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"Please, Janetta says, will you stay for a little minute or two till she comes back again? "I have never seen you before, have I?" said Margaret, smiling at the slim little girl with the delicate face and great blue eyes. "You are Tiny; I have often heard of you. Do you know me?" "Yes," said Tiny. "You are the beautiful lady who sends us flowers and things Janetta's friend." "Yes, that is right.
"I cannot see that I have done her any injury at all; and I really do not know how I can repair it," said the girl, with a cold stateliness which ought to have warned Sir Philip that he was in danger of offending. But Philip was rash and warm-hearted, and he had taken up Janetta's cause.
"Then I need not explain," he answered drily, though still with that flush of annoyance on his face. "Perhaps if you think over what you have heard of that boy's antecedents, you will know what I mean." It was Janetta's turn to flush now. She remembered the stories current respecting old Mr. Brand's drinking habits, and the rumors about Mrs. Wyvis Brand's reasons for living away from her husband.
There was a little smile upon her face, as though she were not at all displeased at the confession. But a cold chill crept into Janetta's heart. "Has it been a scheme a plot, then? Did you suggest to him that he should come and pretend that he was a stranger." "Oh, Janetta, don't look so solemn! No, I did not suggest it.
She always is afraid of spoiling the moral: I never knew such a conscientious person in my life. I am sure, as mamma says, she sets an excellent example." And then Nora balanced herself on the loose wire of the fence, which made an excellent swing, and poising herself upon it she took off her hat, and resigned herself to waiting for Janetta's return.
"My dear, he made me, I dared not cross him. He made me suffer, and he made the children suffer if ever I opposed him. What could I do?" said the poor woman, twisting and untwisting her thin hands, and looking piteously into Janetta's face. "I was obliged to obey him he was my husband, and so much above me, so much more of a gentleman than I ever was a lady.
"There, don't be vexed, my dear child," and he laid his hand tenderly on Janetta's shoulder, "nobody blames you; and your friend erred perhaps from over-affection; but Miss Polehampton" with energy "is a vulgar, self-seeking, foolish old woman, and I won't have you enter into relations with her again."
Lady Ashley, on her side, was pleased with Janetta's demeanor. She liked the plainness of her dress, the quiet independence of her manner, and the subdued fire of her great dark eyes. She opened proceedings in a very friendly way.
Margaret was dressed completely in white, with long white ribbons floating amongst the dainty folds of her attire; but the white dress, exquisitely as it was fashioned, was less becoming to her than usual, for her face had lost a little of its shell-like bloom. She turned at Janetta's words and surveyed herself a little anxiously in a long glass at her side.
If his heart had been throbbing and his head burning as Janetta's were just then, he might have known how to answer the question. "You have come for Julian, I suppose?" she said, a little coldly. "Yes in a minute or two. Won't you let me rest for a few minutes after my walk in the broiling sun?" "Oh, certainly; you shall have some tea, if you like.
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