She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside
Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly
have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond
measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before
them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a
lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving
out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. ToC
The household of the worthy carpenter, it may be conceived, was thrown into the
utmost confusion and distress by the unaccountable disappearance of the two
boys. She looked at him gravely and squinted. He did
not like it. While the girl kept
the patient from dwelling upon his misfortunes, whatever these were, he himself
would have to keep the girl from brooding over hers. "To be sure he has!" returned Mrs. Quarter-staves, bludgeons,
brown-bills, lanterns, swords, and sconces were alike shivered; and, to judge
from the sullied state of their habiliments, the claret must have been tapped
pretty freely. Go to your sister, and do not quit her till all is over. This one was Henry Esmond, that one the
melancholy Marius, and so forth and so on; never any villains. "Where did you learn the song I heard just now?" he demanded, in an
authoritative tone. The old lady clearly read his state of mind, for the apparently irrepressible
dimple peeped out. I really am enjoying it.
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