Pursuit of a Parcel
““Don’t you think he’s nice, Simmy?”
The letter to her sister Fanny having been completed, Miss Simcox was now engaged on one to her sister Maud. Fanny was unmarried, but Maud was the wife of Mr. Henry Tulkinghorn, headmaster of Wrestleford Grammar School. Henry was earnest, zealous, and extremely modern. But Maud was a dear. She had five children of her own, and mothered three hundred boys as well, but she had always leisure and interest to spare. To her Miss Simcox had just confided that she c...onsidered Lady Maddox was being severe—“and, though I do not like to say so, worldly. Delia is a dear affectionate child, and Mr. Rossiter a very, very charming young man—”
She looked up from the words with what came very near to being a blush.
“My dear child—”
Delia was gazing at her in a beguiling manner.
“Oh, Simmy, don’t be discreet! It’s so dull! If you’re never going to say what you really think because Cousin Leonora or somebody mightn’t approve, you might just as well be dead and buried.”MoreLess
The letter to her sister Fanny having been completed, Miss Simcox was now engaged on one to her sister Maud. Fanny was unmarried, but Maud was the wife of Mr. Henry Tulkinghorn, headmaster of Wrestleford Grammar School. Henry was earnest, zealous, and extremely modern. But Maud was a dear. She had five children of her own, and mothered three hundred boys as well, but she had always leisure and interest to spare. To her Miss Simcox had just confided that she c...onsidered Lady Maddox was being severe—“and, though I do not like to say so, worldly. Delia is a dear affectionate child, and Mr. Rossiter a very, very charming young man—”
She looked up from the words with what came very near to being a blush.
“My dear child—”
Delia was gazing at her in a beguiling manner.
“Oh, Simmy, don’t be discreet! It’s so dull! If you’re never going to say what you really think because Cousin Leonora or somebody mightn’t approve, you might just as well be dead and buried.”MoreLess
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