for neither she nor Netta Melrose was capable of rhetoric, but with the touches and plain details that bring conviction.
However, I wrote out the absurd lines for the girl without comment, and rescued Henry's volume of Byron, which I felt would not improve in appearance by contact with the meat chopper, knife-board and other miscellaneous objects which she keeps in the kitchen drawer. It is a pity Netta does not exercise stricter supervision over Elizabeth. The girl seems to do what she likes.
'What you think of my Howels and your Netta at Abertewey: And you to be all toalking as if we wos ail dirt. And they in France, over the sea, where I 'ould be going with them only I am so 'fraid of the water. 'There's a loss it would be, Aunt 'Lizbeth, if anything had happened to you! Suppose a shark had swallowed you up! gold watch, mourning ring, silk gown, brooch, and all?
How would you look in lace and pearls, and all the goodly array of a fine lady? 'I don't know, Howel; but tell me what you wanted me for. 'Just let me twist this bunch of roses into your hair first, to see how an evening toilette would become my pretty cousin Netta. Howel had torn a spray from the rose-bush at their back, and he inserted it carelessly amongst the curls.
Phillips is eccentric; but he interests me all the more on that account, and I am sure he and you would have many ideas and sentiments in common." "How can you say so, Ellen?" said Netta. "I think they are totally different." "You must consider Netta's remark complimentary, Miss Flint," said Ellen; "it would not be quite so much so if it had come from me."
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