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THE MISDEEDS OE AURA PLAISTOW. 189
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I. She Was But Nineteen; And Nineteen Do...
voice " Do sounded you think like it a earl shout y ? " , said in a , or hmise rather where slionted all , the Aura doors ; for were her
listed , and where no one spoke above their breath . " "We always get ' * up I severel sh at o five uld . hav It Mary e was thoug six was ht this her five morning mother too earl ' s . " child y for ; the Tom servants and Margaret , " said
were Mary , the father y . ' s . " How can they get breakfast ready at such an hour ?" 66 breakfast when
But we never have any fixed breakfast . We we we like generall , and y there drink is m always ilk and hot water water ; and for milk those and who bread like and tea . butter But
are " soon Do you got , mean you know to say . " you have no regular breakfast hour ?"
asked Mrs . Delane . late in " at We meals get have , what well no we and regular can good and , any we eat thing have by , them " ourselves Aura then laug together unless hed . some ; " If if w we of the are are
children we will come and sit , with us . "We all do , just as we like , and no one interferes with the others . That is the best way of getting
that Tom on , " I It , he think forced is must a — very to don make speak p ' leasant t you a b stand , y Tom the _hoiise by dead ?" Aura and silence sometime a very that charming prevailed so why famil not , and now y , feeling " ? said
" But not very . well calculated for ordinary , life or for well bred le" said Mrs . Delane , handing Aura her tea ; it was strong
tea peop with , only a few drops of cream in it . "More milklease ! " said Aura .
, p " Oh Cream , but , " I will suggested have milk the , lad please y , sternl ! " said y . Aura offence , in her to unconscious Delane
way , and I ring with the her bell sunny ? " smile Without —of waiting itself an * for an answer Mrs , . she rose .
" May she and said rang noi " More sily , milk as she Jane did everything lease ! " as ; if and she when had been Jane at appeared home . , , p
Now , neither of those , two natural delegates of the maternal authority , the Misses Delane , dared have rung them that rather bell unbidden for what ,
was or have not asked on the for table what . The was order not g of iven Mrs to . Delane , ' or s management was been found bold h to it
not sever even e , and the no departed one had master yet of the establishment enoug , who , oppose if report ; said truehis wife had frowned and frozen , chilled and crossed into
the his servants grave fire , . ask , . That No for one rul any e at thing had the - been Hollies not made on the was when t allowed able Mrs , or . Delan to give ring an e was the order bell a tender to , stir the when she
brideand she had never swerved from it ; not even now had she felt grown , then up at daug Aura hters ' s indiscretion and a son no meditating pen of chronicler matrimony she would can . What fairl have y
describe . Had she been a woman of weak nerves fainted . As it was she set herself to rebuke , and she determined to
to make it in earnest .
The Misdeeds Oe Aura Plaistow. 189
THE MISDEEDS OE AURA PLAISTOW . 189
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/45/
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