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"Really, Uncle Oliver, for a man of your age and good sense " "Thank you for that admission, Lavinia," said Mr. Carter mockingly. "Go on." "I was about to say that you seem infatuated with this boy, of whom we know nothing, except from his own account. To my mind his story is a most ridiculous invention." "Mr. Pitkin, did any one enter your store just after Philip left it to inquire after him?"
Feeling assured that my boys were quite at their ease and not likely to balk and act like wild rabbits, as is sometimes the case with children when they find themselves among strangers, and seeing nothing that they would be likely to fall out of or into, except a great bowl of lemonade arranged in a bower that represented a well, we came away, Lavinia Dorman sniffing in the spectacle like a veteran war-horse scenting powder, and enjoying the gayety, as I myself should have done heartily if it had not been for the boys.
They did their best; but it was soon evident to Lavinia that in some unguarded moment the impetuous Mat would yield to the spell and go gambading away for a ride sans duenna, sans habit, sans propriety, sans everything.
The Flower of Spain inhaled a deep breath of smoke, which he expelled in deliberate globes. "Oh, don't! Oh " Lavinia exclaimed, an arm before her eyes. Mochales shifted easily from his seat and apparently in the same instant the bull crushed the stool to splinters. "Bravo! Bravo!" Anna Mantegazza called again, and the man bowed until his extended hat rested on the ground.
Latham's compliments to Miss Dorman." "What luxury!" exclaimed Miss Lavinia, turning out the flowers upon the table in the tea room where she kept her window garden, "and how pale and spindling my poor posies look in comparison. Are these from the Bluffs?" "Oh no, from Newport," replied Sylvia.
If Aunt Rebecca had shown any regret at the thought of Jane Lavinia's departure, Jane Lavinia would have foregone New York on the spot. But Aunt Rebecca only said coldly, "I guess you needn't worry over that. I can get along well enough." And with that it was settled. Jane Lavinia lived in a whirl of delight for the next week. She felt few regrets at leaving Chestercote.
Use your handkerchief!" "Billy, your stocking is coming down!" "Reggie, you must wait, girls should be helped first." The boys certainly looked comfortably and humanly handsome in their white cheviot sailor suits, loose blue ties, black stockings and pumps. They really are good-looking children. Lavinia Dorman, who is candour itself, says so.
Miss Lavinia sat with her hands folded in her lap over a collection of the smaller gifts of the afternoon and her eyes looked far away cross the Ridge, dim in the failing light, while her stern old face took on softened and very lovely lines. Rose Mary stood near to help her into the house and Everett leaned against a post close on the other side of the rocker.
Tea was over. Betty cleared away and Lavinia at her request to be correct at her command, sang, keeping her eyes fixed on the old lady and so to speak singing at her. Before long the aged dame was mopping her eyes, and when Lavinia had finished the pathetic ballad she stretched out both her wrinkled hands towards the girl and in a quivering voice said: "Thank you, my dear.
Mr. Rushton growls. "You won't then I will." "Perhaps the time, and the subject of conversation, might aid you," says Miss Lavinia, who is nettled at Verty, and thus is guily of what she is afterwards ashamed of. "A good idea," says the Squire; "and I am pleased to see, Lavinia, that you take so much interest in Verty and Mr. Roundjacket." Miss Lavinia blushes, and looks solemn and stiff.
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