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Tilly: not to speak of other, less intimateacquaintances.
HE ADMITTED HE WAS AT
HIS WITS END TOKNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HER. Again, as he looked and listened, he
understood Marysdiscomfort and embarrassment. Then after all it must beJohns
health that was causing him anxiety. Marys next letter bore the heading
Yarangobilly, and ran:YOU SEE WHERE I AM NOW. Something in this reflection
seemed to flick John.
Tilly had originally stood high on Marys list. Indeed she
even confessed toa relief at their truancy. Yourmarriageable man instinctively
fears not being able to live upto the fair singers generosity.
And, belonging
to the class of those who pre-indulge, Tillyhee-hawed at full lung-strength. As
he crossed the verandah Mary came rustling out of the dining-room.
I INTEND TO
STITCH A ROSE INHER BONNET, AND TEACH HER HOW TO DO HER HAIR. Is one to go
blind and dumb because a fool is under onesroof?
And pray do you mean to imply
that every one who does not mock andjeer is devoid of sense? Without faith in a
life to come, how endure,stoically, the ills that here confronted us? The shock
of the encounter drove the semblance of a hearty greeting outof Mahony.
When
Emmy shepherded the little girls to their nursery, he turned toJohn.
HE
ADMITTED HE WAS AT HIS WITS END TOKNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HER.
Few or none march
together the whole way.
Her attitude, for example, to the subject under
discussion.
Gods ways had never been, never would be mans ways. STILL, WILLY
HAS HAD SO MANY FANCIES IN HIS DAY, ITHINK LOUISA NEEDNT TAKE THIS ONE TOO
SERIOUSLY.
Ontwo occasions afterwards, I found him there.
WE OTHER LADIES FELT
OUR NOSESQUITE PUT OUT OF JOINT. Through the apartments of her new home she
swept like a whirlwind .
She looked mysterious, but also, if he knew his Mary,
a trifleuncomfortable.
I haveneeded neither to diet myself for a gouty
constitution, nor to coddlemyself in flannel. As if a porpoise could get inside
a basin! Lizzie would not find her newposition a bed of roses. Thedrawing-room
spelt visitors; and he had looked forward to pipe andbook.
PANTA REI is the
eternaltruth: SEMPER IDEM the lie we long to see confirmed. Tilly had
originally stood high on Marys list. Thencame that unfortunate evening at
ERNANI.
Down the passage came the tones of a voice that seemed
strangelyfamiliar. Through the apartments of her new home she swept like a
whirlwind . For if ever there was a person particularabout paying debts, its
you. Phayre, aprominent member of Melbourne society.
THEY NEVER WANTED ME WHEN
I WAS AMONGTHEM; WHY ON EARTH SHOULD THEY MISS ME NOW? All my life, love, I
have preferred thecompany of ELDERLY gentlemen.
Your friend Lizzie is a
veritable Leyden jar.
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