Could their daily companions, Samuel and Henry, have
learnt the same effrontery, and be deceiving her all this time? No,
no, she could not, would not think it! Assuredly not of Sam! She
was very glad not to see the boys again, and went home with her
pupils, rather heavy-hearted, at eight o'clock, just as Ida was to
put on her white muslin and pink ribbons, and go down after dinner
for half an hour.
There were many kisses at parting, and a whole box of sweets, done up
in beautifully coloured and gold and silver paper, presented to the
little visitors; but it might be supposed that the girls were tired,
for there was a fretful snarling all the way across the park, because
Elizabeth insisted that the gifts should be called bon-bons, and the
others would hear of nothing but goodies. Nobody looked at the
beautiful evening sky, nor at the round red moon coming up like a
lamp behind the trees, nor at the first stars peeping out, nor even
at the green light of the glow-worm--all which were more beautiful
than anything Ida had shown them, except perhaps the hothouse
flowers; and at last two such cross ill-tempered voices sounded from
Bessie and Annie, that Christabel turned round and declared that she
should not let the sugar-plums be touched for a week if another word
were said about them.
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