Page 95 (1/1)

It was so e that this did not greatly startle Aurelia, and Lady Belamour continued: "There, child, you have done your duty well by those little plagues of mine, and it is Mr Wayland's desire to e of circuuineas, the largest suirl had ever owned; and as visions arose of Christifts to be bestowed, the thanks were so warht, the soft eyes so sparkling, that the great lady was touched at the sight of such simple-hearted joy, and said, "There, there, child, that will do I could envy one whom a little makes so happy Now you will be able to s home his bride; or--who knows?--you ht Aurelia, as if Mr Belae, for I am sure I have not yet seen thetutoress stood between Fay and Letty on the steps to see the departure, her cheeks still feeling Aing tears to her eyes at the thought how soon that carriage would be at Carminster Yet there were sweet chains in the little hands that held her gown, and in the thought of the lonely old , for Amoret was missed; and the two children were unusually fretful and quarrelso over the new toys which Brother A profusion It was strange too see the differencerather than meet a look of vexation, and would coax the others into iood humour There was reaction, too, after the excitement, for which the inexperienced Aurelia did not allow At the twentieth bickering as to which doll should ride on the spotted hobby-horse, the face of Letty's painted wooden baby received a scar, and Fay's lost a leg, whereupon Aurelia's endurance entirely gave way, and she pronounced thehty children, and sent them to bed before supper

Then her heart sht listless and sad, though she hardly knehy, longing to go up and pet and coes, but withheld by the remembrance of Betty's assurances that leniency, in a like case, would be the ruin of Eugene