Volume I Part 20 (1/2)
”Oh!” I cried, ”hoish I had known that”
”Why so, my dear boy?”
”Because I would have asked her what he is like,--I do so want to know”
”She does not admire him so wonderfully, Santonio says, and soon tired of his instructions I suppose the fact is she can get on very well alone”
”But I wish I had asked her, sir,” I again said, ”because we should be quite sure about the conductor”
”But you forget Miss Lawrence was at the festival, Charles, and that she saw you there Come! my boy you are not vain”
”No, sir, I don't think I ahed!”
”Yes, Master Auchester, because you could be no more vain than I am”
”Why not, Miss Benette?”
”Because we could neither of us be vain, side by side with our tone-le-heartedness that I was obliged to look at Davy to see how he bore it It was very nearly dark, yet I could make out the lines of a smile upon his face
”I am very proud to be called so, Miss Benette; but it is only a name in my case, hich I am well pleased my pupils should amuse themselves”
”Master Auchester,” exclaimed Miss Benette, without reply to Davy at all, ”you can ask Miss Lawrence about Monsieur Milans-Andre, if you please, for she is co to see my work, and I think it will be to-morrow that she will come”
”Oh, thank you, Miss Benette! I suppose Miss Lawrence said that to you when Mr Davy called me away to him?”
”I did not call you, Charles; you came yourself”
”But you kept me, sir,”--and it struck ht not to have been touched upon; so I felt aard and kept silence
I was left at home first, and proree to permit me I was hurried to bed by Clo, who had sat up to receiveMillicent, with the unreasonableness which is exclusively fraternal; but Clo informed me that my mother would not permit her to stay out of bed
”And, Charles, you ht, but eat this slice of bacon and this egg directly, and let s and bacon! I , but it was all I could do, and she then presented me with a cup of hot barley-water
Oh! have you ever tasted barley-water, with a squeeze of le to the violin? I drank it off, and was just about to make a rush at the door when Clo stopped one up to bed; stay until I can light you with my candle And come into my roo your brush down”
I wasme upstairs with a stately step But softly as we passed along, Millicent heard us; she just opened a little bit of her door, and stooped to kiss own ”I have chosen my instrument,” I said, in a whisper, and she sue the nextwhen I came down late and found only Millicent left to make one out to walk But I wondered, when I ca Clara the hour fixed for Miss Lawrence's visit,--though, perhaps, was ht, she did not know herself I need not have feared, though; for while I was lying about on the sofa after our dinner, having been infor, in caareth with a little white note directed to ”Master Charles Auchester”
”I aht to show it to ht it was no servant in any fa else”