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'And I see you are going out for the day. He glanced at the lunch preparations. 'Do you know Loughrigg Tarn? He turned to Nelly. 'Oh, yes! Her face glowed. 'Isn't it beautiful? But I don't think George knows it. She looked up at him. He smiled and shook his head. 'I have a cottage there, said Farrell, addressing Sarratt. 'Wordsworth said it was like Nemi.
Here, in a box above, we spied Mrs. Pierce; and, going out, they called us, and so we staid for them; and Knipp took us all in, and brought to us Nelly; a most pretty woman, who acted the great part of Coelia to-day very fine, and did it pretty well: I kissed her, and so did my wife; and a mighty pretty soul she is. We also saw Mrs.
Her eyebrows were unmistakably blackened, her lips unmistakably strengthened; and Nelly saw at once that her guest was in a very feverish and irritated condition. 'Are you alone? said Cicely, glancing imperiously round her, when the disrobing was done. 'Bridget is here. 'What are you going to do this afternoon? 'Can't we have a walk, you and I, together? 'Of course we can.
Scarcely had the lines been let down than fish were fast to them. Harold and the other men soon had trout, from three to six pounds, lying on the ice beside them, but Nelly was obliged to call Pearson to her assistance, and the fish, when brought to the surface, was found to be over twenty pounds in weight. An hour's fishing procured them a sufficient supply for a week's consumption.
They was playin' right there on a pile of pole-wood 'Gene's brought in from the woods and ain't got sawed up into stove-lengths yet. I didn't want to take no chances; maybe they wouldn't ha' moved quick enough when their papa yelled to them. No, ma'am, I made 'em come in, and here they'll stay. Nelly, she's out there, walkin' round and round watchin' 'Gene.
But presently there was a stifled sob in the darkness; and Hester knew that Nelly was thinking of those irrecoverable weeks of which Bridget's cruelty had robbed her. Then presently bedtime came, and Hester saw her guest to her room.
Her incoherence vanished as she grasped at a practical consideration. "But let Milly take you up stairs and get your things off," she said with an air as of one who solves problems. "Are you truly Cothin Nelly?" Joy lisped. "All wight; come thee my twee." Though she couldn't recognise me as the cousin of a few weeks earlier, the child was eager to claim me as a new friend.
Nelly came up breathlessly, laden with her own paraphernalia. Farrell at once perceived that she was pale and hollow-eyed. But her expression was radiant. 'How kind of you to come! she said, looking up at him. 'You know I've had good news splendid news? 'I do indeed. I came to ask, he said gravely. 'He's out of it for a bit? 'Yes, for three weeks! 'So you can take a rest from worrying?
Perhaps their absence accounted for the extra gaiety of our party; I had never seen Constance and Nelly so full of spirits, and Kenneth and Captain Gates seemed bent upon having 'a real good time of it, as they expressed it. Hugh kept them a little in check at dinner; but when they joined us in the drawing-room afterwards, I saw they meant to be as good as their word.
Nelly recovered, at first slowly but cheeringly, latterly with a doubt and apprehension creeping over her brightening prospect until, all too certainly and hopelessly, her noon, that had been disturbed with thunder-claps and dashing rain, was shrouded in grey twilight. Nelly would live, but her limbs would never more obey her active spirit, for she had been attacked by a relentless malady.
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