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Jack is such a fellow; and Wilmet -somehow, Clem, I never seem to have cared enough about W. W. 'Nor I, till I saw what home is like without her, murmured Clement. 'And isn't she beautiful, too? added Lance; 'it is quite nice to lie and look at her at work. Don't you think her much better looking than Alda? 'If handsome is that handsome does, said Clement.
However, Felix had been allowed an hour from his business for that very purpose, and he simply said, 'Nonsense, Edgar, I shall take Robin down. Wilmet submitted, though with a great pang. She had no assurance that she should not break down, and a crying match at the station oh no! It might make Bobbie roar all the way.
'You should not laugh at it, Felix, said Wilmet, a little hurt: for indeed her mother's needle and her own were too well acquainted with the carpet for her to like to hear it contemned. Felix and Cherry both felt somewhat called to order, as if their mistress had come home again; and Cherry was the first to break silence by inquiring after Wilmet's studies at Brighton.
'No organ! and for me! repeated Lance, impressed almost as if the 'unchanging sun his daily course' had 'refused to run; but it rather frightened him, for he added, 'Am I very ill, then? 'Not now, I hope, said Wilmet, tenderly, and possessing herself of his wrist; 'you are so much better to-night. He looked wistfully into her face. 'What's the matter with me? he said.
On her return, she was dropped at Bexley, where her sisters were greatly edified by her sketch-book, a perfect journal in clever scenes and groups, like the 'Voyage en zig-zag. Two of the gentlemen seemed always in waiting on the graceful outline that did duty for Alda; and indeed, she gave Wilmet to understand that only the skill that played them off one against the other had averted an offer from each, hundreds of miles from home, when it would have been so very inconvenient!
When Felix was free in the evening, he found Clement dressed, and sitting over the fire in his room so well indeed, that he might have been downstairs, but that he shrank from every one; and that fire had been the fruit of such persevering battles of Wilmet and Sibby with the smoke and soot, that it would have been a waste of good labour to have deserted it. 'Well, Clem, you are better?
It has been so at school; and once, even my father made himself quite ill for a week with having to flog Fulbert for disobedience. It settled him; but he is not like the others Clem and Lance are not any trouble; but I know it will come to it sooner or later; Ful will never mind me or Wilmet till I have done it once. 'And when his strength is equal to yours?
Nay, seeing that even this was too long hence for the 'weary soul, and burdened sore, to look forward to indeed, that the preparation for the interview would be sleep-destroying she said, 'Then you shall see him at once, my dear. Wilmet opened her eyes in dismay.
At that moment Felix's step and knock were at the door. Wilmet went to it, and both her hands were clasped in her brother's. 'My Wilmet, my dear, this is well! Then Alda turned from her glass and understood. 'What? He has spoken? O Wilmet, and you never told me! 'I had not time. 'And what a splendid ring! but it is not a proper engaged-ring. You can't wear it. 'I must! He wishes it.
Should a nurse be sent from the hospital? Wilmet raised her steady sensible eyes, and said she could manage, she was well used to nursing. 'I see you are, he answered, well satisfied, since there were besides the Precentor's housekeeper, who was used to act as matron to the boarding choir-boys, and apparently an unlimited power of Harewoods.
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