FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90  
91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   >>   >|  
said Belle Tristram; "for I am certain father and mother would not like us to wear jewelry while we are so young." "Well, then," said Maggie, "I will give them to you when we all meet at Aylmer House. You must take them; you know you promised you would. You will hurt me most frightfully if you don't." As Molly and Isabel certainly did not wish to hurt Maggie, they remained silent, and during the rest of the walk the three girls scarcely spoke. Meanwhile Cicely and Merry entered the Manor House and waited impatiently for the return of their father and mother. "We must get everything extra nice for them," said Cicely to her sister. "I do think it is so wonderfully splendid of them to send us to school." The sun had already set, and twilight had come on; but it would be quite impossible for Mr. and Mrs. Cardew to arrive at the Manor until about ten o'clock. What, therefore, was the amazement of the girls when they heard carriage-wheels in the distance! "Father and mother could not possibly have done their business and caught the early train," said Merry in some excitement. "Who can be coming now?" The next moment their doubts were set at rest, for Aneta Lysle entered the hall. "I came to-day after all," she said. "Auntie thought it would be more convenient. You got my telegram, didn't you?" These words were uttered while her two cousins, in rapture and delight, were kissing her. "No, no," said Merry, "we got no telegram; but, oh, Aneta! we are glad to see you." "Here's the telegram on the hall-table," said Aneta, and she took up a yellow envelope. This was addressed to "Cardew, Meredith Manor." "Yes, I know this must be from me," said Aneta. "But why didn't you open it?" "Well, the fact is," said Cicely, "father and mother were in London, and the rest of us were out on a picnic. But it doesn't matter a bit; you've come, and the sooner the better. Oh, it is nice to see you again! But how tall you are, Neta, and how grown up you look!" "I am seventeen, remember," said Aneta. "I don't feel grown-up, but auntie says I look it." "Oh, come into the light--do," said Merry, "and let's see you! We've heard so very much of you lately, and we want to look at your darling face again." "And I want to look at you both," said Aneta in her affectionate manner. The servants had conveyed Miss Lysle's luggage into the house, and now the three girls, with their arms twined round each other, entered the sa
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90  
91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

mother

 

Cicely

 

father

 
entered
 
telegram
 

Cardew

 
Maggie
 

uttered

 

picnic

 

London


Meredith
 

delight

 

rapture

 

kissing

 

envelope

 
yellow
 

cousins

 

matter

 

addressed

 
affectionate

manner

 
servants
 

conveyed

 

darling

 

luggage

 

twined

 

sooner

 
jewelry
 

seventeen

 

remember


Tristram

 

auntie

 

convenient

 

twilight

 

Isabel

 

arrive

 

frightfully

 

impossible

 

school

 

return


impatiently

 

scarcely

 

waited

 

wonderfully

 

splendid

 

remained

 
silent
 

sister

 

doubts

 

promised