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Jasmine had no love for gems, but she would like to gain one of the lockets containing the great crest of her mother's people, her own ancestors. But if she lost it, she would be the last girl to fret. She had as little ambition in her as had Hollyhock herself.
Hollyhock whisked her up in a hurry, petting and cuddling her all the time. A row of baskets hung just outside the kitchen door. Hollyhock chose one, placed a warm bit of felt at the bottom, put in a lump of butter for Jean to lick, fastened her down securely in the basket, and was off and away, back to Ardshiel. By that time the other girls had fully carried out the commands of their liege lady.
'I saw that you hated them, my child. 'Did you notice that, Mrs Macintyre? How wonderful you are! 'No, my dear baby. But I, who equally hate being kissed, saw what you were enduring in a noble cause. It may come right in the end, Hollyhock. We must hope for the best. 'Oh, but you are a darling! said Hollyhock, flinging her arms round the head-mistress's neck. 'Oh, but I love you!
In the end Aunt Cecilia pronounced the girl quite well, and desired her to get up and dress. 'But I the reeling in my head, said Hollyhock. 'That will pass, after you have had a nice warm bath and put on one of your pretty frocks. 'Oh, but, auntie, I do want to hear the news. 'You shall hear it after you are dressed. I don't tell exciting news to little girls who lie in bed.
'Why should a young maid talk so ignorant? Ye 'll be a' richt yet, lassie; but there, ye 're lonesome, my bonnie dearie. 'Suppose, now, you had been me, Duncan, what would you have done? said Hollyhock suddenly. 'Why, gone to Ardshiel, of course. 'Duncan, I hate you. You 're another traitor.
'I know how to behave to Dumpy Dad, and that's all I care about. Nothing further was said to Hollyhock, but she noticed that Lady Jane Carden was speaking to another friend of hers, and glancing at Hollyhock with scant approval as she did so. It seemed to Hollyhock that she was saying, 'That's not at all a nice or polite little girl.
It was sent me as a punishment, and I 'm not going to say to any one how I got it; but I 've come here, my own Dumpy Dad, to tell you, darling, that your Hollyhock will not return on Saturday with the four other Flower Girls. It's right, and I 'm content. Good-bye, daddy; good-bye. I 'm struggling at that school, and in a fight you often get a scar.
Rebecca was weeding the hollyhock bed When marvelous thoughts came into her head. Miranda was wielding the rolling pin And thoughts at such times seemed to her as a sin. How pretty the hollyhock rosettes look from down here on the sweet, smelly ground! "Let me see what would go with rosetting.
This was quite sufficient for the brave Scots lass. She made up her mind and acted accordingly. Meanwhile Hollyhock, a little before half-past eleven o'clock, had risen very gently, and carefully adjusted her habit and her little scarlet cap, which she was fond of wearing when she rode with Dumpy Dad.
'There's Jasmine, that's me; there 's Gentian, meaning the little gray-eyed girl in the corner; there's Rose, who always will be and can be nothing but Rose; there's Hollyhock; there's Delphinium. Delphinium is hard to say, but Delphy is quite easy. 'And I suppose you think, said their father in his half-humorous, half-serious voice, 'that you were really baptised by those names?
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