Volume I Part 9 (1/2)
Such delicate frock-bodies and sprigged caps for infants; such toilet-cushi+ons rich with patterns, like ingrained pearls; such rolls of lace, with running gossaarden There were also collars with broad white leaves and peeping buds, or wreathing enified snow, or whatever you can think of as most unlike work Then there was a central basket, lined hite satin, in which lay six cambric handkerchiefs, with all the folded corners outwards, each corner of which shone as if dead-silvered with the exquisitely wrought crest and motto of an ancient coroneted fa like the till the excelling whiteness pained ht ”Do tell me where you send theh Street; but she cheated me, and I send them now to the Quaker's, in Albemarle Square”
”You sell them, then?”
”Yes, of course; I should not work else I do not love it”
”They ought to give you a hundred guineas for those”
”I have a hundred guineas already”
”You have!” I quite startled her by the start I gave I very nearly said, ”Then why do you live up here?” but I felt, in tiet four hundred more, and that will take me two years, or perhaps three, unless my voice comes out like a flower” Here her baby-ht!
”Oh, Miss Benette, everything you say is like one of the German stories,--a _Marchen_,[9] you know”
”Oh, do you talk German? I love it I always spoke it till I came to this city”
”What a pity you came!--at least, I should have been very sorry if you had not coht you would like Ger; I was a baby when I caht me over in his arms, and he was just as old then as I am now”
”How very odd! Mr Davy never told ht you here”
”Oh, no! he would not tell you all the good things he has done”
”He has done ood as he can have done to you; but I should so like to hear all about it”
”You rave sweetness of voice and manner; ”and if you are not in tiain I shall be very sorry, for I like to sing with you”
I was not in ti fro reproof from Clo She questioned ed to answer The locality did not satisfy her; she said it was a low neighborhood, and one in which I ht catch all sorts of diseases I persisted that it was as high and dry as ere, and possessed an advantage over us in that it had better air, being, as it was, all but out in the fields My mother was rather puzzled about the whole matter, but she declared her confidence in rateful to her, and assured them all how superior was Miss Benette to all the members of the class I also supplicated Millicent to accoht see the beautiful work
”I cannot go,lady be what you yourself reat liberty; and besides, she could not wantin the class”
But she looked very much as if she wished she did
”I just wish you would ask Mr Davy about her, that's all”
FOOTNOTES:
[8] The idea that Laura Lelioni, the _danseuse_, is altogether fanciful; except the fact that Taglioni in her old age taught deportlish court, and that Laura did the same after she had retired, there is no resemblance between them
[9] A tale, or romance